Feds Give Another Chip Maker Subsidy to Build in US Last week the feds announced a subsidy to Taiwan Semi to build multiple chip plants (fabs) in Arizona. This week the feds announced, based on last year’s CHIPS Act, a subsidy to Samsung to build multiple plants in Texas. This creates a lot of construction […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are folks who say that open source is safer than commercial software because, well, it is open source. Their theory is that since, technically, anyone can look at the source (ignoring the fact that you would need to be a trained programmer in whatever language that software is written in and have the time […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The cyber safety review board is similar to the FAA’s National Transportation Safety Board, except that they are investigating Cybersecurity crashes (breaches) rather than airplane or container ship crashes. The board is new. It was created by Executive Order 14028 in 2021. They only convene when requested to by the Secretary of Homeland Security and, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA is going into overdrive on this one and the more I read about it, the more I understand why. On the surface, this is a story of a vendor that many companies trusted who was breached. Kind of old news. Definitely a problem, but nothing unusual. The company that was breached was Sisense and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Administration Announces Preliminary Agreement for New High Tech Chip Factories in Arizona As you may remember, during the pandemic the shortage of chips caused widespread product shortages for everything from phones to cars. Congress passed the CHIPS act to subsidize companies who manufactured chips in the U.S. at a higher cost rather than in less […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI is good and getting better. We already saw a deep fake video fool some EU presidents into thinking they were talking to the head of the African Union. And another deep fake video fooled an accountant at a large European company to wire $25 million to a hacker. Here is another one. The hacker […]
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