Qualcomm acquires Autotalks to boost Snapdragon’s automotive safety technology, reportedly for $350-400M

Qualcomm’s longer term bet on the automotive sector as a lucrative customer base for its chips and related communications technology is getting a significant push today: the company announced that it is acquiring Autotalks, a fabless chipmaker out of Israel that builds semiconductor and system-on-a-chip technology to aid in automotive safety; sources tell us Qualcomm…

Elizabeth Holmes, left to her own devices

Critics are flaming the New York Times today for posting what they say is an overly empathetic 5,500-word profile of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes earlier this morning. But writer Amy Chozick is in on the con. In fact, her story may provide the  clearest understanding yet of how Holmes so captivated investors, business partners, and…

New Vulnerability in Popular WordPress Plugin Exposes Over 2 Million Sites to Cyberattacks

May 06, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Users of Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are being urged to update version 6.1.6 following the discovery of a security flaw. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-30777, relates to a case of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) that could be abused to inject arbitrary executable scripts into otherwise benign websites. The…