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Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030

The White House has proposed slashing NASA's budget by 24 percent, dropping it from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion. If approved, it would mark one of the agency's deepest single-year cuts in federal support, and crash its inflation-adjusted funding to levels not seen in decades.…

Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says

World War Fee  Meta's AI ambitions are going to cost more than expected thanks to increased competition and — who could have seen this coming? — the Trump administration's obsession with tariffs, which is driving up the price tag of key components.…

iGiant shifted production to India and Vietnam but has no idea if that will help after tariff pause ends

Apple believes the USA’s new tariffs policy will impact its finances by at least $900 million in its next quarter, has re-organized its supply chains to protect itself from whatever comes next, but can’t predict the impact on its business.…

25-year-old fella pleads guilty to stealing, dumping 1.1TB of data from the House of Mouse

When someone stole more than a terabyte of data from Disney last year, it was believed to be the work of Russian hacktivists protesting for artist rights. We now know it was actually a 25-year-old California resident.…

Switching voltage allows search giant to swap out power delivery system

Google is planning for datacenter racks supporting 1 MW of IT hardware loads, plus the cooling infrastructure to cope, as AI processing continues to grow ever more energy intensive.…

Grab more headroom with the 4 and 8 GB variants

Raspberry Pi has bucked tech industry trends and cut prices for the 4 GB and 8 GB variants of its Compute Module 4.…

Real-time video deepfakes? Not convincing yet

RSAC  Spam messages predate the web itself, and generative AI has given it a fluency upgrade, churning out slick, localized scams and letting crooks hit regions and dialects they used to ignore.…

CEO, senior execs ‘at every turn chose the most anti-competitive option’

A federal judge has said Apple execs deliberately ignored an injunction and told lies in court – and so has asked US prosecutors to consider criminal charges against the iPhone titan.…

As military memo makes it official policy

The US Army intends to secure the right to repair its own equipment, a right that hasn't always been available under past procurement contracts - and one of the very few things that Democrats in Congress and the Trump administration broadly agree upon.…

Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead

Microsoft has announced a price cut for Windows 365 alongside a not-so-subtle suggestion that Windows 10 users might consider taking advantage of the offer to keep security updates flowing.…

UK starts prosecution days after FBI vowed to clamp down on the crime

Three young Brits are accused of stateside swatting offences and will appear in a UK court today to face their charges after a joint investigation by the FBI and Merseyside cops.…

Ireland privacy watchdog says transfers violated GDPR, as Chinese app confirms €1B datacenter in Finland

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has confirmed a fine of €530 million ($600 million) against social media biz TikTok for transferring European user data to China.…

Report into alternative networks says competition with BT and co making life harder than ever

Alternative network providers (altnets) are facing tough competition from the big players in the UK broadband market, with consolidation likely in the face of slowing growth in fiber internet uptake.…

Experts suggest the obvious: There is an ongoing coordinated attack on UK retail sector

Harrods, a globally recognized purveyor of all things luxury, is the third major UK retailer to confirm an attempted cyberattack on its systems in under two weeks.…

Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that each Friday serves up your stories of biting into half-baked tech support problems.…

Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates

UK authorities on Wednesday arrested three individuals in connection with a multi-million-pound bribery probe tied to the construction of a Microsoft datacenter in the Netherlands.…

This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it?

+Comment  Anthropic has urged the White House to further tighten so-called AI diffusion rules – which are already set to hurt Nvidia and co by limiting or blocking the sale of higher-end GPUs and accelerators outside the US and a select few allies from mid-May.…

The spreadsheet from Hell

From the department of "but… why?" comes news of Linux running in Microsoft Excel, although all might not be as it seems.…

House Oversight probes missing Musk disclosures, background checks, data mess at NLRB

Elon Musk is backing away from his Trump-blessed government gig, but now House Democrats want to see the permission slip that got him in the door.…

Seriously, HTF does Reality Labs bleed SIXTY BILLION US DOLLARS in FIVE years?

Meta's Reality Labs division continued its losing streak with another $4.2 billion down the drain in the first quarter of 2025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg's stated priorities on Wednesday's earnings call suggest his metaverse dream is well and truly over.…