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2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it's probing IT 'security incident'

Exclusive  HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak what's claimed to be stolen internal records unless a substantial ransom is paid.…

Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid

Big Tech’s plans to spend hundreds of billions on infrastructure during 2025 are often considered to demonstrate near-endless demand for artificial intelligence, but networking vendor Arista has just revealed a large AI build has “stalled” due to lack of funds and hardware.…

Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance

France’s Commissariat à L'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore taken another step towards building a fusion reactor capable of producing cheap energy.…

That's the way the cookie melts

A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people's private call records.…

Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk

Comment  US President Donald Trump has made it plain he’s not a fan of the $53 billion CHIPS and Science Act that funds semiconductor manufacturing and research on American soil – and now it appears he’s decided to make substantial staff cuts at the agencies that administer it.…

If you want to avoid urgent patches, stop exposing management consoles to the public internet

A flaw patched last week by Palo Alto Networks is now under active attack and, when chained with two older vulnerabilities, allows attackers to gain root access to affected systems.…

Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched

The Einstein Probe space telescope has spotted evidence of one star consuming matter from another.…

Hey, at least Katie Arrington brings a solid resume

Donald Trump's nominee for a critical DoD cybersecurity role sports a resume that outshines many of his past picks, despite previously suspended security clearance.…

WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma'am?

Eggheads at Microsoft have produced a generative AI tool they say can create a three-dimensional game world to help developers design and tweak gameplay.…

A 'synthesizer for websites' lets you experiment and improvize your way to CSS

Interview  Loken is a new type of tool which aims to let website designers feel their way towards a design in the same sort of way as musicians do with a software synthesizer.…

EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge

Interview  AI chip startup EnCharge claims its analog artificial intelligence accelerators could rival desktop GPUs while using just a fraction of the power. Impressive — on paper, at least. Now comes the hard part: Proving it in the real world.…

Exploit code now available for MitM and DoS attacks

Researchers can disclose two brand-new vulnerabilities in OpenSSH now that patches have been released.…

If this makes you feel sick, knowing this happened before ransomware actors started targeting medical info may help

An alleged security SNAFU that occurred during the Obama administration has finally been settled under the second Trump administration.…

Envisions phased introduction dependent on manufacturing commitments

United States President Donald Trump has hinted at substantial tariffs on imported semiconductors.…

STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models

Feature  On Saturday at the Silverstone Cafe in San Francisco, a smattering of activists gathered to discuss plans to stop the further advancement of artificial intelligence.…

Musk's latest attempt at a 'maximally truth-seeking' bot arrives

Grok 3 has begun rolling out. xAI founder Elon Musk describes the chatbot as "a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct."…

Tech and people behind IoT brooch that reviewers instantly hated will one day pep up printers

The “AI Pin” produced by company called Humane was a leading tender for 2024’s biggest consumer tech flop, but that hasn’t stopped HP acquiring some of the code and people behind the device and using it as the basis for a new innovation team that will infuse its printers and conference room kit with AI.…

Black Escalade motorcade sold separately - of course

Need to turn heads and burn cash while out on the town? A new app lets you hire armed bodyguards to escort you around - chauffeur included - provided you're in Los Angeles or New York City.…

Scientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact

The latest figures from the European Space Agency (ESA) on the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 show a reduction in uncertainty around the object's orbit while the probability of impact remains low.…

Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone

Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to open a research hub this summer to test and validate the integration of orbital services with terrestrial cellphone networks.…