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Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs

World War Fee  As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace.…

Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside

UK health professionals remain "skeptical" about electronic patient records, despite the NHS in England achieving more than 90 percent coverage.…

Officials teased more details to come later this year

Following the 2024 takedown of several major malware operations under Operation Endgame, law enforcement has continued its crackdown into 2025, detaining five individuals linked to the Smokeloader botnet.…

Expected sales surge sparked by Windows 10 support ending could yet be trumped, analysts suggest

World War Fee  The first quarter of 2025 saw shipments of new PCs surge, as vendors and buyers tried to move machines before tariffs made them more expensive.…

TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast

Oracle's letter to customers about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire - while insisting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was untouched - has sparked a mix of ridicule and outrage in the infosec community.…

OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago

A US banking regulator says sensitive financial oversight data was accessed by one or more system intruders for more than a year in what's been described as "a major information security incident."…

Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?

Cloud Next  Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216 chips.…

It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again?

Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has been "actively hiding information" about American telecommunications networks' weak security for years, according to Senator Ron Wyden.…

Can't Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it?

Updated  Those keen to get their Microsoft PCs patched up as soon as possible have been getting an unpleasant shock when they try to get in using Windows Hello.…

Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights

Apple has agreed to settle charges of labor rights violations filed with America's employment watchdog by whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik.…

Best after-dinner mint ever

Nvidia may have been served a particularly delicious digestif after dropping a million bucks for dinner at President Trump’s Florida home Mar-a-Lago: A reprieve on restrictions of its AI chips to China.…

From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos

Clearview AI has booted founder and former CEO Hoan Ton-That from its board, just weeks after he stepped down as president.…

Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast

The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators tell AI developers whether it’s OK to use their work.…

Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another slip of paper entirely

Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor (SMR) – the first such license issued in the country.…

With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE

Microsoft has weeks to produce a multi-tenant hybrid cloud for service providers in Europe – a failure to do this or to even out alleged anti-competitive pricing for its software licenses could again put it in a legal dogfight with smaller rivals.…

How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec

Cloud Next  Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market.…

Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed?

World War Fee  Microsoft has called a halt to the construction of three datacenter campuses in central Ohio, in a sign the tech giant is having to reappraise its infrastructure requirements amid uncertain economic circumstances and weaker-than-expected AI demand.…

The 1990s called – they're impressed

The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS – but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal.…

Yep. It's Axiom's datacenters in SPAAAAACE

Axiom Space says it is planning to launch a pair of Orbital Data Center (ODC) nodes to low Earth orbit by the end of 2025.…

Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year

The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has appointed a second tranche of program leaders and announced new program areas, suggesting confidence in its long-term funding.…