Jim Johnson has been named head of Intel’s Client Computing Group, headlining a list of changes Intel made Monday to its leadership team. As part of the moves, Intel announced the departure of Michelle Johnston Holthaus, the former co-chief executive and head of Intel Products. Johnson had served as the interim head of Intel’s CCG as Holthaus took on senior roles. Now, his official title will be senior vice president and general manager, responsible for the PC and edge ecosystems, Intel said. Johnson has worked at Intel for 40 years, including in the Technology and Manufacturing Group and the Networking and Communications Group. Intel also has named a new head of its Data Center Group: Kevork Kechichian who joins as executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group (DCG). Kechichian formerly was the executive vice president of engineering at Arm. Intel also said that Naga Chandrasekaran, executive vice president and chief technology and operations officer of Intel Foundry, will expand his role to include Foundry Services. The promotions and new hires come at the tail end of management shakeups dating back to last year, when Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger was forced out of his role as chief executive and replaced with Lip-Bu Tan, a prominent leader in the EDA industry. After Gelsinger left, Michelle Johnston Holthaus and chief financial officer David Zinsner were named co-CEOs. Former Intel exec Michelle Johnston Holthaus.Mark Hachman / IDG After Tan joined, Holthaus — formerly the executive vice president and general manager of Intel CCG — was then asked to lead Intel’s products team, which also included the Client Computing Group. Holthaus served more than 30 years at Intel, and will remain a strategic adviser to the company over the coming months, Intel said. Johnson will oversee the fall launch of Panther Lake, the company’s next CPU architecture, as well as the Intel 18A manufacturing process that will form its foundation. Tan, meanwhile, is looking for customers for both Intel’s 18A and the subsquent 14A manufacturing process, which may decide whether Intel remains in silicon manufacturing or not. Read...

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You probably already know that a password like 123456 is bad. It’s so simple and predictable that even other humans can easily guess it. But do you know all the other passwords that are just as weak? AI search analytics firm Peec AI recently looked at a small portion of stolen password data, dating from 2019 until now. And while its analysis yielded similar results to what security researchers have already uncovered from far larger amounts of data, the findings proved the point: people really suck at creating their own passwords. In Peec AI’s slim data set of about 100 million unique passwords, common themes we’ve seen time and time again popped up once more: Simple number strings: 123456 is always a top weak password—about 6.6 million in this data slice. Trailing behind is 123456789 at 2.2 million, with 111111 coming in at almost one million. Easily guessed: Password, qwerty, and abc123 all came close to one million uses each. Common names: English language speakers leaned most on familiar names, with this data’s top 10 coming in as Michael, Daniel, Ashley, Jessica, Charlie, Jordan, Michelle, Thomas, Nicole, and Andrew. Four-digit years: 2013, 2010, and 1986 appeared the most frequently, with years in the 1980 range the most popular. Millennials likely haven’t changed old, outdated habits of adding a memorable number string to strengthen passwords. Sports: People love football, baseball, and soccer. Soccer teams in particular get tapped for password duty: Liverpool, Chelsea, and Barcelona cropped up as often as 70,000 times. Band names: Apparently this set of hacked accounts had a lot of blink-182 fans (84,000!). People’s tastes run the gamut, though, because Justin Bieber made this particular list. Fictional characters: DC fans have strong representation in this data set, with Superman appearing 86,900 times. Batman came in second with over 50,000 uses. Seasons: Everyone’s favorite time of year is apparently summer. This chart shows how a fast consumer-grade PC could crack a password. Dedicated hackers can choose to devote more resources to their efforts.Hive Systems Guessable and known passwords can be cracked fast by a computer, sometimes instantly if they’re particularly weak—and pretty much everything in the list above is. And usually, most people who use 123456 or michael will reuse passwords, which leaves them vulnerable to credential stuffing attacks, too. (That is, when an attacker will try your leaked or stolen username and password on other services.) Security experts (and yours truly) recommend unique, random passwords for this reason. Ideally, you want a mix of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Switch to this style of password, and even a shorter eight-character one theoretically would force a hacker to spend years attempting to crack it. Keeping track of unique strong passwords for dozens (or hundreds) of accounts is difficult, which is why a password manager comes in clutch. Different types exist, ranging from the simple but convenient services built into Google and Apple’s ecosystems, cloud-based providers like Dashlane and Bitwarden, and local apps that store an encrypted vault with all your details to a single device. A password manager may sound less secure to some ears, but trust me—it’s a heck of a lot more secure than guessable words, phrases, or number strings as passwords. Even if they’re not common ones or the exact types found on this list, you’re still scraping the bottom of the security barrel. Read...

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Is there a way that Intel can be saved? Former Intel chief executive Craig Barrett thinks so, and it isn’t the way the company’s former board members suggest. Intel should have a number of its customers invest a total of $40 billion in the company to ensure a steady supply of chips, the company’s former chief executive wrote over the weekend. Barrett’s comments come as current chief executive Lip-Bu Tan is scheduled to meet with President Trump on Monday at the White House, according to a report. However, the meeting doesn’t appear on Trump’s public calendar. Intel faces numerous crises. On one hand, the company has already announced the layoffs of thousands of employees, dating back to last year. Although Intel solicited billions from the U.S. government as part of the CHIPS Act, it has warned that it might exit chip manufacturing altogether if it can’t find a customer for its 14A manufacturing process. The 14A process follows the 18A process, the foundation of Panther Lake, which Tan has said remains on track. But Trump has also demanded that Tan step down, citing Tan’s ties to a number of Chinese firms in his role as a venture capitalist. In the interim, former Intel chief executive Craig Barrett has weighed in with a list of bombastic thoughts on the matter. Barrett, writing in Fortune, is the 86-year-old former CEO who took the reins at Intel in 1998, succeeding the iconic Andy Grove. Barrett oversaw the Pentium III and Pentium 4, as well as the early days of the Xeon processor. An investment into the future In Barrett’s mind, customers should be investing in Intel to ensure a stable (and American) supply of semiconductors. “Neither Samsung or TSMC plan to bring their state of the art manufacturing to the U.S. in the near term,” he wrote. “U.S. customers like Nvidia, Apple, Google, etc. needs and should understand they NEED a second source for their lead product manufacturing due to pricing, geographic stability and supply line security reasons.” Barrett suggested that Intel’s customers invest a “competitive” $40 billion into the company. “Where does the money come from? The customers invest for a piece of Intel and guaranteed supply,” Barrett wrote. “Why should they invest?  Domestic supply, second source, national security, leverage in negotiating with TSMC, etc.  AND IF THE USG GETS ITS ACT TOGETHER, they catalyze the action with a 50% (or whatever number Trump picks) tariff on state of the art semi imports. If we can support domestic steel and aluminum, surely we can support domestic semiconductors.” (Emphasis Barrett’s.) Fortune, which has apparently dug into its contact list to solicit advice on the Intel matter, previously published an opinion written by former board members arguing that Tan should be fired and the company broken up. “Be serious,” Barrett wrote. “By all means, if you want to complicate the problem, then take the time to split up Intel and make the FFWBMs [the “four former wise board members”] happy but if you’re in the business of saving Intel and its core manufacturing strength for the USA then solve the real problem — immediate investment in Intel, committed customers, national security, etc. Read...

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