Lucian Armasu

Microsoft patched 93 security vulnerabilities for the month of August, including two new wormable bugs.

GlobalFoundries announces partnership with Arm to develop 3D Arm-based chips for high-performance data center and consumer applications.

Red Hat, now part of IBM, joined the RISC-V Foundation to develop support for the open-source instruction set architecture in its Linux distributions.

Samsung announced the Exynos 9825, a refresh of the Exynos 9820 SoC. It's built on the company's 7nm EUV process for significant power efficiency improvements.

The Pentagon suspends awarding of the $10 billion contract as the new Defense Secretary investigates if the selection process has been rigged to favor Amazon.

Cisco has agreed to a settlement with whistleblower James Glenn, the U.S. federal government and multiple state governments over its surveillance technology.

After firing over 100,000 employees, IBM is facing discrimination lawsuits accusing the company of targeting older workers to be "trendy."

Steam developers have proposed some changes to the Linux kernel that would reduce the CPU load for multi-threaded Windows games that run on Linux via the WINE-based Proton utility.

TSMC has quietely introduced the performance-enhanced N7P and N5P versions of the N7 and N5 nodes, respectively.

A new report said that Google has been building its own servers with AMD Epyc CPUs as it considers a switch to AMD over Intel.

Alibaba announced its first-ever RISC-V-based processor of its on design, Xuantie 910. It plans to outsource production of the chip to local Chinese firms.

Huawei said that it will continue to develop its Arm-based Kunpeng server CPUs and will invest $436 million in the ecosystem around it over the next five years.

Attorney General William Barr has restarted the war on cryptography with a renewed call to to tech companies to implement encryption backdoors.

The U.S. DOJ announced that it's reviewing the big tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple, over antitrust issues.

Bloomberg reported that Google has settled for $13 million with the people whose data the company stole with its Street View cars between 2008-2010.

A Russian FSB contractor called SyTech has experienced a data breach and the leaked data revealed all of its projects with the Russian spy agency.

Chrome 76 will stop websites from detecting whether or not a user is in Incognito Mode.

BlackBerry's leading AI-based antivirus product defeated by embarrassing universal bypass.

President Trump told the press that he may look into the $10 billion JEDI contract that is supposed to be awarded to either Amazon or Microsoft next month.

Despite Huawei's promises of an Android replacement, an exec has said the Hongmeng OS isn't for smartphones and that Huawei devices will continue using Android.

Devs have built a feature that aims to protect apps running in the Linux kernel against side-channel attacks on Intel CPUs using Hyper-Threading.