• Scammers are using Google ads to inject fake phone numbers directly into major websites' search bars.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Don't call the number in the search bar.

• Texas Instruments is investing $60 billion in new and upgraded fabs in the US.  (TI)
  
  TI is one of the major chip manufacturers owned and operating in the US, along with Intel and Micron.  TI doesn't make flashy expensive stuff like desktop CPUs and GPUs, but they make a lot of lower-end embedded and analog chips.
  
  
  
• Starship 10 could fly as soon as June 29.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Unless it doesn't.
  
  
  
• Hobbyists have enabled AMD's FSR4 upscaling software on previous generation graphics cards that don't support it.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  FSR4 depends on specific hardware in the new 9000-series GPUs, and hacking it to work on older cards does cut performance fairly significantly.
  
  
  
• There's another local privilege escalation bug in Linux.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  I wouldn't let untrusted third parties on a Linux server these days without trapping each one in their own sandbox.
  
  
  

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