TSMC Weighs a Business It Has Never Run
The DRAM cell has been built the same way for four decades: one transistor, one capacitor, arranged flat on the same plane. The transistor is the switch. The capacitor is…
Germany Warns Lawmakers Their iPhones May Be Compromised
The message arrives as a grey panel on an iPhone lock screen and reads like a fire alarm: Apple has detected activity consistent with a targeted attack, and the phone…
Samsung’s Foundry Bid Gains a Foothold With Cloud Customers
Samsung Electronics said Friday that a hyperscale cloud provider has placed orders on its 2-nanometer line, and that the first gate-all-around chips built on the process are now in mass…
A Pothole in Austin Puts Tesla’s Camera-Only Robotaxi Under Scrutiny
The obstacle was a large pothole filled with water. Tesla’s Cybercab was moving at about 5 miles an hour when it hit, and the vehicle was damaged. A safety monitor…
Intel Asks the FCC for Permission to Keep Its Factory Robots Running
The machine is a cart on wheels, and its job is to carry a sealed pod of silicon wafers from one tool to the next without a human hand touching…
Qualcomm’s Royalty Fight With Arm Waits on a Delaware Jury
For more than four years Qualcomm has been trying to prove that Arm Holdings, whose designs sit inside nearly every smartphone sold, broke the contracts that bind them. That argument…
A Bomb Threat, an Empty Jet, and a Quiet Morning at Ben Gurion
Delta Flight 234 landed at Ben Gurion Airport shortly after 8:25 a.m. local time on Tuesday, and it did not go to a gate. The Airbus A330neo had left New…
Google Blocks Rogue Certificates After Three Country Domains Were Hijacked
Attackers who seized control of three small country domain registries used that access to obtain digital certificates that would let them impersonate Google and other companies online, Google disclosed this…
A Ransomware Hit Silences a Corner of Japan’s Cloud
Around 3:40 a.m. on Wednesday, an automatic shutdown system inside a data center in Shirakawa, a city in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, sensed something wrong and cut the network. By morning,…
Google Pauses Its Open-Source Bug Bounty
For years, Google paid researchers to find holes in the open-source software it maintains. The deal was simple: send in a real vulnerability, get a reward. On October 1, the…
