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Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim

Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation after a tech staffer at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) blew the whistle on the cost-trimming DOGE's activities at the employment watchdog – which the staffer claims included being granted superuser status in contravention of standard operating procedures, exfiltrating data, and seemingly leaking credentials to someone with a Russian IP address.…

As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit

Nvidia's troubles with the US government have just begun: The day after the Trump administration's export restrictions on its AI chips triggered a $5.5 billion charge, US elected officials are now demanding answers about how advanced silicon ended up in China. Meanwhile, CEO Jensen Huang has flown to China to try and smooth things over with the regime there.…

Returning crew and a vital supply launch distract managers from chocolate eggs

The US Space Agency has a busy few days ahead as a trio of International Space Station (ISS) residents prepare to return to Earth this weekend, and a critical SpaceX Dragon freighter is readied for launch on Monday.…

Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair

AWS estimates half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate away from the Windows giant's cloud if only the licensing costs of doing so were not prohibitively high and a competitive deterrent.…

Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez

A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk's Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing one staff member to access sensitive US Treasury payment systems. This access includes personally identifiable financial information tied to millions of Americans.…

Bookworm 12.10-based release is a few steps ahead of upstream

MX Linux 23.6 is here, taking the baseline of Debian 12.10 and adding some selected tweaks and updates of its own.…

'It's amazing how fast the change has been'

Are customers on the European side of the pond considering a move from US hyperscalers in the wake of recent events? Some of the region's vendors are reporting an uptick in inquiries as organizations mull their options.…

Chip contract manufacturer not immune to 'uncertainties and risks' caused by Trump's import taxes

TSMC's top brass insist it is not entertaining a joint venture with beleaguered chip biz Intel, though it is steeling itself for potential effects from the Trump administration's ever-changing tariff schemes.…

Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it

Analysis  The idea of datacenters feeding power back into the electricity grid during peak demand may sound promising, but operators say it's unlikely to catch on beyond a few trials in Ireland because of the cost and technical complexity involved.…

Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD

British soldiers have successfully taken down drones with a radio-wave weapon.…

Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly

Tesla has been accused of somehow sneakily altering a customer's odometer to hasten the end of his vehicle's warranty period.…

No signal? No problem. But also no solid commitment to Britcoin yet

The Bank of England has shown offline digital payment systems can work but plans to study policy choices before giving them the green light.…

Alleges £5B in harm caused by Android deals, anticompetitive actions

A British academic has launched a class-action suit against Google, alleging abuse of its market dominance in online search caused £5 billion ($6.6 billion) of damage to advertisers.…

Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us

A bad mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for almost two hours on Wednesday afternoon, US time.…

Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer

Researchers at China’s Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering have found a way to restore the energy density of old Lithium-Ion batteries by heating them to over 150°C.…

It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?

TalkTalk Business customers were forced to survive without email nearly a week after a technical fault disrupted domain hosting.…

Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system

Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…

Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide

It is twenty years since NASA's DART mission collided with a satellite after depleting its fuel during a rendezvous attempt.…

Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work

World War Fee  President Trump's reign of tariffs has been challenged on the left and right by the State of California and the Liberty Justice Center.…

Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months

Nvidia wants to build and sell up to half a trillion US dollars of American-made AI supercomputer equipment over the next four years, with the help of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, aka TSMC, and its partners.…