TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – that may cost it $1B+
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.…
Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar
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.…
Meta debuts its first 'mixture of experts' models from the Llama 4 herd
Meta has debuted the first two models in its Llama 4 family, its first to use mixture of experts tech.…
Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank
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.…
Don't open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE
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.…
As CISA braces for more cuts, threat intel sharing takes a hit
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.…
Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney
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.…
Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock
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 Server Update Services live to patch another day
Microsoft is extending support for a product scheduled for deprecation. Sadly for some, it's not Windows 10.…
Scattered Spider stops the Rickrolls, starts the RAT race
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.…
Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette
Procter & Gamble says organizations should rethink how they're run to take better advantage of innovation enabled by generative AI.…
Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power
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.…
IBM's z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance
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.…
Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash
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.…
UK data watchdog seeks fresh blood as more complaints lie unanswered for up to a year
The UK's data protection watchdog is recruiting more warm bodies to tackle its red-rated backlog of unresolved complaints.…
Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying
European authorities last week charged eight people with offenses including corruption and money laundering linked to the European Parliament – and perhaps also to Huawei.…
Samsung trumps USA's tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed
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,…
Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised
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.…
Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes
Analysis Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has extolled the virtues of playing second fiddle in the generative-AI race.…
China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals
World War Fee Beijing has responded to the Trump administration's latest round of import taxes with retaliatory tariffs and new restrictions on rare earth minerals.…
