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Semiconductors news — Saturday 31 October 2026

27 stories from 4 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.

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  1. FBI Says North Korea Behind $6.3 Billion Binance Hack
    USThe Information

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Saturday that North Korea was responsible for the $6.3 billion theft from crypto exchange Binance, the largest crypto hack in history. The FBI said the agency, working with the U.S. Secret Service…

  2. Yen bond offerings hit record $16bn as AI funding race reaches Japan
    JPNikkei Asia
  3. Time for Japan to develop people who can sell content
    JPNikkei Asia
  4. Grab the award-winning Bambu Lab P1S 3D printer with AMS for $70 off
    USTom's Hardware

    If you have been considering getting into 3D printing, now might just be a good time to take the plunge. The Editor's Choice Award-winning Bambu Lab P1S, bundled with the AMS color printing module, is currently on sale and is available at…

  5. French lawmakers approve $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage, costs $0.65 per gigabyte of content accessed
    USTom's Hardware

    Edit 11/1/2026 4:25am PT: Clarified title to state the bill still has to pass the Senate after being added to the budget. France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in…

  6. Meta Built Humanoid Prototype With Chinese Startup To Ramp Up Robotics Push
    USThe Information

    Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version, as the social media giant steps up efforts to develop robots for people’s homes, according to people familiar…

  7. 'Ghost Students' using AI to apply for student loans with stolen identities, DOJ's Operation Ghostbusters busts $200 million ring
    USTom's Hardware

    The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) just announced indictments resulting from Operation Ghostbusters, which investigated widespread student loan fraud. According to the agency , bad actors used stolen identities to sign up for student…

  8. Japan weighs taxing real estate rental operators living overseas
    JPNikkei Asia
  9. The Billionaire Tax Might Fail—For Now
    USThe Information

    Welcome, Weekenders! Next Tuesday promises to be something of a doozy. At the moment, the Democrats are poised to take back both the Senate and the House of Representatives and clean up nicely in gubernatorial races across the country. And…

  10. Grab a new 3D printer this Halloween weekend, with prices as low as $199
    USTom's Hardware

    This Halloween weekend is the perfect time to think about buying a new 3D printer at a brilliant discount. Spooky season is nearly over, but as we hurtle towards the holiday season, the big names in the 3D printer world have slashed…

  11. ASRock B860 Challenger Wifi Motherboard Review: Entry-level ATX at a great price, with drawbacks
    USTom's Hardware

    Based on the mainstream B860 chipset, the ASRock B860 Challenger Wifi sits on the budget side of Intel's motherboard lineup, and costs a reasonable $149.99 . You get a full-sized motherboard with full support for Intel’s Core Ultra and…

  12. Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%
    USTom's Hardware

    Darkbloom, a decentralized AI inference network that aggregates and sells spare compute capacity from Macs, told its members to expect revenues to fall as token prices continue to drop. According to The Register , the price per million…

  13. This week in Tom's Hardware Premium: October 31, 2026
    USTom's Hardware

    In case you're not yet subscribed to our Tom's Hardware Premium subscription service, here's what you've been missing out on this week. We detail our thoughts on Anthropic's filings pre-IPO, Cadence's new suite of LLMs to power its EDA…

  14. When Electric Cars Were for Women
    USIEEE Spectrum

    At the turn of the last century, the automobile industry was still new and evolving rapidly. In 1898, there were about 50 carmakers in the United States. A decade later, that number had increased fivefold. In 1901, the companies produced…

  15. Intel shifts production capacity from consumer to server CPUs in face of 'unprecedented' AI demand
    USTom's Hardware

    Although the consumer PC market is shrinking and will continue to shrink in the coming quarters, Intel is confident that the overwhelming demand from the AI industry for everything that can compute or store data will offset declines in the…

  16. Developer builds a complete Intel 486 PC emulator in a browser — 100% pure-JavaScript Retro486 includes modular tabs for screen, motherboard, storage, expansion cards, and more
    USTom's Hardware

    Developer Jan de Jager has created a full Intel 486 PC system in a browser. On the e486-web GitHub page , de Jager boasts that the emulator is coded in 100% pure JavaScript. The project’s fuller title is the Retro486 Modular Browser PC …

  17. Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering
    USTom's Hardware

    Reverse-engineering games for converting them between systems is currently a hot topic , and it's getting messier by the day. According to multiple user claims, Anthropic's Claude Code and/or Opus 5.5 model are blocking attempts at…

  18. AI agent used to perform controversial brain surgery on a mouse, Anthropic Sonnet controlled motorized surgery rig
    USTom's Hardware

    Exin Therapeutics, a biotech startup focusing on next-generation neurotherapeutics, claims it has successfully conducted brain surgery on a mouse using an AI agent. Its co-founder and CEO, Gabriel Ocana-Santero, shared the entire procedure…

  19. Veteran Microsoft engineer makes his own RAM from scratch using AI
    USTom's Hardware

    Dave Plummer, former Microsoft engineer and wizard of Task Manager, Windows Pinball, and now TMOG, has an interesting project in his hands once again. After seeing exactly how many zeros were in the price tag for a megabyte of memory for…

  20. TrashBench repurposes a trash 4-kW air conditioner radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC — achieves a shocking 28C on an Nvidia RTX 3080
    USTom's Hardware

    Just like we suspected, our fellow Australian hardware examiner TrashBench is up to shenanigans again. Not too long ago, after putting a graphics card in the "wrong" place for much better cooling results, he's ... thinking bigger, let's…

  21. 3D-printed ghost guns may now have a way to be traced to their source
    USTom's Hardware

    A study published on October 22 in the journal Forensic Science International reports that researchers from Curtin University in Perth, Australia, have developed a forensic method to analyze 3D-printed PLA parts and match them to their…

  22. Tech sleuth claims to have found the oldest GUI application that still works with Windows 11 — CDPLAYER.EXE from Windows NT in November 1992 wins the prize
    USTom's Hardware

    A technology enthusiast claims that the oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 is CDPLAYER.EXE from November 1992. The app had to run on Microsoft’s newest consumer OS without modifications or emulation involved to be chosen…

  23. Japan's foreign caregivers face exam hurdle as grace period ends
    JPNikkei Asia
  24. Thai highland tribe coffee brews following at home and in Tokyo
    JPNikkei Asia
  25. Fatal dog attacks test Hong Kong's ambitions for a pet-friendly economy
    JPNikkei Asia
  26. Thailand looks west after 30 years of struggles over Dawei
    JPNikkei Asia
  27. OpenAI Lowers Fundraising Target–After Decreasing Possible Valuation
    USThe Information

    OpenAI has lowered the amount of capital it is seeking from investors in its latest fundraising round by $10 billion, according to a Friday report by The Financial Times. The company was initially seeking to raise $30 billion at a $1.4…