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Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack
World War Fee As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace.…
OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?
The UK government's AI Energy Council held its first meeting this week, in an attempt to square the circle of its AI ambitions with the state of the country's power infrastructure and having the most expensive energy in Europe.…
Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records
UK health professionals remain "skeptical" about electronic patient records, despite the NHS in England achieving more than 90 percent coverage.…
Europol: Five pay-per-infect suspects cuffed, some spill secrets to cops
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.…
Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you
In the last twelve months generative AI has transformed from a helpful and cheeky tool into something more worrying.…
<i>The Reg</i> translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
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.…
Fear of tariffs made the PC market great again in Q1 as vendors emptied factories to dodge price hikes
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.…
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in
Cloud Next This week Google joined a throng of tech vendors pushing the concept of "agentic AI" on an unsuspecting and perhaps unreceptive collection of enterprise users. Questions remain about how effective this tranche of tools will be at solving business problems and how much it might all cost.…
Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons
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.…
Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs
The Trump administration on Wednesday ordered a criminal investigation into alleged censorship conducted by the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, plus revocation of any security clearances held by the agency's ex-head Chris Krebs and anyone else at SentinelOne, the cybersecurity company where he now works.…
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager
Apple has agreed to settle charges of labor rights violations filed with America's employment watchdog by whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik.…
Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown
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.…
Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board
Clearview AI has booted founder and former CEO Hoan Ton-That from its board, just weeks after he stepped down as president.…
April's Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login
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.…
Wyden blocks Trump's CISA boss nominee, blames cyber agency for 'actively hiding info' about telecom insecurity
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.…
Sensitive financial files feared stolen from US bank watchdog
A US banking regulator fears sensitive financial oversight data was stolen from its IT systems in what's been described as "a major information security incident."…
Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right
World War Fee President Trump's trade war with China kicked into gear this week. The upshot is Americans face having to pay more for products and components sourced from the Middle Kingdom, as the eye-watering import tariffs on the gear are set to be passed onto them.…
EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted
World War Fee The EU voted Wednesday to introduce 25 percent import tariffs on American goods, with the first duties being collected from European consumers on April 15. Bear in mind this action is a response to US President Donald Trump's earlier steel tariffs, and not the April 2 "tariff liberation day" duty hike.…
Commercial space station outfit plans two Orbital Data Center nodes by the end of 2025
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.…
Microsoft puts $1B US datacenter builds on hold amid AI, tariff uncertainty
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 concerns over AI demand.…