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Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs
US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco.…
Dutch teen duo arrested over alleged 'Wi-Fi sniffing' for Russia
Infosec In Brief Police in the Netherlands arrested two 17-year-olds last week over claims that Russian intelligence recruited them to spy on the headquarters of European law enforcement agencies.…
Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline
Asia In Brief Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…
Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing
Comment Ending America's reliance on foreign chip fabs remains a high priority for Uncle Sam, but the Trump administration's "my way or the highway" approach to the issue threatens to do more harm than good.…
Hunt for RedNovember: Beijing hacked critical orgs in year-long snooping campaign
RedNovember, a Chinese state-sponsored cyberspy group, targeted government and critical private-sector networks around the globe between June 2024 and July 2025, exploiting buggy internet-facing appliances to deploy a Go-based backdoor called Pantegana and other offensive security tools, including Cobalt Strike and SparkRAT.…
Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up
Analysis Alibaba this week opened an AI war chest containing tens of billions of dollars, a revamped LLM lineup, and plans for AI datacenters in Europe. But it also prompted a flurry of questions over how it will achieve all this in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape, when critical resources are in short supply.…