Techmeme: How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage — The world is hungry for semiconductors, and not all of them need to be made with cutting-edge technology. The race is on to find older machines that can still crank out chips.

Tweets: @adityapolsani99, @mims, and @mparekh

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Antoine Gara / Financial Times:

Sources: McAfee is in advanced talks to go private in a deal worth over $14B, including $4B in debt, led by private equity firm Advent International — Buyout would be one of largest this year and mark end of company's brief stint on public markets — Antivirus software company McAfee …

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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:

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Source: PR Newswire. More: AlleyWatch

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

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Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:

Bitcoin Cash briefly spiked 4.6% on Friday after a fake PR Newswire press release, which also appeared on Kroger.com, claimed Kroger will begin accepting it — The cryptocurrency rose over 4.6% from $602.63 at around 11:30 UTC to $630.70 in less than 15 minutes after the publication of a fraudulent announcement.

More: Reuters, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Crypto Briefing, The Verge, CoinDesk, The Daily Hodl, Bitcoinist.com, Techaeris, The Block, Cointelegraph, and Mashable

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Gather, which builds metaverse-like environments for offices, events, and conferences, raises a $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures — Gather, a US provider of a metaverse platform, raised $50M in Series B funding. — The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures …

Source: Gather. More: Fast Company

Tweets: @flippnflops, @jowyang, and @joshelman

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

Apple says it has identified and fixed a firmware issue with its T2 security chip, which bricked some Macs while upgrading to macOS Monterey — macOS Monterey was released to the public last month with new features such as Focus modes, Shortcuts, and more.

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