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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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HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM

Thu, 2025-06-05 08:30
Freshly acquired cloud darling talks mainframes, Ansible, and influencing Big Blue at HashiDays event

HashiCorp is now an IBM company, with one staffer remarking: "We're actually quite happy for it, most of us sitting in this room at least."…

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Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

Thu, 2025-06-05 07:28
Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse

US Coast Guard and civilian vessels have rescued 22 sailors off the coast of Alaska after some of the electric cars they were transporting caught fire.…

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AI kept 15-year-old zombie vuln alive, but its time is drawing near

Thu, 2025-06-05 06:29
Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010

A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers' attempts on its life.…

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Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia

Thu, 2025-06-05 05:35
Who can begrudge them? Maybe all of us if IP brokers send them to loose operators

Ukrainian telcos and ISPs have leased their IPv4 holdings to stay afloat during the nation’s war with Russia.…

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China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help

Thu, 2025-06-05 04:49
The authors who claimed America hacked itself to discredit Beijing are back with another report

Beijing complains it’s under relentless attack by the equivalent of an ant trying to shake a tree China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on Thursday published a report in which it claims Taiwan targeted it with a years-long but feeble cyber offensive, backed by the USA.…

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IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why

Thu, 2025-06-05 02:32
To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password

IBM isn’t having its best week after the company experienced another cloudy outage and a critical-rated vulnerability.…

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Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI

Thu, 2025-06-05 00:23
All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site

Reddit, the popular internet discussion forum, sued Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that the AI biz scraped content generated by its users in violation of contractual terms and technical barriers.…

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If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says

Wed, 2025-06-04 23:59
New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight

Mounting losses and financial turmoil has Intel cutting the deadweight, an effort that won’t end with axing staff.…

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Play ransomware crims exploit SimpleHelp flaw in double-extortion schemes

Wed, 2025-06-04 23:40
Recompiled binaries and phone threats used to boost the pressure

Groups linked with the Play ransomware have exploited more than 900 organizations, the FBI said Wednesday, and have developed a number of new techniques in their double-extortion campaigns - including exploiting a security flaw in remote-access tool SimpleHelp if orgs haven't patched it.…

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GlobalFoundries commits $3B more to US fabs in Trump tariff flex

Wed, 2025-06-04 21:25
Silicon photonics and gallium nitride a major focus

GlobalFoundries plans to funnel another $3 billion into US semiconductor production, bringing its total investment to $16 billion, the New York-based foundry operator said on Wednesday.…

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Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Wed, 2025-06-04 20:53
Drones are not enough

Following a daring drone attack on Russian airfields, Ukrainian military intelligence has reportedly also hacked the servers of Tupolev, the Kremlin's strategic bomber maker.…

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