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Synopsys Plans 10% Job Cuts After Ansys Deal Closure

2 months ago
An anonymous reader shares a report: Synopsys will lay off about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 2,000 employees, as the chip-design software maker looks to redirect investment towards growth opportunities, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday. The move comes after the company completed its $35 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys earlier this year and missed analysts' estimates for third-quarter revenue in September.

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North Korean spies turn Google's Find Hub into remote-wipe weapon

2 months ago
KONNI espionage crew covertly abused Google’s Find My Device feature to remotely factory-reset Android phones

North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying – by hijacking Google's Find Hub service to remotely wipe Android phones belonging to their South Korean targets.…

Carly Page

AI isn't throttling HPC. It <em>is</em> HPC

2 months ago
Your real problem: 40kW racks, melting datacenters and rising power bills

Opinion  In recent discussions with industry vendor sales/marketing types, I've been hearing that HPC demand is falling off while AI system demand is continuing to increase. I've also seen articles implying that AI is somehow displacing HPC. Huh?…

Dan Olds

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

2 months ago
Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar

Updated  Firefox 145 is out, with more privacy, better profile handling, better image search for Google users… and, almost inevitably, more LLM bot integration.…

Liam Proven