Daily Tech News 10 May 2026

• NASA is planning a rescue mission for its Neils Gehrels Swift Observatory - a.k.a the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer - which is sinking fast and will re-enter the atmosphere later this year without a boost. (Spaceflight Now)
  
  Which is precisely what they plan to give it.
  
  
  
• Also sinking fast and being closely tracked by NASA is Mexico City. (The Guardian)
  
  Large parts of the city are subsiding by more than two centimeters a month. This causes problems.
  
  

• CPanel's terrible, horrible, no good very bad week. (Copahost)
  
  CPanel issued patches for three new vulnerabilities over the weekend, after 44,000 CPanel servers were hacked in the past week. (My own server was affected, but I managed to get it locked down before the wave of ransomware hit. And I have off-site backups.)
  
  Since each server can host hundreds of websites, 44,000 hacked servers could affect a lot of people.
  
  
  
• With mid-range smartphone sales dropping as memory prices bite, Mediatek and Qualcomm have cut their production orders with TSMC for 5nm and 4nm chips. AMD immediately took up the slack. (WCCFTech)
  
  All current AMD CPUs (and GPUs) are built on TSMC's 5nm and 4nm processes - they don't use 3nm at all, and 2nm is set to arrive at the end of the year with Zen 6 - and AMD is selling every CPU they can churn out.
  
  
  
• I mentioned that Intel's stock recently hit a 20-year high. You know who bought the dip? The federal government. (WCCFTech)
  
  The Trump Administration converted a Biden-era grant - which came with conditions attached that Intel couldn't meet - to a straightforward share purchase.
  
  At the bottom of the market.
  
  Oh, and Intel is currently in talks to manufacture chips for Apple 25% cheaper than TSMC.
  
  
  
• Fiber optic cables can listen in on your conversation. (Science)
  
  If someone shines a laser down the cable and monitors the results very, very carefully.
  
  
  
• Micron is shipping a 245TB SSD. (Nerds.xyz)
  
  Not one of the tiny M.2 drives, but a still compact U.2 2.5" model.

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