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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.…
Tech hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, economic uncertainty, more collide
The hint of optimism to be found in February's tech jobs numbers? Yeah, it's pretty much gone, according to multiple analyses of the latest data out from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for March. …
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract
The UK's justice department has confirmed it is working on developing algorithms to predict which criminals will later become murderers.…
Google's got a hot cloud security startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz
Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market.…
FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever
The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS – but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal.…
Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0
Microsoft has thrown up a Windows 11 24H2 compatibility hold for devices running SenseShield Technology's sprotect.sys driver.…
UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants
The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has appointed a second tranche of program leaders and announced new program areas, suggesting confidence in its long-term funding.…
Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users
Microsoft has published seven tips for getting the most out of Windows 11, and the pitches for the operating system – which has failed to win hearts and minds of users – are not very compelling.…
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you
A startup backed by Sandia National Laboratories thinks it's found a cool new way to keep the world's supercomputers and datacenters cool enough to run efficiently: Zap ‘em with lasers.…
Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it
The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators tell AI developers whether it’s OK to use their work.…
DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale
The United States Social Security Administration's internet portal has frequently gone offline in recent weeks, and presented inaccurate or incomplete information to users, perhaps because of changes steered by Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit.…
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home
A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and at their homes.…