ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders [Thu Apr 18 2024]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 18 April 2024 ***************************************************************** ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so Won't somebody please think of the shareholders * Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages On-Prem * HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions * Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam * Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan * Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry * America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway Damn you, network virtualization * ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer * Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert * Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's voided $56B pay package Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? * Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I * ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line * Logitech intros free tool for ChatGPT prompts... plus a mouse with an AI button For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked * Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks' Security * Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant * Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug * Japanese government rejects Yahoo! infosec improvement plan Just doesn't believe it will sort out the mess that saw data leak from LINE messaging app Software * Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? You can trust us, we're the good guys * Intel's neuromorphic 'owl brain' swoops into Sandia labs Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI * AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux * Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them * Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial' * OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck * NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types * Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history The answer is not to hide from ML, but to be honest about it * Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss Not all at once, of course * Indian PM's 25-year roadmap laid out with help from AI AI is so good at drawing pictures and driving cars, why not let it govern a country? Offbeat * Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished * NASA confirms nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 * Whistleblower cries foul over alleged fuselage gaps in Boeing 787 Dreamliner Company rejects claims as 'inaccurate' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2024 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: