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European biz calls for Euro tech for local people
Danish consultancy Netcompany is the latest European business to warn of dependency on US technology as unpredictability in the White House continues to eat away at trust in the country overseas.…
Ex-NSA chief warns AI devs: Don’t repeat infosec’s early-day screwups
AI engineers should take a lesson from the early days of cybersecurity and bake safety and security into their models during development, rather than trying to bolt it on after the fact, according to former NSA boss Mike Rogers.…
Fujitsu promised to sit out UK deals ... then Northern Ireland called with £125M
Fujitsu has won a £125 million ($167 million) contract to build Northern Ireland's new land registry system, despite promising not to bid for UK public sector work in the wake of the Post Office Horizon scandal.…
America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside
Opinion We almost lost the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database system, but that's only the tip of the iceberg of what President Trump and company are doing to US cybersecurity efforts.…
NTT creates a drone that triggers and catches lightning – then keeps flying
Japanese tech conglomerate NTT has created a drone that triggers lightning, is then struck by a heavenly bolt it instigated, and survives the experience – all in the name of preventing damage from natural lightning.…
Boeing offloads some software businesses to private equiteer Thoma Bravo
Beleaguered aerospace giant Boeing has sold some of its “Digital Aviation Solutions” portfolio to private equity outfit Thoma Bravo.…
Asia reaches 50 percent IPv6 capability and leads the world in user numbers
Asia has become the second region in the world to reach 50 percent IPv6 capability, according to data from labs run by the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC).…
India gets Google to unbundle Android and the Play Store on Smart TVs
Google has agreed to unbundle its Play Store and Android operating system in India, but only on smart TVs, and will also cough up a $2.4 million fine after being found to have breached competition law.…
Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised
World War Fee President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration plans to lower the 145 percent tariffs it levies on goods imported into America from China, continuing his pattern of unpredictable shifts in policy.…
Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE
Government fixer Elon Musk says his days steering the Trump-blessed cost-trimming, data-scouring DOGE unit are all but done.…
Dentists sue ex-contractor for holding web domains hostage in biz fight
A group of pediatric dental practices in North Carolina have accused a longtime contractor of refusing to return control of several web domains after his contract was terminated.…
US to slap up to 3,521% tariffs on SE Asian solar imports – especially you, Cambodia
world war fee Solar panels made in a number of Southeast Asian countries face massive new import duties into America, some as steep as 3,521 percent, after a US Department of Commerce probe apparently found the countries were being used as tariff-dodging proxies for Chinese state-subsidized manufacturers.…
RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox
After six years of work, Google's Privacy Sandbox, technology for delivering ads while protecting privacy, looks like dust in the wind.…
Two CISA officials jump ship, both proud of pushing for Secure by Design software
Two top officials have resigned from Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, furthering fears of a brain drain amid White House cuts to the federal workforce.…
Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks
Ransomware scumbags - potentially those behind the Fog gang - are channeling their inner Elon Musk with their latest ransom note, spotted by researchers at Trend Micro.…
A pot of $250K is now available to ransomware researchers, but it feeds a commercial product
Ransomware threat hunters can now collect rewards of $10,000 for each piece of intel they file under a new bug bounty that aims to squash extortionists.…
This is not just any 'cyber incident' … this is an M&S 'cyber incident'
UK high street mainstay Marks & Spencer told the London Stock Exchange this afternoon it has been managing a "cyber incident" for "the past few days."…
UN says Asian scam call center epidemic expanding globally amid political heat
Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide "like a cancer," according to the United Nations, which warns the epidemic has reached a global inflection point as syndicates scale up and spread out.…
Relax, AWS reassessing colo lease talks is just 'routine capacity management'
Amazon has joined Microsoft in pausing some datacenter leasing deals, sparking fresh concerns about whether the AI hype train may be running out of steam.…
SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule docks to the International Space Station
SpaceX's latest cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) – CRS-32 – just successfully docked to the orbiting outpost, bringing extra crew supplies at the expense of several science payloads.…