Take a Network Break! In this week’s episode our red alert highlights two critical vulnerabilities in RabbitMQ, and we dig into listener follow-up about data centers in space. This week’s news coverage considers Apple’s $30 billion spending pledge to Broadcom, TSCM promising another $100 billion to build even more chip fabs in the US, and... Read more »

TSMC Chips In Another $100 Billion for US Fabs; Can Data Centers Make It In New York?

Network Break

[SPEAKER_A] Take a Network Break! I'm Drew Conry-Murray.

[SPEAKER_B] I'm Jana Johnson.

[SPEAKER_A] It's pledge week here at Network Break. We've got Apple pledging to spend billions more on Broadcom chips and chipmaker TSMC pledging even more billions to build chip fabs in the United States. We're also going to talk about data center moratoriums springing up in US cities and states, announcements from Fortinet, AT&T, Microsoft, AWS, and Palo Alto, TSMC's Q2 results, which were a roaring success, and more.

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[SPEAKER_A] Johnna, kick us off with a red alert.

[SPEAKER_B] Okay, Drew. Well, there were 2,551 new CVEs created in the week ending July 16th and 6,661 updated. Of the new ones, a full 299 were critical with CVSS scores of 9 or more, with 22 scoring 10 out of 10. Two of those belong to RabbitMQ, which is the widely used open source messaging streaming broker, which had, as I mentioned, two CVSS 10 alerts this week. 2026-57211, which covers an input processing flaw that allows an attacker to redirect DNS and SMB requests to a hostile server.

[SPEAKER_A] Yeah, yikes.

TSMC Chips In Another $100 Billion for US Fabs; Can Data Centers Make It In New York?

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

TSMC Chips In Another $100 Billion for US Fabs; Can Data Centers Make It In New York?

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.