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Tariff moves threaten supply chain stability The cost of buying servers for business will inevitably rise as a result of US President Donald Trump's trade policies, at least in the short term, as uncertainty grips the supply chain....

Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore - ransomware now leads the pack, taking down systems faster than any natural disaster....

Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard....

Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind Opinion Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his reputation. Nonetheless, the institute that bears his name makes it clear who it stands with when it comes to using copyrighted material to fuel the expansion of machine learning into every human domain....

Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit Britain's Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it has put 144GB of the delivery giant's data up for sale, perhaps after acquiring it with the same stolen credentials it used to crack Samsung Germany....

The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions The Open InfraFoundation has delivered a new version of OpenStack named Epoxy" and thinks it's an even better option for those seeking a VMware alternative....

GPT-4o likely trained on O'Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission....

Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models....

Tech slugged with higher duties, broad base 10% hike, semiconductors avoid retaliatory levies for now US President Donald Trump has imposed a base ten percent tariff on all imports into America, and higher levies on goods from major producers of digital tech, such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan....

Double-oh-sh... The name's not Bond. It's O'Brien - Keith O'Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling....

Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once Pennsylvania's largest coal plant, as part of a proposed datacenter campus running AI and high-performance computing workloads....

Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become "unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky," and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand....

CEO hails 'transformative year' as IPO puts 'puter maker on the big board Updated Raspberry Pi hasn't felt the sting of US tariffs yet, and having its boards built outside China might give it an edge over rivals, analysts reckon....

Fallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web....

Hike is no joke and users are not laughing Microsoft's Power BI price rises have arrived, with some tiers increasing by up to 40 percent....

Has until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop Qualcomm has confirmed its interest in buying high-speed connectivity module designer Alphawave Semi, a move that could see yet another major British tech operation swallowed up by a foreign business....

Organizational, technological resilience combined defeat the disease that is cybercrime When IT disasters strike, it can become a matter of life and death for healthcare organizations - and criminals know it....

Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches....

Tip-lipped for 30 years before becoming an 'unrivaled advocate' for the site Obit Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility in England during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101....

5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support, saving 5 million ($6.5 million) that can be reallocated to the business....

Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time....

Cupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases....

With help from UK operatives, because it's getting tougher to run the scam in the USA North Korea's scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers....

But his emails! Sharing them with Google! Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information....

Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform....

AI accelerators to see the light, literally Lightmatter this week unveiled a pair of silicon photonic interconnects designed to satiate the growing demand for chip-to-chip bandwidth associated with ever-denser AI deployments....

Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder Vision Not even Intel's top brass know what's on newly minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block....

Nobody's tested the tapes this decade, thinks to back up the Recycle Bin, or takes care when using rm On Call Special How can you avoid a disaster recovery disaster?...

Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table Comment At its GPU Technology Conference last month, Nvidia broke with convention by shifting its definition of what counts as a GPU....

New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing its investigations into both the SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion and Blue Origin New Glenn-1 landing failure....

Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer Microsoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows of the company's journey to dominance?...

'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us Interview Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence, after a US court ruled the AI outfit's use of the newswire giant's copyrighted Westlaw content didn't qualify as fair use....

Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies in line to receive funding commit to substantially expand their own investments....

The UK government must be thrilled Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it'll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT admins....

Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing 1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an alternative to local customers anxious about using US hypercalers....

Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging 100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration....

What counts as failure in New Space? Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and - you guessed it - its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called "New Space" - the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket sector?...

Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware....

Lenders told of 175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly 1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline....

Not exactly Snowden levels of skill A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial....

Optimistic much? Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom....

Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April....

How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too Microsoft has quietly revealed it's redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out....

OK, AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ... Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around....

Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find? Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet - all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly questionable pictures....

Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Owners of Ivanti's Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA....

Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidence A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week....

1990s incident response in 2025 Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly - it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too....

Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it resolved concerns about its sources of funding with the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS)....

Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcher A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration....