Qualcomm, GlobalFoundries extend chip partnership; Biden's cyber diplomat faces the Senate; and Forrester on the state of the metaverse.

House votes to pass CHIPS and Science bill; Intel's revenue decline; and social sustainability tops environmental sustainability, IDC reports.

Forrester guides cybersecurity leaders amid layoffs; Snowflake improves its Data Cloud platform; and VMware extends its multi-cloud workforce.

Taxpayers were initially on the hook for $700 million in 2019, then $1.9 billion in late 2020, and now at least $5.6 billion.

There’s more work to do and dollars to spend to shore up our collective security posture.

“The Nokia announcement is part of an effort to make open RAN a political issue,” Monica Paolini, principal analyst at Senza Fili, told SDxCentral.

Nokia appears to have been spooked by a trio of Chinese companies in particular — Kindroid, Phytium, and Inspur — that are restricted by the U.S. government.

Despite slipping deadlines, Nvidia posted record revenues in the second fiscal quarter of 2022, which saw revenues climb 68% year over year to $6.5 billion.

CISA director Jen Easterly announced the launch of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) at Black Hat 2021.

“This needs to be, even at the head of state level, something that’s brought up in every conversation between presidents and prime ministers as a problem that can no

"U.S. export control applies to some of our products. It doesn’t apply to a lot of our products, so nothing changes when the deal closes,” Arm CEO Simon Segars

Successfully disrupting ransomware campaigns and infrastructure will require “a step beyond” the traditional public-private partnership, Talos’ Matt Olney said.

Building security into the software design process will save “thousands of dollars,” White House advisor Anne Neuberger said during an RSA Conference keynote.

Dell and VMware reached a spinoff deal; Cisco dropped $100 million on clean climate tech; and Druva bagged a $147 million investment, $2 billion valuation.

Google and Siemens teamed up on industrial AI; Nvidia's $40B Arm acquisition hit a UK snag; and Stellar Cyber added threat into to its XDR.

The latest regulatory test seeks to determine the national security implications of allowing Nvidia acquisition of Arm Holdings to move forward.

Also on Tuesday, the NSA alerted Microsoft to more critical vulnerabilities that hackers could use to remotely compromise Exchange email systems.

Intel has signed on to DARPA's SAHARA and DPRIVE projects to develop custom ASICs for the U.S. government.

Rural U.S. carriers most impacted by the “rip and replace” mandate have been lobbying for a government reimbursement to offset the costs of swapping out equipment considered insecure.

It's unclear how the program might factor into network operators’ determinations or mitigate bans some countries have imposed on Chinese equipment.

Politics routinely bubble up around open RAN discussions and muddy the technological benefits of open, disaggregated, software-driven networks.

A discussion with panelists from the U.S. Department of Defense, Huawei, a conservative think tank, and a security researcher got heated quickly.

The U.S. government’s quantum research budget, which addresses a national security issue, is $30 million, or just 0.0006% of the federal budget.

"Contracting with the federal government is a privilege, not a constitutionally guaranteed right," U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant wrote.