Now that Pat’s got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs Navin Shenoy, who leads Intel’s data center chip business, will leave the semiconductor titan on July 6 amid a significant corporate restructuring, it was announced today.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Microsoft’s market capitalization hit $2 trillion for the first time. GeekWire reports: The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant trails only Apple among the world’s most valuable companies. Apple became the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach the $2 trillion mark in August. Fellow Seattle-area giant Amazon, valued Tuesday at $1.77 trillion, is also approaching the…

Study finds a whole sea of outdated third-party libraries There’s a minefield of security problems bubbling under the surface of modern software, Veracode has claimed in its latest report, thanks to developers pulling third-party open-source libraries into their code bases – then never bothering to update them again.… …read more Source:: Register

Temperature-tracking satellites are monitoring sweltering heat above the Arctic Circle. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: While bitcoin leaves a visible trail of transactions on its underlying blockchain, the niche “privacy coin” monero was designed to obscure the sender and receiver, as well as the amount exchanged. As a result, it has become an increasingly sought-after tool for criminals such as ransomware…

I node what you’ll do in summer 2023 The surge in semiconductor investment continues to accelerate, with New York-based GlobalFoundries breaking ground on a new $4bn Singapore facility that will produce chips for legacy nodes.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

BEC attacks getting are more dangerous, and smart users are the ones who can stop it. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Even just to remind the world there’s life beyond Google and DuckDuckGo Having rebelled against Google’s web hegemony with a privacy-focused browser and a crypto token-based monetization system, Brave Software opened a second competitive front on Tuesday with the beta launch of Brave Search.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Iran alleges that the U.S. State Department seized the websites of some of the country’s major news networks, hours after a message on several state-run Iranian news websites claimed they were “seized by the United States Government,” the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network said in a statement on its website. From a report: The…

If you’re looking for a reminder of how powerful the tiny microcontrollers that run our everyday gadgets have become, check out the work impressive work [Audun Wilhelmsen] has done to get DOOM running on the Nordic Semiconductor nRF5340. This is the sort of Bluetooth SoC you’d expect to find in a headset or wireless keyboard,…