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Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war

Fri, 2025-05-30 01:01
Cadence Systems, Synopsys, and Siemens among those subject to export licenses targeting Middle Kingdom

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.…

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Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage

Fri, 2025-05-30 00:33
Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look

Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.…

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Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans

Fri, 2025-05-30 00:15
Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams

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.…

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Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud

Thu, 2025-05-29 22:25
Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye

Trump administration darling Palantir has scored another data-guzzling win by partnering with Fannie Mae to detect mortgage fraud using AI. …

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Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs

Thu, 2025-05-29 21:46
'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message

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.…

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Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful

Thu, 2025-05-29 21:13
It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white collar jobs in five years.…

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Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers

Thu, 2025-05-29 19:51
House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley

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.…

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Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing

Thu, 2025-05-29 19:26
18F says the whole thing was political

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.…

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Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cry

Thu, 2025-05-29 18:06
Banks and Warren accuse chip maker of habitual 'disregard for US national security and support for autocratic regimes'

Nvidia is reportedly planning to open a new research and development facility in Shanghai, China, drawing sharp criticism from a pair of US lawmakers.…

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Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy

Thu, 2025-05-29 17:34
Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker

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.…

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8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot

Thu, 2025-05-29 16:23
No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect

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.…

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Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels

Thu, 2025-05-29 15:28
One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it

Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has released the latest version of its messaging client, with some handy extras.…

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Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff

Thu, 2025-05-29 14:28
No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight

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.…

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US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media

Thu, 2025-05-29 13:33
Against backdrop of EU rules on spread of misinfo plus UK probing role of online hate in far right riots

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.…

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Billions of cookies up for grabs as experts warn over session security

Thu, 2025-05-29 12:23
Law enforcement crackdowns are gathering pace but online marketplaces still teeming with valuable tokens

A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable.…

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Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules

Thu, 2025-05-29 11:39
Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish

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).…

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OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort

Thu, 2025-05-29 10:35
Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims

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.…

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European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups

Thu, 2025-05-29 09:26
Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up

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.…

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Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users

Thu, 2025-05-29 08:30
Wiggles tiny price for FishOS Ceph-based wares as deprecation of Ceph continues

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.…

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China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home

Thu, 2025-05-29 07:27
Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet

China’s National Space Agency today launched the nation’s first asteroid sample mission.…

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