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AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed
AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters if only the licensing costs of doing so were not prohibitively high and a competitive deterrent.…
ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets
Euro tech giant ASML hit its revenue guidance last quarter and still expects the coffers to swell this year, but order bookings are down as Trump's tariff turmoil casts uncertainty over the entire industry.…
Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite
Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux event.…
In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield
Digital forensics in the UK is in need of reform, says one expert, as the deadline to advise the government on computer evidence rules arrives.…
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing
Microsoft Teams experienced a file-sharing outage overnight that disrupted collaboration for many users and forced the software biz to roll back a recent backend change.…
Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector
In 2022, the UK's tax collector put £4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) on the table to help its applications become "less dependent upon legacy technologies." The extent to which His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) achieved that goal is debatable, but there is no doubt it intends to spend up to £5.2 billion ($6.9 billion) more to continue the job.…
TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails
TalkTalk Business customers were forced to survive without email nearly a week after a technical fault disrupted domain hosting.…
Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails
Apple, having starved its AI models of data by respecting customer privacy, plans to improve its chatbot suggestions by using made-up emails.…
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files
Ransomware operators jack up their ransom demands by a factor of 2.8x if they detect a victim has cyber-insurance, a study highlighted by the Netherlands government has confirmed.…
South Korea to build mini-fabs as part of $25 billion plan to prop up tariff-targeted industries
South Korea has decided to dish out over $25 billion in help to industries impacted by the USA’s new tariff regime.…
Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission yesterday ordered Google to stop doing deals that require manufacturers of Android handsets to include its apps.…
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter
World War Fee The Trump administration's latest salvo in the US-China trade war has forced Nvidia to take a $5.5 billion charge, the GPU goliath revealed in a Tuesday regulatory filing that sent its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.…
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…
Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops
World war fee Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of thine actions. The Trump administration's global trade war is threatening to hit US military readiness.…
Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz
A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed.…
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again
Meta on Monday said it plans to start training its AI models using public posts and comments shared by adults in the EU, along with interactions users have with its chatbot.…
4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum
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.…
Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips
World War Fee Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors.…
China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks
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.…
All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge
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.…