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Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has banned the use of DeepSeek on federal government devices.…

AMD's chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the chip designer's Instinct accelerators will drive tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue in coming years, despite DeepSeek-inspired speculation that next-gen AI models may not need the same level of compute infrastructure used to produce such tools today.…

Google’s parent Alphabet has achieved $100 billion in annual net income for the first time.…

Google has published a new set of AI principles that don’t mention its previous pledge not to use the tech to develop weapons or surveillance tools that violate international norms.…

Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD's security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its processors to modify the silicon's behavior as they wish – but also demonstrated this by producing a microcode patch that makes the chips always output 4 when asked for a random number.…

Google is the latest target in the brewing US-China trade war, with Beijing hitting the search giant with an antitrust probe while rolling out fresh tariffs and export controls in response to new US levies on Chinese goods.…

A previously undisclosed group of FBI agents who investigate UFOs, or "unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs)," as the government calls them, are worried they may not survive an impending Trump-led political purge.…

Elon Musk's legal grudge against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft could soon be over – again – if a California judge responds favorably to the latest filings in the case.…

A security researcher says a backdoor masquerading as a legitimate Go programming language package used by thousands of organizations was left undetected for years.…

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says one of his aims when building the controversial spy‑tech company was to "power the West to its obvious innate superiority."…

US food and grocery delivery platform Grubhub says a security incident at a third-party service provider is to blame after user data was compromised.…

New York feds today unsealed a five-count criminal indictment charging a 22-year-old Canadian math prodigy with exploiting vulnerabilities in two decentralized finance protocols, allegedly using them to fraudulently siphon around $65 million from investors in the platforms.…

Eight out of the top ten semiconductor vendors recorded healthy revenue growth last year, fueled by burgeoning GPU and AI processor sales to datacenter customers. Intel and Infineon were the notable exceptions.…

The Republic of Ireland's new AI minister should probably consult ChatGPT immediately to ask for pointers on how to do her job.…

Comment Users are still steering clear of Windows 11, with some customers describing the sales pitch as "like trying to sell sand at a beach."…

NHS execs admit that last year's cyberattack on hospitals in Wirral, northwest England, continues to "significantly" impact waiting times for cancer treatments, and suspect this will last for "months."…

Abandoned AWS S3 buckets could be reused to hijack the global software supply chain in an attack that would make Russia's "SolarWinds adventures look amateurish and insignificant," watchTowr Labs security researchers have claimed.…

Telecom watchdog Ofcom has granted a license application from Amazon Kuiper Services Europe for satellite connectivity in the UK.…

The UK's government spending watchdog has called on the current administration to make better use of technology to kickstart the misfiring economy and ensure better delivery public services amid tightened budgets.…

Google has released its February Android security updates, including a fix for a high-severity kernel-level vulnerability, which is suspected to be in use by targeted exploits.…