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Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week
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.…
US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts
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."…
ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK?
Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.…
Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks
Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year.…
Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive
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.…
Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger's industry £121M
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.…
Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft
The three wise Microsoft monkeys have spoken. If Windows Update displayed an error after installing the April 2025 Windows Recovery Environment release, you didn't see anything. Best to ignore it and move on.…
EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits
The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.…
Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption
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.…
South Korea reports tech exports surged ahead of Trump tariffs
Tech manufacturers worked overtime in early 2025 to produce hardware before the US imposed tariffs that would increase the prices punters pay for product.…
Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029
Nvidia wants to build and sell up to half a trillion US dollars of American-made AI supercomputer equipment over the next four years, with the help of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, aka TSMC, and its partners.…
Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix
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.…
Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months
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.…
New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029
CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new SSL/TLS certs to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.…
Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B
A decade after gobbling up Altera, Intel is loosening its grip. On Monday, the x86 giant said it's flogging a 51 percent stake in the FPGA slinger to private equity firm Silver Lake.…
Cyber congressman demands answers before CISA gets cut down to size
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."…
Resellers may be sitting on costly pile of regret after US smartphone shopping spree
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.…
Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server 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.…
Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp
Elon Musk's social media outfit X is again under the regulatory microscope in Europe – this time for allegedly using EU users' public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot, possibly without the transparency or legal basis required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…
White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades
The US administration appears set to slash NASA's science budget with cuts to spending in the order of almost 50 percent, according to a draft of the White House's proposal.…