The team discusses a new data-protection shake-up in the UK, the latest hurdle in Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm, vulnerabilities in a wide range of routers using Realtek chipsets and the inexorable rise of semiconductor prices. Our Hot Hardware candidate is the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G, a folding phone that could actually catch on.

Here’s a list of routers afflicted by the Realtek vulnerabilities:

https://therecord.media/hundreds-of-thousands-of-realtek-based-devices-under-attack-from-iot-botnet/