Taiwanese chip makers call on government to stockpile helium, liquid natural gas — TSIA pleads for strategic supplies as US and Iran sign ceasefire in Middle East

Taiwan’s semiconductor industry alliance is urging the government to expand its strategic stockpiles of LNG and helium, find alternative suppliers, and restart nuclear power plants to ensure stability during times of crisi…

Russian state hackers are hijacking TP-Link and MicroTik routers to steal Outlook credentials, cybersecurity center warns — APT28 group targets DNS and redirects traffic to attacker-controlled servers

The UK National Cyber Security Centre says that Russian state hackers have been exploiting vulnerable small office and home office routers since 2024 to overwrite their DHCP and DNS settings
…

,
China intensifies efforts to poach semiconductor talent from Taiwan, claims report — international restrictions motivate illicit efforts to obtain talent and equipment

Taiwan’s National Security Bureau claims that China is intensifying efforts to steal semiconductor process technologies and other chip-related know-how from Taiwan as international restrictions get more severe.
…

, ,
Anthropic’s latest AI model identifies ‘thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities’ in ‘every major operating system and every major web browser’ — Claude Mythos Preview sparks race to fix critical bugs, some unpatched for decades

Anthropic’s latest frontier AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, is so adept at finding software vulnerabilities that the lab is holding it back to allow companies and institutions to proactively patch their products against t…

,
Intel joins Elon Musk’s TeraFab project — ‘Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology’

As Intel joins Elon Musk’s TeraFab project, Lip-Bu Tan expects Elon Musk to reimagine the semiconductor industry.

, ,
Indianapolis politician’s home shot at 13 times over data center dispute — police and FBI investigating ‘isolated, targeted incident’ after city councilor backed project

A city councilor’s home has been shot up for allegedly supporting a data center project in Indianapolis. Opposing neighborhood groups condemn the shooting, while the authorities have yet to determine who’s behind the crime…

,
Broadcom to supply Anthropic with 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPU capacity from 2027 — Claude pioneer says its annual revenue run rate has passed $30 billion

Broadcom disclosed in a securities filing on Monday that it’ll supply Anthropic with roughly 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPU capacity starting in 2027.
…

Intel reportedly in talks with Google and Amazon over advanced packaging — major customers could take advantage of EMIB-T later this year

Intel is understood to be in active talks with Google and Amazon to provide advanced chip packaging services for their custom AI ASICs.
…

, ,
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google under investor pressure to disclose site-specific data center water and power consumption — more than a dozen shareholders ask for transparency ahead of annual investor meetings

More than a dozen investors are pressuring Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google to provide detailed data on water and energy consumption at their U.S. data centers.
…

US lawmakers aim to ban export of DUV chipmaking and etching tools to leading firms in China — bipartisan proposal would ban lithography equipment for Huawei, SMIC, and others

Bipartisan group of U.S. senators propose to impose blanket ban on export of advanced DUV lithography and etching tools to Chinese companies known to have worked with China’s military, such as CXMT, Huawei, SMIC, and YMTC….

, ,