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Lemme guess ... he'll fix it all with tariffs? We sat through the entire speech so you don't have to

Updated  Donald Trump has renewed his call for CHIPS Act funding to be cancelled, and suggests any remaining money be set against national debt.…

Akira really wasn't horsing around with this one

Toronto Zoo's final update on its January 2024 cyberattack arrived this week, revealing that visitor data going back to 2000 had been compromised.…

Attacks strike, facilities go bust, patients die. But it's preventable

It will cost upward of $75 million to address the cybersecurity needs of rural US hospitals, Microsoft reckons, as mounting closures threaten the lives of Americans.…

400MWh now, and 600MWh by next year? Crivens, that's a fat batt!

What's claimed to be Europe’s largest battery has come to Scotland, after a new facility came online in the country’s north.…

That's Mutual Assured AI Malfunction in the race for superintelligence

ANALYSIS  Former Google chief Eric Schmidt says the US should refrain from pursuing a latter-day "Manhattan Project" to gain AI supremacy, as this will provoke preemptive cyber responses from rivals such as China that could lead to escalation.…

No 'zero days without incident' sign for Microsoft thanks ongoing problems

Problems with Outlook.com are continuing, with users reporting being unable to access their emails or authenticate themselves.…

Veteran probes close in on the half century

More science instruments are being shut down on the Voyager probes as engineers attempt to eke out the power and keep them running for years to come.…

Global giants shouldn't be allowed to make 'committed spend' public sector deals and make discounts we cannot match

Britain's competition regulator is facing biting criticism from local cloud providers for declining to act on Committed Spend Agreements (CSAs), the sales tools that AWS and Microsoft use to lure customers.…

Physicist and media darling argues partnership with NASA too prone to political whim

The UK should hitch its cosmic wagon to the European space agency and contribute more cash to the intergovernmental body, professor Brian Cox, musician, media luvvie and Manchester University particle physicist, told the UK's second Parliamentary chamber this week.…

Jailbreak it, or even gut it and turn its screen into a low-power portable display with a Modos e-ink controller

FOSDEM 2025  Amazon's Kindle e-readers just got a bit less useful, but help is at hand, from jailbreaking to making one of the devices into a monitor.…

This time we mean it for the Windows chatbot

Microsoft has revamped its Copilot app on Windows once again, this time insisting it really has gone native.…

No, your car can't navigate in space. But perhaps colonies can find their way without dedicated lunar GPS

An experimental module attached to Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Moon lander successfully used Earth's orbiting satnav systems, a feat that suggests a specialized lunar positioning system may not be needed.…

While we’re talking open source V12N, meet SEAPATH: A new hypervisor for electricity grids backed by Red Hat

The Xen Project has delivered an update to its flagship hypervisor.…

If you find Chipzilla's financial figures hard to parse, don't worry, it stumped these folks, too

Intel has dodged at least one shareholder lawsuit accusing the chipmaker of misleading investors about the health of its struggling foundry business.…

Complaint alleges 13 funding proposals foundered amid battle for control

Eric Gan is no longer CEO of AI security biz Cybereason after what appears to have been a protracted and unpleasant fight with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund and Liberty Strategic Capital.…

Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg

In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the Imitation Game, better known as the Turing Test, to identify when a computer's response to questions becomes convincing enough that the interrogator believes the machine could be human.…

'No regrets' crew continues extorting victims, leaking highly sensitive data

Qilin – the "no regrets" ransomware crew wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry – just claimed responsibility for fresh attacks on a cancer treatment clinic in Japan and a women's healthcare facility in the US.…

They're good at zero-day exploits, too

Updated  Silk Typhoon, the Chinese government crew believed to be behind the December US Treasury intrusions, has been abusing stolen API keys and cloud credentials in ongoing attacks targeting IT companies and state and local government agencies since late 2024, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…

Xi's freelance infosec warriors apparently paid up to $75K to crack a single American inbox

US government agencies announced Wednesday criminal charges against alleged members of China's Silk Typhoon gang, plus internet domain seizures linked to a long-term Chinese espionage campaign that saw Beijing hire miscreants to compromise US government agencies and other major orgs.…

Desktop family gets chip boost as MacBook Air bags an M4 upgrade, more memory, price cut

Apple's newly refreshed Mac Studio has arrived bristling with up to 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores, and as much as 512GB of unified memory on board.…