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Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked

Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities, and users' IP addresses.…

There's a new tariff in town

World War Fee  Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors.…

Beijing tries to find an off-ramp but also fights back with export bans

World War Fee  The Trump administration’s strategy to use tariffs on imports as an incentive for businesses to move their manufacturing plants to the USA took a new turn over the weekend after it announced exemptions for some goods, denied the exemptions were new, then said it plans further tariffs on high-tech goods.…

Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches

With rack space at a premium amid unrelenting demand for datacenter capacity, more modular solutions are hitting the market to speed deployment times, even for infrastructure prefabricated for AI training.…

Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act

China's state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US National Security Agency of targeting the 2025 Asian Winter Games.…

Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door

The proposed cuts to NASA's budget are drawing sharp criticism from US lawmakers, with one saying: "If you cut this budget, you cut into the heart of America's leadership when it comes to space exploration."…

Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right?

Microsoft has warned administrators that less than half a year remains until support ends for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. However, the follow-up, Exchange Server SE, won't arrive for another few months.…

Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy

Updated  In June 2024, users of the OneDrive sync client for macOS and Windows began reporting that shared folders had vanished from their local drives, replaced with web shortcuts.…

Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger

Databricks, the machine learning and data lake biz valued at around $62 billion, is contributing to the open source Iceberg table format preferred by rivals in the market.…

Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again)

A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China's Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT) that's "even better" than Cobalt Strike, using this stealthy backdoor to enable its espionage and access resale campaigns.…

Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century's tech

Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.…

Analysts say the bubble won't burst, but it is possible, admits world's largest colo provider

Interview  Those who ignore history are destined to repeat mistakes of the past and, with signs of an inflating bit barn spending bubble, comparisons are being made with the infamous dotcom bust a quarter of a century ago.…

You can't keep a good OS down

The first Intel-based Mac was 19 years ago, but new versions of apps for both Classic Mac OS and PowerPC Mac OS X still occasionally appear, and we are here for it.…

UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical

To mark World Quantum Day, the UK government says it will stump up a £121 million ($158 million) investment in the ever-distant technology that proponents claim has the potential to shake up the world.…

When the power went out, they didn’t switch on

Google has revealed that a recent six-hour outage at one of its cloudy regions was caused by uninterruptible power supplies not doing their job.…

Meanwhile in China, factories that work for Apple and HP are reportedly closing some production lines

Tech manufacturers worked overtime in early 2025 to produce hardware before the US imposed tariffs that would increase the prices punters pay for product.…

Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not

Canny Windows users who've spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week's security patches for the operating system can rest assured – it's perfectly benign. In fact, it's recommended you leave the directory there.…

What's the goal here, Homeland Insecurity or something?

As drastic cuts to the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency loom, Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA), the ranking member of the House's cybersecurity subcommittee, has demanded that CISA brief the subcommittee "prior to any significant changes to CISA's workforce or organizational structure."…

Q1 sector growth unlikely to survive current trade policy

Profiteering resellers stateside filled up on smartphone inventory in calendar Q1 before the scheduled imposition of US tariffs, which have rocked global stock prices and US Treasury bonds since April 2.…

Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal!

Arizona electronics supplier Avnet has accused California semiconductor design firm Ampere Computing of going against its word and backing out of a server purchasing deal.…