Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying
Opinion The UK government's attempts to worm into Apple's core end-to-end encryption were set back last week when the country's Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds.…
VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way
VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor.…
Old Fortinet flaws under attack with new method its patch didn't prevent
Infosec In Brief Fortinet last week admitted that attackers have found new ways to exploit three flaws it thought it had fixed last year.…
China reportedly admitted directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure
Asia In Brief Chinese officials admitted to directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure at a meeting with their American counterparts, according to The Wall Street Journal.…
Hacktivism resurges – but don't be fooled, it's often state-backed goons in masks
Feature From triggering a water tank overflow in Texas to shutting down Russian state news services on Vladimir Putin's birthday, self-styled hacktivists have been making headlines.…
China ups tariffs on US goods to 125%, calls Trump's war a 'joke'
World War Fee China is upping tariffs on US imports to 125 percent, branding the Trump administration's tax policies a "joke."…
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
The rise of LLM-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software - and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.…
The most important experimental distro you've never heard of gets new project lead
After five years, the extremely experimental GoboLinux project is springing back to life with a new maintainer and a new release.…
Pidgin is back, so let's talk about why a local chat client matters
In the 2020s you might be forgiven for having forgotten that such a thing as a native chat client exists, but a handful still do and they're still useful. One of these is Pidgin, the artist formerly known as GAIM.…
Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints
Scandal struck UK utility company Southern Water is extending a long-running managed services contract with Capita, everyone's favorite outsourcing badass, for up to five years at an estimated cost of £92.4 million ($121 million).…
Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right
World War Fee President Trump's trade war with China kicked into gear this week. The upshot is Americans face having to pay more for products and components sourced from the Middle Kingdom, as the eye-watering import tariffs on the gear are set to be passed onto them.…
EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted
World War Fee The EU voted Wednesday to introduce 25 percent import tariffs on American goods, with the first duties being collected from European consumers on April 15.…
Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs
After temporarily shelving its controversial Windows Recall feature amid a wave of backlash, Microsoft is back at it - now quietly slipping the screenshotting app into the Windows 11 Release Preview channel for Copilot+ PCs, signaling its near-readiness for general availability.…
Global datacenter electricity use to double by 2030, say policy wonks. Yup, it's AI
Analysis Global datacenter electricity use is set to more than double by 2030 - slightly surpassing Japan's total consumption - with AI named as the biggest driver.…
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary
Comment AI's appetite for power is exploding. Hyperscalers have only just begun to adopt Nvidia's 120 kW-per-rack systems, and the GPU giant is already charting a course toward 600 kW designs.…
Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again
Have you ever wanted to explore a blocky low-resolution version of the UK? Well, you're in luck, because the Ordnance Survey has created a Minecraft representation of it, claimed to be as realistic as anything ever can be in the game.…
Ransomware crims hammering UK more than ever as British techies complain the board just doesn't get it
The UK government's latest annual data breach survey shows the number of ransomware attacks on the isles is on the increase – and many techies are forced to constantly informally request company directors for defense spending because there's no security people on the board.…
Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts
The US Department of Defense (DOD) has canceled contracts for "consulting and other non-essential services" in the latest round of cuts conceived by Elon Musk's DOGE unit.…
IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency
An activist investor has called on IBM to report on its lobbying practices, which he alleges include spending “dark money” with organizations that campaign against climate change reporting and legislation.…
Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes
Amazon exec chairman Jeff Bezos may not have a daily operational role at the cloud and e-commerce megacorp he founded, but he still got a bigger compensation package than the person currently pulling the strings from the chief executive's office.…
