Still cheap enough to be third world

Samsung Electronics has decided to build an advanced US chip plant in Texas.

Prevent embarrassing reviews

Fruity cargo cult Apple has found a wizard way of preventing users posting bad reviews for its Apple Podcasts apps.

Mobile revolution grinds to halt

Third quarter smartphone sales are stalling due to decelerated production schedules, Gartner beancounters reported.

Taxpayer supporting shareholders

Japan is allocating about $5.2 billion of its fiscal 2021 supplementary budget to support advanced semiconductor manufacturers.

Its a good to be the King

A security researcher has publicly disclosed an exploit for a new Windows zero-day local privilege elevation vulnerability that turns a hacker into an admin.

Looks like Apple sales will be much lower after all

Chip components supplier IQE projected a 40 percent plunge in its annual core profit, as the British firm's smartphone-making clients, which include Applem  place fewer orders due to supply chain problems.

Not the sort of dreams anyone would want 

Boeing's manufacturing woes appear to be getting worse after engineers investigating a litany of manufacturing defects on the 787 Dreamliner found even more problems than they expected. 

Apparently the company has been “lobbying” politicians

Five members of Congress called for federal consumer-privacy legislation after a Reuters report published last Friday revealed how Amazon has led an under-the-radar campaign to gut privacy protections in 25 states while amassing a valuable trove of personal data on American consumers.

Users were getting too used to the old system 

Qualcomm has announced some changes to how it brands its Snapdragon chips, and getting away from the three-digit numbering system.

Time for longer sentences 

According to data collected by Microsoft's network of honeypot servers, most brute-force attackers primarily attempt to guess short passwords.