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In an interesting branding move, Intel has renamed its Programmable Solutions Group “Altera,”, and reestablished it as an independent company. Intel’s acquisition of Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion was one of the tech industry’s largest deals at the time. Now, the newly independent Altera, led by CEO Sandra Rivera and COO Shannon Poulin, aims […]

Updated March 8th, 2024: The release date of the Backbone One – Prestige Edition was changed from March 19 to March 13 shortly after publication, the story has been updated to reflect this. Further details regarding the price and contents of the bundle have also been added. Mobile gaming peripheral manufacturer Backbone has announced the […]

Researchers at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) have introduced a new technique involving ‘self-destruct’ chips.  The technology was presented alongside several other innovations aimed at thwarting sophisticated hack attacks. One of the most challenging attacks to defend against involves a hacker gaining physical access to a system’s circuit board. As IEEE Spectrum reports, […]

Hackers are, once again, impersonating major tech brands to trick people into downloading malware to their computers, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from the Zscaler ThreatLabz recently discovered a new campaign, in which unidentified threat actors created countless websites whose URL is almost identical to actual websites belonging to the likes Google, Skype, and Zoom.  […]

European cloud provider Scaleway has launched the world’s first range of RISC-V servers in the cloud, which it says is a “firm commitment to technological independence” in a market that is increasingly seeking sovereignty over semiconductor production. RISC-V is a free and open instruction set architecture developed at the University of California at Berkeley that […]

They say size doesn’t matter, but clearly it does when some Google Pixel users are reporting that their virtual keyboards are suddenly shrinking. Over on the r/GooglePixle subreddit, as flagged by 9to5Google, a suite of Pixel phone users popped up to say that suddenly Gboard – Google’s official Android virtual keyboard – turns tiny and […]

There have been tons of leaks and rumors about the Intel Core i9-14900KS processor traveling around the tech grapevine; now those same rumors may confirm that we’ll have a launch date, one that’s coming up much sooner than you’d think. The Intel Core i9-14900KS has been tipped for a March 14, 2024 release, according to […]