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'They have to give us magnets'

World War Fee  The Chinese lockdown on rare-earth minerals has drawn the ire of President Trump, who is threatening crushing tariffs if the Middle Kingdom doesn't cough up more rare earths.…

Suspects this was Beijing-backed Typhoon and/or Panda crew targeting diplomats in Asia

Google has warned customers of a suspected state-backed attack after observing a web traffic hijacking campaign.…

Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions

COMMENT  US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.…

Machine-learning models are automating away some entry-level roles

Researchers with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab say that workers between the ages of 22 and 25 in occupations most exposed to AI, like software developers, have seen a 13 percent relative decline in employment compared to other occupations.…

AI am inevitable, AI firm argues

Anthropic is now offering a research preview of Claude for Chrome, a browser extension that enables the firm's machine learning model to automate web browsing.…

It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material

Google has updated its Gemini AI image generation tool with a build that caused a stir after it was released under the code name Nano Bananas.…

Oh, look, a use case for OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b model

ESET malware researchers Anton Cherepanov and Peter Strycek have discovered what they describe as the "first known AI-powered ransomware," which they named PromptLock. …

Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates

Google will extend developer verification to all Android apps, not just those installed from the Play Store, beginning with Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand in September 2026, and followed by global rollout in 2027 and beyond.…

'Many dozens' targeted in ongoing campaign, CheckPoint researcher tells The Reg

Cybercriminals are targeting critical US manufacturers and supply-chain companies, looking to steal sensitive IP and other data while deploying ransomware. Their attack involves a novel twist on phishing — and a photo of White House butlers. …

From hardware security chips and trusted execution pipelines to open source Root of Trust modules

Hot Chips  Microsoft is one of the biggest names in cybersecurity, but it has a less-than-stellar track record in the department. Given its reputation, Redmond can't afford to mess around when it comes to securing its cloud customers' data and workloads.…

Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it

A Social Security Administration employee has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has put the records of every single American at risk by duplicating an agency database in an unauthorized cloud environment. …

Judge says label is 'misleading'

A German court has told Apple to stop advertising its Watches as being carbon-neutral, ruling that this was misleading and could not fly under the country's competition law.…

The GSA is letting AI chatbot makers jump the FedRAMP queue

The US government wants more AI chatbots in fed employees' hands, and its push to do so means that tech companies keen to provide other services will have to get in line behind the LLM makers.…

Administrators can get patches installed via Intune before the first login

From next month, Windows administrators will be able to inflict Microsoft's quality updates on users via the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) by default.…

Criminals already abusing its latest zero-days

Citrix has pushed out fixes for three fresh NetScaler holes – and yes, they've already been used in the wild before the vendor got around to patching.…

Tokyo filing adds to mounting actions against startup

AI search outfit Perplexity has been hit with yet another copyright lawsuit, this time courtesy of Japan's Nikkei and Asahi media companies.…

Remy Ra St Felix led a vicious international crime ring

A violent home invader and gunpoint cryptocurrency thief will now spend more than 50 years behind bars after being found guilty of assaulting a witness.…

We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!

Elon Musk's monster rocket, Starship, remains firmly on the launchpad after two scrubs in a row, first due to an oxygen leak and then some clouds.…

Isolation? We've heard of it

Docker has patched a critical hole in Docker Desktop that let a container break out and take control of the host machine with laughable ease.…

Crims raided third-party systems and lifted personal data, including license numbers and partial SSNs

US insurance giant Farmers Insurance says more than a million customers had personal data nicked after a third-party vendor was compromised.…