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AMD goes back to its past as it looks to the future… sounds like a good headline right? But it is not merely a headline, but a reality in that AMD has done what we predicted they would do back in November 2011 when we talked about the direction that AMD was moving in. AMD is putting together an R&D consortium like they had when they were developing the Opteron and a few other products. At the time the think tank involved companies like Motorola, Texas Instrument, IBM, and even Samsung. Now the players are different, but the goal is the same.

AMD has finally signed the predicted license deal with ARM to incorporate some of ARM’s technology into AMD’s APUs. This was a move that we saw coming back in Q3 of 2011. Around the time when Rory Reed took over the helm at AMD we anticipated the shift to mobile computing. It was Reed’s big push at Lenovo while he was there and we did not expect anything less from him at AMD.

Things can change just like that in the work of the online hacktivist. As the group SpexSec popped onto the scene and then… just like that they vanished saying they were leaving the hacking world to become a “whitehat”. Now many are left to wonder what in the world all of this is about. It is true that many groups start and then fade away, why the sudden launch onto the scene with three fairly sizable dumps and then after being pestered by someone called @HEX00010 two of the three members announce their retirement.

There has been another hack of government systems from the sound of things on Your Anon News one of the Anonymous Twitter feeds. According to the post and the pastebin link the dump is a listing of “Passports, Visa’s, etc.” and is the second from the new group SpexSec. The first attack was in retaliation for ignoring security warnings and targeted a single FBI agent, Scott Augenbaum who is the Head of the FBI’s Cybercrime task force according to some information that is available at the time of this writing.