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Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears
The Dutch government has placed Nexperia - a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain's Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures that threaten European tech security.…
We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills
Opinion When I was a wet-behind-the-ears developer running my programs on an IBM 360, a mainframe that was slower than a Raspberry Pi Zero W, my machine used about 50 kilowatts (kW). I thought that was a lot of power. Little did I know what was coming.…
Senators try to save cyber threat sharing law, sans government funding
in brief A bipartisan Senate duo has introduced a bill to revive and extend America's cyber threat-sharing law for another ten years after its authorization lapsed during the government shutdown.…
Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again
The government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site is weighing up whether to keep its legacy SAP software running beyond the vendor's extended support deadline.…
Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise
Opinion The successful, sector-defining, open source Italian embedded platform provider Arduino had a little bash in Turin recently. It made a few announcements, including a new single-board computer (SBC) with a Qualcomm system on a chip (SoC). Oh, and that it had been bought by American dragon-themed mobile chip monster Qualcomm in a deal with total fealty (WTF).…
UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders
The British government is putting out feelers to industry ahead of the procurement process for the country's most powerful supercomputer, set to begin next year.…
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company
Who, Me? Welcome to another week of nimble newsifying from The Register, which as always kicks off the working week with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes that almost trashed your career.…
Inside the belly of the beast: A technical walk through Intel's 18A production facility at Fab52
deep dive Not long after rejoining Intel in 2021, former CEO Pat Gelsinger announced an ambitious plan to reinvent the chipmaker as a contract semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse.…
Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual
A venture capital fund is looking for ideas that are out of bounds for traditional investors, seeding technology that may only come to fruition decades down the line, but where researchers can show real results in the lab.…
Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide
Most corporate laptop fleets consist primarily of PCs. However, there’s always a contingent of users who beg for Macs. Deciding who gets a Mac in your organization involves balancing IT’s need for simplicity, finance’s requirement to keep costs under control, and users’ desire to work with their preferred tools.…
Chinese phishing kit helps scammers who send fake texts impersonate TikTok, Coinbase, others
Exclusive A Chinese-developed phishing kit hosted on thousands of domains and boasting 97 different brands to make criminals' scams look more believable is driving a surge in financial fraud around the globe, according to security researchers.…
OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias
OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…
Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI
ai-pocalypse Business leaders are racing to jump aboard the AI bandwagon, and a new study from the British Standards Institute suggests young college grads are being hit hardest.…
Ransomware crims that exploited SharePoint 0-days add Velociraptor to their arsenal
The ransomware gang caught exploiting Microsoft SharePoint zero-days over the summer has added a new tool to its arsenal: Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response app not previously tied to ransomware incidents.…
Kyndryl sued for firing non-white workers, disabled vet
Five former members of Kyndryl's internal IT security team have sued the IBM spinoff alleging that they were terminated as part of a campaign targeting employees based on their race, national origin, age, disability, and whistleblowing activities.…
Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls
The US Senate has passed a provision that would give US firms first dibs on advanced chips, just as China tightens customs checks on Nvidia GPUs, leaving the company caught between competing policies across the Pacific.…
Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing
Security research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and there's no patch available.…
Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot
Microsoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest.…
Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap
Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.…
Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.…