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Best after-dinner mint ever Nvidia may have been served a particularly delicious digestif after dropping a million bucks for dinner at President Trump's Florida home Mar-a-Lago: A reprieve on restrictions of its AI chips to China....

From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos Clearview AI has booted founder and former CEO Hoan Ton-That from its board, just weeks after he stepped down as president....

Can't Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it? Updated Those keen to get their Microsoft PCs patched up as soon as possible have been getting an unpleasant shock when they try to get in using Windows Hello....

It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again? Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has been "actively hiding information" about American telecommunications networks' weak security for years, according to Senator Ron Wyden....

OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago A US banking regulator fears sensitive financial oversight data was stolen from its IT systems in what's been described as "a major information security incident."...

One's a world power with extensive cutting-edge electronics manufacturing empire, the other is America World War Fee President Trump's trade war with China kicked into gear this week. The upshot is Americans face having to pay more for products and components sourced from the Middle Kingdom, as the eye-watering import tariffs on the gear are set to be passed onto them....

Middle Kingdom gets 125%. So this is what it's like living in reality TV World War Fee The EU voted Wednesday to introduce 25 percent import tariffs on American goods, with the first duties being collected from European consumers on April 15....

Yep. It's Axiom's datacenters in SPAAAAACE Axiom Space says it is planning to launch a pair of Orbital Data Center (ODC) nodes to low Earth orbit by the end of 2025....

Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed? World War Fee Microsoft has called a halt to the construction of three datacenter campuses in central Ohio, in a sign the tech giant is having to reappraise its infrastructure requirements amid uncertain economic circumstances and weaker-than-expected AI demand....

And coming up next, Trump's World War Fee The hint of optimism to be found in February's tech jobs numbers? Yeah, it's pretty much gone, according to multiple analyses of the latest data out from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for March....

Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers The UK's justice department has confirmed it is working on developing algorithms to predict which criminals will later become murderers....

How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec Cloud Next Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market....

The 1990s called - they're impressed The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS - but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal....

SenseShield the latest company to fall foul of 24H2 Microsoft has thrown up a Windows 11 24H2 compatibility hold for devices running SenseShield Technology's sprotect.sys driver....

Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has appointed a second tranche of program leaders and announced new program areas, suggesting confidence in its long-term funding....

Strangely no eighth tip to use something else Microsoft has published seven tips for getting the most out of Windows 11, and the pitches for the operating system - which has failed to win hearts and minds of users - are not very compelling....

Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027 A startup backed by Sandia National Laboratories thinks it's found a cool new way to keep the world's supercomputers and datacenters cool enough to run efficiently: Zap em with lasers....

Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators tell AI developers whether it's OK to use their work....

Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky The United States Social Security Administration's internet portal has frequently gone offline in recent weeks, and presented inaccurate or incomplete information to users, perhaps because of changes steered by Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit....

Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and at their homes....

We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future Interview The founder of an AI startup who attempted to use an artificially generated avatar to argue his case in court has been scolded by a judge for the stunt....

A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix....

What did we learn today, hm? TSMC could end up paying $1 billion or more to settle a US investigation into whether the Taiwanese outfit busted sanctions, inadvertently or not, by indirectly manufacturing AI accelerators for Huawei....

Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That's another slip of paper entirely Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor (SMR) - the first such license issued in the country....

Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so Meta submitted a specially crafted, non-public variant of its Llama 4 AI model to an online benchmark that may have unfairly boosted its leaderboard position over rivals....

'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear Boeing issued a software safety patch for the VHF radio systems used on its 787 aircraft, and the update turned out to be ineffective, Qatar Airways has complained....

What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off....

70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot Comment There is something about Elon Musk's career trajectory that compels onlookers to hang around for the seemingly inevitable crash landing. Tesla, SpaceX, and X - formerly known as Twitter - have all become hosts to the man's galactic ego....

Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft Microsoft is extending support for a product scheduled for deprecation. Sadly for some, it's not Windows 10....

Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great World War Fee Modular laptop maker Framework is pausing sales of models it would make a loss on, while a small US keyboard biz is facing hundreds of dollars slapped on its products that American consumers will have to pay....

Windows maker marks milestone with Clippy-esque additions that resemble tools from OpenAI, Google Microsoft used its 50th birthday to announce a slew of new Copilot features, many of which will be eerily familiar to anyone who's used rival AI platforms....

Despite arrests, eight-legged menace targeted more victims this year Despite several arrests last year, Scattered Spider's social engineering attacks are continuing into 2025 as the cybercrime collective targets high-profile organizations and adds another phishing kit to its arsenal along with a new version of Spectre RAT malware....

No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has delivered its first GPU interconnect specification: UALink 200G 1.0....

Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal Procter & Gamble says organizations should rethink how they're run to take better advantage of innovation enabled by generative AI....

Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth You've perhaps heard of using Moon dirt for building roads and other structures for future lunar explorers. But a group of German scientists reckon they've found another use for the grey stuff: Turn it into glass and use it to assemble solar power cells right there on the Moon....

Who wouldn't want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can't solve for Trump tariffs) IBM's latest mainframe builds on the platform's traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support large language models (LLMs), assistants, and agents....

Government boasts of 14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes 300M hit Despite ambitions to position itself as a science and tech superpower, the UK has cut the budget for the government body responsible for university research funding....

Multiple red-rated performance metrics blamed on inability to answer rising numbers of data protection worries The UK's data protection watchdog is recruiting more warm bodies to tackle its red-rated backlog of unresolved complaints....

Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe's anti-fraud org isn't probing European authorities last week charged eight people with offenses including corruption and money laundering linked to the European Parliament - and perhaps also to Huawei....

May also have fixed AI memory biz if better-than-expected revenue guidance is anything to go by World War Fee Samsung Electronics doesn't fear the impact of the USA's new tariffs regime on its displays business because it makes many of them in Mexico, according to Yong Seok-woo, president and head the company's visual display business,...

Will 'gutting' the civilian defense agency make American cybersecurity great again? Analysis Slashing staff at the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, and scrapping vital programs, isn't exactly boosting national security, say infosec and national security officials watching America's digital defenses unravel in real time....

Reliability, honesty, accuracy. And then there's this lot Oracle has briefed some customers about a successful intrusion into its public cloud, as well as the theft of their data, after previously denying it had been compromised....

Redmond's not alone: AWS, Alibaba, DeepSeek also rely on others blazing the trail Analysis Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has extolled the virtues of playing second fiddle in the generative-AI race....

As costs for US shoppers set to rise, markets slump, orange is new red, we speak to economic experts World War Fee President Donald Trump last week announced a sweeping new round of tariffs, setting the stage for price hikes across consumer tech, pro gear, and almost anything else that crosses a border....

But this mystery isn't over yet, Unit 42 opines That massive GitHub supply chain attack that spilled secrets from countless projects? It traces back to a stolen token from a SpotBugs workflow - exposed way back in November, months earlier than previously suspected....

President to up tariffs on Middle Kingdom goods to 104% from 54% World War Fee President Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on Chinese goods by a further 50 percent this week, meaning imports from the Middle Kingdom into America would have a 104 percent levy. And buyers are expected to pick up the extra cost....

Crummy OPSEC leads to potentially decades in prison Noah Michael Urban, 20, of alleged Scattered Spider infamy, has pleaded guilty to various charges and potentially faces decades in prison....

Video app's future once again caught between trade war and political whiplash World War Fee A deal to sell off TikTok's US operations to White House-approved owners appears to have hit a tariff-shaped roadblock, with the Chinese government signalling it won't allow the move....

ULA wins $5.4B and Blue Origin $2.4B The US will spend $5.9 billion on Elon Musk's SpaceX in the name of national security. United Launch Alliance (ULA) follows with $5.4 billion, and Blue Origin is set to receive $2.4 billion....

We're on a roadmap to nowhere. Come on inside Opinion Nvidia has just shown off its vision of the near future in the shape of its Blackwell Ultra. Aptly for a company that helps gamers explore dystopian science-fiction hellscapes, Nvidia's actual future involves vast, heat-soaked stacks of silicon, guzzling energy by the half-gigawatt....