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As this year’s buyers rush to beat Trump’s tariffs

Korean chipmaker SK hynix has told investors the future looks bright thanks to strong demand for its memory products and early delivery of its first HBM4 samples.…

WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?!

A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!)…

DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software

The US Justice Department on Thursday weighed into an antitrust legal war that alleges algorithmic price fixing by healthcare services by MultiPlan and its health insurance clients.…

Crew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET

The China-aligned FamousSparrow crew has resurfaced after a long period of presumed inactivity, compromising a US financial-sector trade group and a Mexican research institute. The gang also likely targeted a governmental institution in Honduras, along with other yet-to-be-identified victims.…

So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew?

Updated  The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret military plans has now publicly released the messages.…

Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro

EU OS is a proposal for an immutable KDE-based Linux distribution with a Windows-like desktop, designed for use in European public-sector organizations.…

Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America

Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run deeper than reported, and the jobs are heading to India.…

Warning of possible problems sparks controversy: Was it OverDAtop?

Rachel Kroll has clarified the Atop alarm: Turns out it was just a weird little bug, and it's probably already been fixed.…

Concerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job

Keeping critical tech out of the hands of US adversaries is about to get harder for the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) with the Trump administration seemingly poised to slash its already meager budget by $20 million.…

Researchers say 'proactive' approach is needed to combat global cybercrime

Here's one you don't see every day: A cybersecurity vendor is admitting to breaking into a notorious ransomware crew's infrastructure and gathering data it relayed to national agencies to help victims.…

All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo freighter, the NG-22, is being delayed indefinitely after engineers confirmed the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) had sustained damage in its shipping container.…

Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously

Tech vendors are awaiting the outcome of a constitutional battle to decide the fate of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the federal Department of Education to be dismantled.…

Screenshot shows company head unhappy, claiming 'real CVE is pending'

CrushFTP's CEO is not happy with VulnCheck after the CVE numbering authority (CNA) released an unofficial ID for the critical vulnerability in its file transfer tech disclosed almost a week ago.…

'This was not good dog food'

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has taken to his YouTube channel to explain Redmond's missteps with Windows Longhorn and the background to the company's failed attempt at an XP follow-up.…

Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies

The US government has initiated another crackdown on Chinese businesses skirting chip export bans, adding a few dozen new names, and offshoots of repeat offenders, to the entity list.…

Britain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat

The former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales is getting £250 million ($323 million) to start making silicon carbide semiconductors, a year after the sale of the site was approved by UK government.…

Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough

DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a bunch of their customers' gateways going offline.…

Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse?

Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain just how dumb the USB-to-PS/2 adapters that shipped with Microsoft Mouse devices really were.…

As if living in Croydon wasn't bad enough

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South London suburb of Croydon.…

Data stolen included checklist for medics on how to get into vulnerable people's homes

The UK's data protection watchdog is dishing out a £3.07 million ($3.95 million) fine to Advanced Computer Software Group, whose subsidiary's security failings led to a ransomware attack affecting NHS care.…