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Tesla has made no secret of the fact that it wants to put fully autonomous cars on roads in the next few years. The company needs the best in hardware and software to make this dream a reality. According to a new report, Tesla is now developing its own chips for self-driving cars. It’s reportedly working with AMD to refine its new chip. This move is being viewed as a decision by Tesla to reduce its reliance on NVIDIA.

Tesla currently sources chips from NVIDIA that are crucial to its Autopilot semi-autonomous driving system. Tesla previously sourced chips from Mobileye, the Israel-based company that was acquired by Intel earlier this year for over $15 billion.

Citing a source familiar with the matter, CNBC reports that Tesla has received back samples of the first implementation of the dedicated self-driving chip. The desire to build its own chip is said to be aligned with Tesla’s wish to be more vertically integrated and less reliant on other companies.

Heading Tesla’s silicon project is Jim Keller, a veteran chip architect who has previously worked at both Apple and AMD. He joined Tesla early last year and is now the head of Autopilot hardware. Keller is reportedly heading a team of over 50 people. Tesla has brought in several AMD veterans after Keller was hired.

Tesla has not officially commented on this report.

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Avast-owned CCleaner is a security app that was used by hackers to spread malware. It’s a pretty popular app with more than two billion downloads. Security researchers from Cisco Talos discovered that hackers breached security to inject malware that was likely distributed to countless CCleaner users. Avast’s investigation reveals that the malware was specifically targeting major tech companies.

The investigation has revealed that this was an Advanced Persistent Threat that was programmed to deliver malicious payload to select users. The server logs show that the payload was sent to 20 machines in a total of 8 organizations.

However, since the logs were only collected for just over three days, Avast says that the actual number of computers that received the payload are likely “at least in the order of hundreds.”

Avast hasn’t made the names of these major tech companies public for “privacy reasons,” but it does say that these companies are based in the United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Japan, and Germany.

Avast is working with law enforcement units to trace the source of this attack. It’s unclear at this point in time if a state-sponsored actor was behind this attack but that’s not a possibility that Avast is ruling out just yet.

CCleaner Malware Targeted Major Tech Companies , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

There are quite a few Xbox 360 titles that can be played on the Xbox One through the magic of backward compatibility. Microsoft has made some of the most popular Xbox 360 titles compatible with its current-gen console over the past few months. The list continues to grow. Fans of the classic Fable Anniversary have been keeping their fingers crossed and they will be delighted to know that Microsoft is working on backward compatibility for Fable Anniversary.

Other titles from this franchise are already backward compatible. Fable II and Fable III are on the list of Xbox 360 titles that can be played on the Xbox One. Fans of the franchise only have to wait for a little more to play the original title as well.

Xbox chief Phil Spencer was asked on Twitter recently if Fable Anniversary backward compatibility remains a possibility. Spencer confirmed that it will arrive, adding that “it’s being worked on now.”

What Spencer didn’t confirm is that when we can expect it to arrive. It may take a couple of months or even more. Only time will tell. So far, all fans can do is keep their fingers crossed for the backward compatible Fable Anniversary to be released sooner rather than later.

We’ll update you when there’s more information about the backward compatible Fable Anniversary for Xbox One.

Fable Anniversary Xbox Backward Compatibility Being Worked On , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

How the anti-abortion movement uses children to legitimize its message.

A lawyer for the facility denied any wrongdoing, claiming the staff’s actions were “reasonable.”