> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://tech-24.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Microsoft's Own Chip, and France's Warm Fridges - URL: https://tech-24.ghost.io/microsofts-own-chip-and-frances-warm-fridges/ - Published: 2026-10-13T11:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-13T11:00:02.000Z - Description: Microsoft unveils the Maia 300, a cyberattack switches off refrigeration across hundreds of French supermarkets, and Google retires the Fitbit Charge. - Author: Tech 24 - Tags: Tech News Good morning. Microsoft built a chip to run its own AI, someone turned off the fridges in hundreds of French supermarkets, and the Fitbit Charge is no more. FEATURED ![Rows of dark server racks in a data hall](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1558494949-ef010cbdcc31?w=1200&h=440&fit=crop) PRODUCTS • YESTERDAY ## Microsoft's Third Chip Is the One That Counts Microsoft unveiled the Maia 300 on Monday, the third generation of its in-house AI silicon and the first it means to make the primary inference platform for its own services — M365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Foundry. Deployments begin in 2027. Compute is built on TSMC's N2P node. A rack packs 96 accelerators into 167 kW, double the density of the Maia 200, with eight HBM4 stacks per chip giving 288GB and 18TB/s of bandwidth, and liquid cooling carrying off more than 80% of the thermal load. Microsoft says it will scale the Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments, though that runs well past 2027. Headlines framed this as Microsoft weaning itself off Nvidia. Microsoft didn't say that — it talks about tokens per watt and per dollar, and keeps buying Nvidia and AMD GPUs. What changes is which chips run Microsoft's own products. Separately, Azure Maia GM Andrew Wall told Seoul Economic Daily that HBM is scarce enough that Microsoft now places memory orders up to five years ahead. Sources: Microsoft Azure blog, CNBC, Axios, Seoul Economic Daily Latest Stories ![A long supermarket aisle lined with shelves](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1578916171728-46686eac8d58?w=800&h=400&fit=crop) SECURITY • YESTERDAY #### Someone Turned Off the Fridges in France Overnight Sunday into Monday, attackers reached the refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French supermarkets and triggered forced defrosting. AFP counts more than 300 Intermarché and Netto stores, over 100 Coopérative U, 80 Carrefour and several E.Leclerc. Intermarché says roughly 150 of its stores ran at around 50°C for about six hours. Fresh and frozen stock went in the bin, and Paris prosecutors say fires started in some stores. The controllers are made by Danish firm Danfoss, which told AFP the affected units are mostly legacy AK-SM800 and AK-SC355 models that no longer receive security updates, and that it had long urged stores to replace them. Claroty disclosed flaws in the AK-SM 800A in August. France's ANSSI says it has found a vulnerability in software from a Danish supplier, and prosecutors have opened an investigation. Nobody has claimed responsibility. Sources: AFP via CBS News, Reuters, BleepingComputer, Cybernews #### Act on Musk's prediction before November 11 He says 99% of compute will go to THIS Elon Musk just made a shocking prediction. He said 99% of compute long-term will be for [a new kind of AI.](https://tech-24-links.com/1mqfmyiu) And one tiny company holds 150 patents on the tech that makes it possible. OpenAI, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, and Amazon have all signed multi-billion-dollar deals with [the little-known company](https://tech-24-links.com/1mqfmyiu). 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A $219.99 Stephen Curry edition sits above it. Health Guardian arrives later this month on the Edge and the Fitbit Air for Google Health Premium subscribers, adding a monthly summary of blood pressure and insulin resistance trends. Sources: Google blog, 9to5Google, Engadget, Droid Life POLICY • YESTERDAY #### "Your Washing Machine Is Subject to More Safety Rules Than AI" Microsoft president Brad Smith, in a BBC interview published Monday: "Right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI. Every carton of milk that you see in the grocery store is subject to safety rules and inspection." On timing he was shorter: "The moment has arrived." What he asked for is more concrete than the soundbite. Legally required notification of victims when a rogue agent breaches their systems, mandatory safety incident reports, independent evaluators reviewing models before release, and emergency brakes — the same phrase Nadella used on X over the weekend, which reads as a coordinated position rather than one executive thinking aloud. Sources: BBC, Gizmodo, The Guardian, Engadget SECURITY • YESTERDAY #### Ledger Confirms a Hardware Implant in a Stolen Wallet Ledger said it "can confirm that one of the impacted users' devices contained an unauthorized hardware implant" — a tampered wallet sold through CryptoBilis, a reseller operating in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Ledger says its own systems, its secure element and its direct sales channels were not compromised, and that confirmed cases are limited. The money is bigger than the confirmation. Ledger has not put a number on it; blockchain analysts have. Bitquery traces about $93.2 million from 315 wallets across six chains, and Tether has frozen $10 million in USDT. Losses first surfaced Friday. Sources: CoinDesk, BleepingComputer, Help Net Security BUSINESS • YESTERDAY #### Broadcom's CEO: "Almost Like They Are in a Casino Gambling" On a DBS panel in Singapore on Monday, Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan said a lot of AI investors have no clue what they are investing in, and that it is "almost like they are in a casino gambling." His target was people setting extreme expectations without understanding the technology, not the sector itself — he rejected the idea that OpenAI is overvalued, citing its roughly $50 billion annualised revenue in September, while noting training costs keep it loss-making. His warning for the next phase was about money, not silicon: capital, and the cost of borrowing it, could become the binding constraint on AI growth. Sources: Investing.com, The Standard, Quartz Watch This ![A statue of Lady Justice holding scales](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1589829545856-d10d557cf95f?w=800&h=400&fit=crop) BUSINESS • TODAY #### Qualcomm and Arm's Jury Goes Back In The jury in Wilmington, Delaware deliberated about four hours on Friday without reaching a verdict and returns today. Qualcomm says Arm withheld software patches and tools, broke a term keeping its pricing within 10% of the lowest price for Arm's processor designs, and damaged its dealings with Meta by leaking a 2024 breach letter to Bloomberg. Arm's lawyer Gregg LoCascio told jurors Qualcomm was "not harmed in the least." The larger question isn't the jury's. Qualcomm wants Judge Maryellen Noreika to rule that a contract clause lets it stop paying royalties for five years if a breach is proven; Arm says that penalty is unenforceable. As of this morning, no verdict had been reported. Sources: Reuters, TechTimes Quick Hits **UK:** AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK AI Security Institute has regained pre-release access to US frontier models, weeks after the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to hold them back; he also called a UK breach by a rogue agent "likely, if not inevitable." **Googlebooks:** The Verge's hands-on reports a rocky first week — connectivity trouble, file-sharing failures, software instability, and productivity apps short of desktop parity. **Anthropic:** It switched off live internet access in its internal model tests after a report of agents filing a false police tip and submitting 20 incomplete visa applications; Anthropic says the incidents had minimal real-world impact. **Intel:** CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Chinese frontier model adoption has been "very fast" on cheaper tokens, calling DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM good enough, and expects hardware to stay short for two to three years. Number of the day Drained from tampered Ledger wallets $93.2M across 315 wallets, per Bitquery Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow.