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European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan

Fri, 2025-06-06 06:30
One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger'

European leaders on Thursday announced an International Digital Strategy designed to help the bloc address technological change at a time of global political realignment.…

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Toshiba realises it can build, power, and maintain datacenters – so builds a team to do it all

Fri, 2025-06-06 04:28
Show us another company that builds power plants, semiconductors, and hard disks

Japanese industrial giant Toshiba has created an internal organization to make itself more attractive to datacenter builders and operators.…

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Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles

Fri, 2025-06-06 02:39
Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away

Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to deliver strong revenue and margin growth, and the company expects demand for AI hardware will do likewise in coming years.…

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Japan's latest Moon landing looks to have failed after ispace probe goes dark

Thu, 2025-06-05 23:50
Latest telemetry has it 200 meters underground

Japanese firm ispace’s latest attempt to land a craft on the Moon appears to have failed, after its Hakuto-R lander, dubbed Reliance, went dark while approaching the lunar surface.…

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Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on RedLine dev and Russia-backed cronies

Thu, 2025-06-05 23:04
Any info on Maxim Rudometov and his associates? There's $$$ in it for you

The US government is offering up to $10 million for information on foreign government-backed threat actors linked to the RedLine malware, including its suspected developer, Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov.…

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AT&T not sure if new customer data dump is déjà vu

Thu, 2025-06-05 22:05
Re-selling info from an earlier breach? Probably. But which one?

AT&T is investigating claims that millions of its customers' data are listed for sale on a cybercrime forum in what appears to be a re-release from an earlier hack.…

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Senate dishes out second helping of SAMOSA to kill costly software licenses

Thu, 2025-06-05 21:03
House version of software license management bill introduced in March has yet to budge amid distractions

Sloppy government software licensing practices are back on the menu in the US Senate. …

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Trump official warns they're putting the squeeze on CHIPS Act winners

Thu, 2025-06-05 20:32
Commerce secretary wants bigger bang for taxpayers' buck

Chipmakers waiting on billions of dollars of CHIPS Act funding should be prepared to return to the negotiating table, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested during a Senate hearing this week.…

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Cellebrite buys Corellium to help cops bust phone encryption

Thu, 2025-06-05 20:10
Trump-pardoned hacker Chris Wade will join the company as CTO

Cellebrite has announced a $170 million deal to buy Corellium, bringing together two companies that have made names for themselves by helping law enforcement break into encrypted devices.…

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Trump’s cyber czar pick grilled over CISA cuts: ‘If we have a cyber 9/11, you’re the guy’

Thu, 2025-06-05 19:40
Plus: Plankey's confirmation process 'temporarily delayed'

Sean Cairncross, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as national cyber director, doubled down on taking offensive cyber actions against foreign adversaries during a Senate homeland security committee nomination hearing on Thursday, and refused to condemn the president's proposed cuts to the main US cyber defense agency.…

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Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman

Thu, 2025-06-05 18:41
OpenAI CEO enjoys speculative love-in with Snowflake boss as critics worry over what 1,000X compute would do to the planet

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week speculated that “most people” would have assumed Artificial General Intelligence had arrived if they'd they seen ChatGPT in action before its arrival in 2020.…

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Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

Thu, 2025-06-05 18:17
No matter who wins, the US EV industry is likely to lose, expert tells us

Elon Musk has publicly broken with Donald Trump over the latter's budget reconciliation bill, calling it a "pork-filled … abomination" that would undermine the work his DOGE cost-cutting unit has done. But the bill also hits close to Tesla tycoon's pocketbook, and at least one expert thinks it spells terrible news for the US electric vehicle industry overall.…

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BidenCash busted as Feds nuke stolen credit card bazaar

Thu, 2025-06-05 17:06
Dark web crime platform raked in $17M+ over three years of operation

Uncle Sam has seized 145 domains tied to BidenCash, the notorious dark web market that trafficked in more than 15 million stolen credit cards.…

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AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi

Thu, 2025-06-05 15:31
Mini computer house comes out against 'vibe coding' fad

Raspberry Pi, a company started with the aim of democratizing computing and recreating the programming frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code.…

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More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user

Thu, 2025-06-05 14:33
Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks

Sophos thinks a single person or group called "ischhfd83" is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals and video game cheaters looking to get their hands on malicious code.…

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LinkedIn CEO takes on second gig to lead Microsoft Office and M365 Copilot

Thu, 2025-06-05 13:22
Redmond doubles down on AI by doubling Ryan Roslansky's workload

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky is to lead the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot teams in the latest Redmond reshuffle.…

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Datacenters have a public image problem, industry confesses to The Reg

Thu, 2025-06-05 12:37
'Most people are f**king scared of AI, like we're feeding a monster'

The current craze for AI has helped drive a wave of datacenter building, but the industry has run into opposition from local communities in many areas, something it is understandably keen to address.…

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Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture

Thu, 2025-06-05 11:24
Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in

It's been a year since Databricks bought Tabular for $1 billion, livening up the sleepy world of table formats.…

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HMRC: Crooks broke into 100k accounts, stole £43M from British taxpayer in late 2024

Thu, 2025-06-05 10:34
It’s definitely not a cyberattack though! Really!

The UK's tax collections agency says cyberbaddies defrauded it of £47 million ($63 million) late last year, but insists the criminal case was not a cyberattack.…

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UK tech job openings climb 21% to pre-pandemic highs

Thu, 2025-06-05 09:48
Accenture points to AI hiring spree, with London dominating demand

UK tech vacancies are up by 21 percent to hit their highest levels since before the pandemic, according to research from Accenture.…

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