From Tom's Hardware: Hana Micron, a South Korean firm specializing in assembly, testing, and packaging (ATP) of semiconductors, is expanding its presence in Vietnam after some of its customers requested the company move production away from China. Because of this, Reuters reports, the company is...

From TechCrunch: President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Elon Musk will co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, the acronym of which spells out DOGE, Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency. The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, and owner of X, will lead the department alongside...

From Tom's Hardware: Valve has finally totally dropped Windows 7 and 8 compatibility with its latest Steam client update, meaning the last holdouts using these operating systems will need to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 (or switch to Linux or Mac) to continue gaming. According to the Steam Client...

From TechCrunch: The future of aircraft may look very similar to today’s superficially — but under the hood (or sitting next to the tailfins) they will likely be quite different. That’s the future NASA is hoping to nurture with five research awards worth $11.5 million.

The Advanced Aircraft...

From PC Mag: DNA testing company 23andMe is laying off 200+ employees, or about 40% of its workforce.

The job cuts are part of a business restructuring to reduce costs, 23andMe says. Along with layoffs, the company is discontinuing new developments to its therapeutics program, which has been...

From Tom's Hardware: AMD's Ryzen 9000 (codenamed Granite Ridge) series, among the best CPUs, has dropped to its lowest-ever prices at Micro Center—listed for up to 28% lower than their launch prices, which should increase AM5 adoption rates.

The market initially ignored Zen 5 at launch owing to...

From The Verge: Boost Mobile has announced it is on its way to meeting FCC coverage deadlines by the end of the year and says it has earned the title of MNO — Mobile Network Operator — rather than MVNO, which is a virtual network operator mainly reselling service from other carriers. Mission...

From CNET: Apple is making it easier for iPhone 16 users to repair their devices by offering a selection of new components as part of its Self-Service Repair program.

The company has added a handful of parts for the iPhone 16 line, including cameras, displays, speakers, the back glass and batteries...

From The Verge: The estate of now-defunct crypto exchange FTX has filed a lawsuit against Binance and its former CEO Changpeng Zhao in a bid to recover $1.76 billion. FTX alleges these funds were fraudulently transferred to Binance, Zhao, and other Binance executives in July 2021 as part of a shares...

From TechCrunch: Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor.

In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed that employee information had been involved in a data breach.

“Amazon and AWS...