Topco Scientific and its Japanese subsidiary will lead a group of nine international suppliers at SEMICON Japan 2025 in Tokyo. The event runs from December 17 to 19, 2025. The focus is on critical materials and equipment for front-end processing, packaging, and smart energy systems.
Square Enix’s third-largest shareholder, 3D Investment Partners, has published a damning 100-page critique of the company. The report blames poor sales, high costs, and failed strategy, calling for a “fundamental reassessment” of management.
The UK government has rejected a £1.8 billion ($2.3B) cost forecast for its national digital identity scheme. Officials have delayed a crucial consultation to 2024 and are considering IDs for 13-year-olds.
Moody’s Chief Economist Mark Zandi warns that aggressive borrowing by AI firms is a “mounting potential threat.” The 10 largest AI companies are on track to issue over $120 billion in debt this year alone, a pace that exceeds the dot-com era even after adjusting for inflation. This time, the debt is
Therapists are facing a new challenge: clients who arrive with AI-generated diagnoses and treatment plans. This trend is creating tension in sessions, as patients often trust the chatbot’s instant advice over their therapist’s clinical expertise.
Uber has launched a new advertising program called Uber Intelligence that lets marketers target users based on granular ride and delivery data. The system, built with LiveRamp, uses a “clean room” to combine advertiser data with insights on where users go and what they eat. This comes as Uber projec
Google executives have publicly denied a report claiming ads are planned for the Gemini AI chatbot in 2026. The company currently has “no plans” for ads, but its history and the sheer scale of free users make a future change seem inevitable.
A new £14m package of joint initiatives aims to strengthen UK-German quantum technology collaboration. The funding includes a £6m R&D call and £8m for Glasgow’s Fraunhofer Centre. This builds on recent bilateral efforts in space and supercomputing.
Petco has confirmed a data breach that exposed highly sensitive customer information, including Social Security and driver’s license numbers. The breach stemmed from a misconfigured software setting that made files accessible online. The company serves over 24 million customers, indicating a potenti
A major new subsystem for live kernel patching has been merged for the upcoming Linux 6.19 release. The Live Update Orchestrator (LUO) uses a kexec-based reboot to update hypervisors while preserving VM memory states. This is a big deal for minimizing cloud service disruption.
