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Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters

Euro tech giant ASML hit its revenue guidance last quarter and still expects the coffers to swell this year, but order bookings are down as Trump's tariff turmoil casts uncertainty over the entire industry.…

Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age

Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux event.…

Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion

Exclusive  Two of the top team behind Asda's £1 billion ($1.31 billion) tech divorce from US retail giant Walmart — which has seen a number of setbacks — are departing the company.…

It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in

Ransomware operators jack up their ransom demands by a factor of 2.8x if they detect a victim has cyber-insurance, a study highlighted by the Netherlands government has confirmed.…

Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?

Microsoft Teams experienced a file-sharing outage overnight that disrupted collaboration for many users and forced the software biz to roll back a recent backend change.…

£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC

In 2022, the UK's tax collector put £4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) on the table to help its applications become "less dependent upon legacy technologies." The extent to which His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) achieved that goal is debatable, but there is no doubt it intends to spend up to £5.2 billion ($6.9 billion) more to continue the job.…

It's LLMs all the way down

Apple, having starved its AI models of data by respecting customer privacy, plans to improve its chatbot suggestions by using made-up emails.…

Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission yesterday ordered Google to stop doing deals that require manufacturers of Android handsets to include its apps.…

So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago

World War Fee  The Trump administration's latest salvo in the US-China trade war has forced Nvidia to take a $5.5 billion charge, the GPU goliath revealed in a Tuesday regulatory filing that sent its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.…

Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?

Meta on Monday said it plans to start training its AI models using public posts and comments shared by adults in the EU, along with interactions users have with its chatbot.…

Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago

A decade after gobbling up Altera, Intel is loosening its grip. On Monday, the x86 giant said it's flogging a 51 percent stake in the FPGA slinger to private equity firm Silver Lake.…

See no error, hear no error, speak no error

The three wise Microsoft monkeys have spoken. If Windows Update displayed an error after installing the April 2025 Windows Recovery Environment release, you didn't see anything. Best to ignore it and move on.…

Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically

World war fee  Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of thine actions. The Trump administration's global trade war is threatening to hit US military readiness.…

800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain

A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed.…

Car hire biz takes your privacy seriously, though

Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year.…

IT admins, get ready to grumble

CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new SSL/TLS certs to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.…

That would put America on the same level as China for espionage

The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.…

Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked

Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities, and users' IP addresses.…

There's a new tariff in town

World War Fee  Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors.…

Beijing tries to find an off-ramp but also fights back with export bans

World War Fee  The Trump administration’s strategy to use tariffs on imports as an incentive for businesses to move their manufacturing plants to the USA took a new turn over the weekend after it announced exemptions for some goods, denied the exemptions were new, then said it plans further tariffs on high-tech goods.…