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As this year's buyers rush to beat Trump's tariffs Korean chipmaker SK hynix has told investors the future looks bright thanks to strong demand for its memory products and early delivery of its first HBM4 samples....

Argues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothing to advance American semiconductor leadership....

WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?! A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!)...

DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software The US Justice Department on Thursday weighed into an antitrust legal war that alleges algorithmic price fixing by healthcare services by MultiPlan and its health insurance clients....

Crew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET The China-aligned FamousSparrow crew has resurfaced after a long period of presumed inactivity, compromising a US financial-sector trade group and a Mexican research institute. The gang also likely targeted a governmental institution in Honduras, along with other yet-to-be-identified victims....

Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run deeper than reported, and the jobs are heading to India....

Warning of possible problems sparks controversy: Was it OverDAtop? Rachel Kroll has clarified the Atop alarm: Turns out it was just a weird little bug, and it's probably already been fixed....

Concerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job Keeping critical tech out of the hands of US adversaries is about to get harder for the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) with the Trump administration seemingly poised to slash its already meager budget by $20 million....

Researchers say 'proactive' approach is needed to combat global cybercrime Here's one you don't see every day: A cybersecurity vendor is admitting to breaking into a notorious ransomware crew's infrastructure and gathering data it relayed to national agencies to help victims....

All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo freighter, the NG-22, is being delayed indefinitely after engineers confirmed the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) had sustained damage in its shipping container....

Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously Tech vendors are awaiting the outcome of a constitutional battle to decide the fate of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the federal Department of Education to be dismantled....

Screenshot shows company head unhappy, claiming 'real CVE is pending' CrushFTP's CEO is not happy with VulnCheck after the CVE numbering authority (CNA) released an unofficial ID for the critical vulnerability in its file transfer tech disclosed almost a week ago....

'This was not good dog food' Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has taken to his YouTube channel to explain Redmond's missteps with Windows Longhorn and the background to the company's failed attempt at an XP follow-up....

Britain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat The former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales is getting 250 million ($323 million) to start making silicon carbide semiconductors, a year after the sale of the site was approved by UK government....

Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain just how dumb the USB-to-PS/2 adapters that shipped with Microsoft Mouse devices really were....

As if living in Croydon wasn't bad enough The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South London suburb of Croydon....

Data stolen included checklist for medics on how to get into vulnerable people's homes The UK's data protection watchdog is dishing out a 3.07 million ($3.95 million) fine to Advanced Computer Software Group, whose subsidiary's security failings led to a ransomware attack affecting NHS care....

If coworkers cranking out biz strategies and fussing over balance sheets seem robotic, you ain't seen nothing yet Microsoft on Wednesday introduced out two "reasoning agents" it claims can handle research and analysis projects....

Desktop users get free access - assuming they're cool with logging in and limited speeds Vivaldi has become the latest browser to include a virtual private network (VPN) option with its product, working with Proton VPN to up user privacy....

Beating a dead horse to a 4-4 beat Napster, the original file-sharing troublemaker that shook the music industry, is about to change hands once again in yet another attempt to drag the brand into relevance....

Reveals it dramatically improved IOPS and throughput' of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but has been able to dramatically' improve the performance of its storage systems with a homebrew automated data tiering system....

Confirmed: 12,000 people let go over 12 months Rumours of swingeing layoffs at Dell were not exaggerated, a statement The Register offers after reading the hardware giant's most recent annual report which reveals its workforce shrank by 12,000 in the year to January 31st, 2025....

Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters? Comment Microsoft has walked away from negotiations to lease two gigawatts worth of datacenter capacity in the US and Europe, and has deferred and cancelled other datacenter leases, according to a new report from investment bank TD Cowen....

So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret military plans has now publicly released the messages....

MORSE to pay -- .. .-.. .-.. .. --- -. ... for failing to meet cyber-grade A US defense contractor will cough up $4.6 million to settle complaints it failed to meet cybersecurity requirements on military contracts and knowingly submitted false claims for payment....

Victims' details at risk after criminals download 9,000 files from court database Australian police are currently investigating the theft of "sensitive" data from a New South Wales court system after they confirmed approximately 9,000 files were stolen....

It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land It's International Datacenter Day, when people around the world get together to share their love of faceless concrete edifices....

Bad news about the Linux system monitor may be on the way Veteran sysadmin and tech blogger Rachel Kroll posted a cryptic warning yesterday about a popular Linux system monitoring tool. Maybe it's better to be safe than sorry....

Now the only nonsense printed out will come from the user Months after releasing a patch that left some printers spouting gibberish, Microsoft is issuing another update to deal with it....

Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies The US government has initiated another crackdown on Chinese businesses skirting chip export bans, adding a few dozen new names, and offshoots of repeat offenders, to the entity list....

Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center....

Meanwhile, Apple is lining up '$1B' of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra kit Schneider Electric plans to spend $700 million through 2027 to expand its US operations and bolster the supply of its power equipment necessary to sustain the proliferation of AI datacenters....

Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience? The world's biggest brands have benefited from influencer marketing for years - now the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has hopped on the bandwagon to preach two-factor authentication (2FA) to the masses....

At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE Britain's telecoms regulator could authorize satellite-to-smartphone services in the UK before the end of this year....

Spending watchdog says digital professionals need seat at top table to ensure 'transformation' The parlous state of UK government legacy IT systems is hampering attempts to adopt AI, a report from MPs has warned....

PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost Aardvark, a novel machine learning-based weather prediction system, teases a future where supercomputers are optional for forecasting - but don't pull the plug just yet....

Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission Elon Musk may have launched hundreds of rockets and sent his own Tesla Roadster into space, but rival billionaire Jeff Bezos will soon be able to boast he's built a moon rover....

As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens's US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations....

Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation The lower house of India's parliament on Tuesday passed the nation's budget for 2025, after making a last-minute change that removed a tax on digital ads....

Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right? Two academic organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday for the allegedly unlawful withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University and associated demands for policy changes....

Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI Pat Gelsinger, once CEO of VMware and later Intel, has announced he's taken a new job as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo, a Colorado-based startup offering technology tools for churches and other faith-based organizations....

Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent A Maryland judge has dealt another blow to Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit, temporarily blocking the US Treasury, Dept of Education, and Office of Personnel Management from sharing union members' personal data with the billionaire's minions....

The man who helped make Sammy the biggest name in modern tellies Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee died this week in the Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul after a cardiac arrest. He was 63....

An impressive recreation of the Windows golden age The ReactOS project is putting out a point-release for the first time in a few years, and this insanely optimistic effort is making progress....

Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod Oracle Cloud's denial of a digital break-in is now in clear dispute. A infosec researcher working on validating claims that the cloud provider's login servers were compromised earlier this year says some customers have confirmed data allegedly stolen and leaked from the database giant is genuine....

We have one, yes - but what about a second death ray? Still shopping for the perfect death ray, the US Army has tapped Huntington Ingalls to build and test a prototype laser weapon designed to fry drones in flight....

User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org Europe's German-speaking SAP user group is reporting a sharp uptick in organizations signing up or planning to sign up for the application vendor's preferred cloud migration route....

Joe Tsai says speculative datacenter builds could exceed actual demand Alibaba is warning of a datacenter spending "bubble" amid the rush to build infrastructure in anticipation of an AI feeding frenzy....

Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there? You aren't alone. Microsoft veteran Scott Hanselman posted a list of some more variants that could be used to do the same thing....

16,000 stolen records pertain to former and active mail subscribers Infosec veteran Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned fame is notifying thousands of people after phishers scooped up his Mailchimp mailing list....