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Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war
In the latest assault on China's burgeoning semiconductor industry, the Trump administration has erected new curbs on the sale of chip design software in the region.…
Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage
Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.…
Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans
The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called "pig butchering" scams reported to the FBI.…
Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud
Trump administration darling Palantir has scored another data-guzzling win by partnering with Fannie Mae to detect mortgage fraud using AI. …
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs
Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on some Windows 11 machines, mostly virtual ones, and dumping them into recovery mode with a boot error. Its only recommendation to avoid the problem for now is to dodge the update.…
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white collar jobs in five years.…
Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers
Chinese government spies burrowed deep into American telecommunications systems and critical infrastructure networks for one reason, according to retired US Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.…
Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing
Former employees of the US government's 18F tech modernization team have filed an appeal of their termination, arguing that the DOGE-led shuttering of their entire unit was illegal.…
Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cry
Nvidia is reportedly planning to open a new research and development facility in Shanghai, China, drawing sharp criticism from a pair of US lawmakers.…
Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy
There are two things keeping chief economists awake around the globe, if the World Economic Forum's latest survey is any indicator: US President Donald Trump's trade policies and AI.…
8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot
Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor access.…
Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels
Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has released the latest version of its messaging client, with some handy extras.…
Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff
Salesforce is promising every Slack user a "digital teammate" to help with tasks such as providing summaries of channels and taking notes from meetings. And responding to office banter on the user's behalf, The Register can only assume.…
US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media
The US government says it'll refuse visas to foreign officials judged to have censored social media posts of American citizens - a move aimed at countries trying to stem the flow of online misinformation.…
Billions of cookies up for grabs as experts warn over session security
A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable.…
Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules
The European Commission (EC) this week released the full text of its decision that found Apple in violation of its digital competition rules, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA).…
OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort
A research organization claims that OpenAI machine learning model o3 might prevent itself from being shut down in some circumstances while completing an unrelated task.…
European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups
The European Commission (EC) has kicked off a scheme to make Europe a better place to nurture global technology businesses, providing support throughout their lifecycle, from startup through to maturity.…
Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users
Sardina hopes to entice anyone still using SUSE Enterprise Storage (SES) over to FishOS instead with a price-based hook: a license fee of €1 per core, regardless of storage volume.…
China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home
China’s National Space Agency today launched the nation’s first asteroid sample mission.…