TSMC’s equipment requirements have nearly doubled in just eight months as AI demand drives an unprecedented fab expansion, yet its 2026 CapEx budget has risen by only around 15%.
Hybrid bonding, the copper-to-copper joining technique that replaces solder microbumps in 3D chip stacks, is in high-volume production on logic and freshly postponed on memory.
GoPro is merging with optical-photonics company Starman Optical in a deal worth at least $285 million. This move will wipe out the company’s $92 million outstanding debt, let it start manufacturing its cameras in the U.S., and expand its portfolio to include optical transceivers for AI data centers.
Russian national faces US charges over a phishing campaign that allegedly infected 80,000 PCs and stole credentials and personal data
The leak was traced to a major ID-authentication service based in Louisiana, serving major companies like Hertz, Target, and the United States Coast Guard.
Electronic Frontier Foundation asks California governor to veto bill that would require online age verification — EFF argues A.B. 1709 would result in privacy-invasive checks and step on First Amendment
These investments aren’t massive one-time expenses — data center operators are expected to upgrade their expensive GPUs and related infrastructure every four to six years, as new semiconductor technologies arrive on the market.
If your gaming rig spends most of its life doing nothing, a pair of startups would be willing to pay you something close to minimum wage for its downtime
Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies’ AI agents into running arbitrary code. This supply-chain attack, done via using data in public llms.txt guidance files, illustrates the dangers of data becoming code.
Despite rumors, there is no evidence that Chinese makers of lithography tools can produce immersion lithography scanners in quantity.