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Panic buying ahead of Trump tariffs added $825 million to Apple's sales last quarter

Fri, 2025-08-01 05:31
iBiz warns import imposts set to rise

World War Fee The USA’s evolving tariff policy wasn't all bad news for Apple, which manufactures most of its products overseas.…

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US lowers tariffs on major tech exporting nations - but buyers will still pay more

Fri, 2025-08-01 04:36
Malaysia's attitude of 'This could be worse and our neighbours are copping it too' is a typical response

World War Fee US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced new tariff rates that reduce the import duties on goods from several major tech-producing nations.…

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AI is contributing to Meta’s growth – just not the kind anyone cares about

Fri, 2025-08-01 02:40
Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what’s really paying for Zuck’s genAI splurge

Believe it or not, Meta's AI investments made a meaningful difference to its advertising business in Q2 — it's just that those models aren't the kind that's got everyone, including the Social Network, plowing tens of billions of dollars a year into datacenters.…

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Amazon is spending a boatload on AI but investors are impatient for results

Thu, 2025-07-31 23:35
Hang in there, it's early days, insists CEO Andy Jassy

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy insists "AI will change every customer experience," but it's making investors nervous.…

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Ex-CISA chief slams MAGA 'manufactured outrage' after sudden West Point firing

Thu, 2025-07-31 23:17
US Army Sec appears to fold under pressure from far-right conspiracy theorist

comment Jen Easterly has weighed in on the US Army Secretary firing her from a prestigious West Point teaching post a day after the US Military Academy announced the appointment.…

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New Google AI model maps world in 10-meter squares for machines to read

Thu, 2025-07-31 21:05
DeepMind geospatial AI model offers comprehensive view of Earth image data

Google has released a new AI model that maps the world in 10-meter squares for machines to read.…

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Tesla starts sort-of Robotaxi service in San Francisco by invite only

Thu, 2025-07-31 20:35
There's a driver at the wheel

Elon Musk's goal of a fully autonomous car that could serve as a Robotaxi is getting another trial this week, albeit with a human operator behind the wheel.…

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As ransomware gangs threaten physical harm, 'I am afraid of what's next,' ex-negotiator says

Thu, 2025-07-31 20:05
Crims warned 40% of respondents that they and their families would suffer

Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands.…

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Gene scanner pays $9.8 million to get feds off its back in security flap

Thu, 2025-07-31 19:30
Illumina allegedly lied about its testing devices meeting government standards

Biotech firm Illumina has agreed to cut the US government a check for the eminently affordable amount of $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it has been selling the feds genetic testing systems riddled with security vulnerabilities the company knew about but never bothered to fix.…

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Altman embraces inner Viking, raids Europe with 100K GPU supercluster in Norway

Thu, 2025-07-31 18:58
Facility to be built with $1 billion investment from Nscale and Aker

OpenAI's Stargate initiative has teleported to Europe, where the AI flag bearer has enlisted datacenter builder Nscale and Norwegian energy magnate Aker ASA to deploy a 100,000-GPU compute cluster in the Arctic by 2026.…

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NIST discovers DevSecOps, thinks world should really check this out

Thu, 2025-07-31 18:29
What's next - gonna tell us it's time to migrate to Windows 8?

Watch out, world: The US government has finally found out about DevSecOps, and it has become a late evangelist for the security-by-default software development practice.…

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Microsoft's Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake

Thu, 2025-07-31 18:01
No way this will be abused

Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.…

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Beijing summons Nvidia over alleged backdoors in China-bound AI chips

Thu, 2025-07-31 17:16
H20 silicon under the microscope after slipping through US export bans

China's internet watchdog has hauled Nvidia in for a grilling over alleged backdoors in its H20 chips, the latest twist in the increasingly paranoid semiconductor spat between Washington and Beijing.…

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Microsoft removes the whiff of Vista from Windows 11 Insider Preview

Thu, 2025-07-31 16:34
Trauma-inducing startup sound finally axed

Great news! Microsoft has finally squashed a Windows 11 Insider bug. No, it still hasn't "Made the Start Menu Great Again." No, you still can't drag the taskbar wherever you like. But yes, it simply kills the bug that played the Windows Vista boot chime on startup.…

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Arm plots move up the stack with push into end-to-end silicon

Thu, 2025-07-31 16:32
Brit chip biz sees demand surge for turnkey compute subsystems, chiplets, and complete SoC designs

Chip designer Arm says it is looking to bring more compute subsystems, chiplets, and even end-to-end solutions to market as customers increasingly expect a more complete starting point for their custom silicon.…

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Kremlin goons caught abusing ISPs to spy on Moscow-based diplomats, Microsoft says

Thu, 2025-07-31 16:00
Russia spying on foreign embassies? Say it ain't so

Russian cyberspies are abusing local internet service providers' networks to target foreign embassies in Moscow and collect intel from diplomats' devices, according to a Microsoft Threat Intelligence warning.…

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Silk Typhoon spun a web of patents for offensive cyber tools, report says

Thu, 2025-07-31 15:00
US court docs reveal that infamous Chinese snoops filed IP papers like tax returns

Security researchers have uncovered more than a dozen patents for offensive cybersecurity tools filed by Chinese companies allegedly tied to Beijing's Silk Typhoon espionage crew.…

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Canonical dusts off TPM encryption for Ubuntu 25.10

Thu, 2025-07-31 14:15
Passwordless disk locking is coming, a couple of years later than hoped

Canonical's Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop has published a roadmap for the 25.10 release, which includes a feature that was originally planned for 23.10.…

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Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with 'strategic market status'

Thu, 2025-07-31 13:34
Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published

Britain's competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate both with strategic market status (SMS) to take action against them.…

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Figma debuts on Wall Street at $33 per share – still shy of abandoned Adobe deal

Thu, 2025-07-31 13:00
Investors cash in as design firm goes public after takeover dreams dashed

Figma is offering 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at $33 apiece, in an initial public offering that values the web design tool developer at $19.3 billion.…

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