Monthly Archives: September 2022

CAFC Affirms Dismissal of Arendi’s Second Complaint Against LG After Failure to Follow Delaware’s Initial Disclosure Rules

On September 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Arendi S.A.R.L. v. LG Electronics Inc., authored by Circuit Judge Sharon Prost, affirming the District of Delaware’s dismissal of a patent infringement complaint filed by Arendi under the duplicative-litigation doctrine. The ruling highlights the importance of adhering to…

New wave of data-destroying ransomware attacks hits QNAP NAS devices

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Network hardware-maker QNAP is urging customers to update their network-attached storage devices immediately to protect them from a new wave of ongoing ransomware attacks that can destroy terabytes of data in a single stroke. Singapore-based QNAP said recently that it has identified a new campaign from a ransomware group known as…

AMD is making laptop CPU model numbers simultaneously less and more confusing

Enlarge / AMD’s new naming scheme for Ryzen 7000 laptop CPUs, broken down. (credit: AMD) Even for someone who pays a lot of attention to them, processor model numbers can be hard to parse. Ideally, each model number would communicate information about the chip’s underlying technology and capabilities, making it easy to quickly tell the…

Ethereum Merge may not ‘fix everything,’ but it could boost institutional adoption

As we inch closer to a highly anticipated protocol development for Ethereum, some big institutional players may wonder what “the Merge” could mean for them. The system upgrade, set for September 15, plans to reduce the second-largest blockchain’s energy consumption by about 99% by moving away from proof-of-work, which relies on crypto miners using tons…