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Officials seek assurances that bot won't be used for military applications

Elon Musk says supply chain disruption in China held up delivery of a key component for Tesla's "Optimus" robot, with authorities reportedly demanding an export license and guarantees about military applications.…

Despite Horizon fallout, Japanese supplier continues to win public sector work

Fujitsu has won a £125 million ($167 million) contract to build Northern Ireland's new land registry system, despite promising not to bid for UK public sector work in the wake of the Post Office Horizon scandal.…

Smarter agents, continuous updates, and the eternal struggle to prove ROI

As Nvidia releases its NeMo microservices to embed AI agents into enterprise workflows, research has found that almost half of businesses are seeing only minor gains from their investments in AI.…

Stolen credentials edge out email tricks for cloud break-ins because they're so easy to get

Criminals used stolen credentials more frequently than email phishing to gain access into their victims' IT systems last year, marking the first time that compromised login details claimed the number two spot in Mandiant's list of most common initial infection vectors.…

Former Microsoft engineer calls the Windows of today 'a tool that's a bit of an adversary'

Comment  Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has weighed in on why Microsoft moved from paid upgrades to Windows as a Service. As ever, the old adage applies – when the product is free, the product is probably you……

'Europe Stand Tall' campaign kicks off amid fear, uncertainty and doubt about Trump administration

Danish consultancy Netcompany is the latest European business to warn of dependency on US technology as unpredictability in the White House continues to eat away at trust in the country overseas.…

Bake in security now or pay later, says Mike Rogers

AI engineers should take a lesson from the early days of cybersecurity and bake safety and security into their models during development, rather than trying to bolt it on after the fact, according to former NSA boss Mike Rogers.…

Because nobody wants a bazillion volts zorching critical infrastructure

Japanese tech conglomerate NTT has created a drone that triggers lightning, is then struck by a heavenly bolt it instigated, and survives the experience – all in the name of preventing damage from natural lightning.…

Ten billion bucks coming in for a soft landing, customers may be about to experience a bumpy ride

Beleaguered aerospace giant Boeing has sold some of its “Digital Aviation Solutions” portfolio to private equity outfit Thoma Bravo.…

India and China deliver a nice milestone, with help from ancient internet history

Asia has become the second region in the world to reach 50 percent IPv6 capability, according to data from labs run by the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC).…

Meanwhile, OpenAI expresses an interest in unbundling Chrome from Google

Google has agreed to unbundle its Play Store and Android operating system in India, but only on smart TVs, and will also cough up a $2.4 million fine after being found to have breached competition law.…

IT guy says their claims are toothless – and they owe him $400K

A group of pediatric dental practices in North Carolina have accused a longtime contractor of refusing to return control of several web domains after his contract was terminated.…

Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals

After six years of work, Google's Privacy Sandbox, technology for delivering ads while protecting privacy, looks like dust in the wind.…

Uncle Sam says Chinese factories use proxies to dodge import taxes

world war fee  Solar panels made in a number of Southeast Asian countries face massive new import duties into America, some as steep as 3,521 percent, after a US Department of Commerce probe apparently found the countries were being used as tariff-dodging proxies for Chinese state-subsidized manufacturers.…

As cyber-agency faces cuts, makes noises about switching up program

Two top officials have resigned from Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, furthering fears of a brain drain amid White House cuts to the federal workforce.…

Receiver warns of ‘potential interferences’ and appoints senior British lawyers to oversee candidate nomination process

The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) will hold elections on June 23rd, perhaps giving the regional internet registry the chance to convene a board for the first time in three years.…

10 other certificates 'were mis-issued and have now been revoked'

Certificate issuer SSL.com’s domain validation system had an unfortunate bug that was exploited by miscreants to obtain, without authorization, digital certs for legit websites.…

On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts

Comment  Elon Musk's Trump-blessed DOGE unit has made a lot of noise and a lot of headlines for its heavy-handed hatchet tactics within supposedly bloated governmental organizations.…

Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes

Updated  A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash, creating security risks and giving the oligarch's artificial intelligence lab an inside track to train its models on government info.…

In effect: 'Ha ha – the government is borked and so are you'

Ransomware scumbags - potentially those behind the Fog gang - are channeling their inner Elon Musk with their latest ransom note, spotted by researchers at Trend Micro.…