Live Nation CFO on Taylor Swift ticket chaos: Don't blame me, bots made me crazy
Attack was three times the size of anything company had seen – they couldn't shake it off
Offbeat24 Jan 2023 | 20
United States of America
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Feature How did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement?
Science22 Jan 2023 | 653
US chip ban left back door in Beijing-controlled Macau for months
Until Tuesday, when the former Portuguese colony was added to the 'You Shall Not Pass' list
Systems18 Jan 2023 | 5
US sanctions drain Huawei of homegrown advanced chips
Huawei to the chipless zone prediction
Systems21 Dec 2022 | 19
TSMC’s CEO is not pleased with the growing US-China rift
Leader of the the world's largest contract chip manufacturer would like it if the two world powers could work out their differences
Systems21 Dec 2022 | 18
US sanctions help vaporize chunk of Chinese chip barons’ wealth
Beijing's 'military-civil fusion' doctrine suffers multi-billion dollar blowback
Systems20 Dec 2022 | 8
NARROWER TOPICS
GPUs dodge price hike as US extends China tariff deadline beyond 2022
Happy New Year! Concession is made on GPUs and other parts
Systems19 Dec 2022 |
Latest US blacklist spells trouble for China’s biggest domestic 3D NAND supplier
Analysis One research firm thinks YMTC may have to exit 3D NAND altogether
Systems18 Dec 2022 | 20
Chipmakers to spend $500b on 84 new fabs by 2024 despite shaky economy
We sure do love those government subsidies, says industry cheerleader
Systems15 Dec 2022 | 4
States label TikTok 'a malicious and menacing threat'
Texas bucks app off government devices as Indiana takes social media biz to court
Security08 Dec 2022 | 23
Taiwan bans state-owned devices from running Chinese platform TikTok
US FCC Commissioner praises Taiwan’s security decision as US state governments follow suit
Security07 Dec 2022 | 15
Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan
Good luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia?
Legal06 Dec 2022 | 72
TSA to expand facial recognition across America
System is optional, for the moment
Security06 Dec 2022 | 17
US ends case against Huawei CFO who holed up in Canada for three years
Wanzhou Meng hasn't re-offended, so last possible charges have been dismissed
Legal05 Dec 2022 | 21
US commerce bosses view EU rules as threat to its clouds
Rules haven't been decided yet but others are already kicking up a stink
Off-Prem02 Dec 2022 | 139
ICE data dump reveals names, locations of 6,000+ asylum seekers
Your tax dollars at work
Personal Tech01 Dec 2022 | 9
TikTok NSFW if you work for the South Dakota government
Governor bans platform and website from all state-owned devices that can connect to the internet
Security30 Nov 2022 | 23
90+ groups warn US Senate of 'damaging consequences' from Kids Online Safety Act
The kids aren't alright
Personal Tech29 Nov 2022 | 11
US chip war could hurt the West as Beijing moves to ramp up its own industry
Nine Chinese semiconductor companies have had IPO applications approved
Systems28 Nov 2022 | 26
US bans Chinese telecoms imports – won't even consider authorizing them
Part bureaucratic box ticking, part crackdown that makes even Wi-Fi routers and smartphones off limits
Security27 Nov 2022 | 19
AI giant Baidu shrugs off US chip export restrictions as having 'little impact'
Says sanctions could even accelerate China's drive for silicon self-sufficiency
AI + ML24 Nov 2022 | 9
Republican senators tell FTC to back off data security, surveillance rules
And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either
Legal10 Nov 2022 | 24
Wells Fargo, Zelle slammed by Liz Warren over rampant online banking fraud
Customers 'more than twice' as likely to be hit by scams, says Dem Senator
Cyber-crime09 Nov 2022 | 34
Chipmakers cripple products to dodge US China ban
Nvidia’s A800 is the new A100, but slower, Biren’s A100 now 64GBps slower
Systems08 Nov 2022 | 34
Chinese employers sought a million hard core AI techies in five years
Pay is middling, hours are long, but millions of jobs are out there
AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 2
All the US midterm-related lies to expect when you're electing
Don't like the results? The election must have been rigged
Research07 Nov 2022 | 149
Japan officially joins NATO's cyber defense center
Already red-teaming and blue teaming in the international Locked Shields contest every year
Cyber-crime07 Nov 2022 | 4
Ransomware cost US banks $1.2 billion last year
Up 188% on 2020 but could be because financial institutions were encouraged to report incidents
Cyber-crime02 Nov 2022 | 2
Uncle Sam wants allies to join its anti-China chip crusade
As with the Destroy Huawei manual, US to pressure other countries to devise semiconductor sanctions
Systems02 Nov 2022 | 25
Is it any surprise that 'permacrisis' is the word of the year?
It's enough to make you want to sploot
Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 33
Kioxia warns of potential cost of US chip policy over China
Nice NAND industry you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it
Security01 Nov 2022 | 10
Pro-China crew ramps up disinfo ahead of US midterms. Not that anyone's falling for it
Hey, Xi, 滚开
Cyber-crime27 Oct 2022 | 16
China chip imports down 12.4% as tech trade war with US intensifies
That's 6.7 billion fewer chips than was delivered in September 2021
Systems24 Oct 2022 | 16
President Biden still wants his cybersecurity labels on those smart devices
May follow Finland and Germany in adopting Singapore's standard
Security20 Oct 2022 | 20
US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system
Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out
Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10
American techies in China may be breaking the law by showing up to work
Pundit tips next wave of bans will target foreign investment in Chinese tech
Legal14 Oct 2022 | 5
China doesn’t need to take Taiwan’s fabs to escape US trade bans
Comment Threatening to destroy them could give them just as much leverage, while averting all out war
Systems13 Oct 2022 | 22
Business can't make staff submit to video surveillance, says court
Chetu ordered to pay restitution for employee's unlawful termination
Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 76
South Korea relieved US China chip ban won't bite, as Beijing fumes
Asia In Brief PLUS: SK hynix outgasses Putin; Canon's new litho plant; Equinix into Indonesia; and more!
On-Prem10 Oct 2022 | 5
Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit
Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart
Security07 Oct 2022 | 4
Boss of Chinese memory maker Yangtze departs for no obvious reason
No 'corruption' alleged, rumours of a big win selling to Apple make shunting a little odd
On-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 6
China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech
World's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy
Science30 Sep 2022 | 64
How CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms
Top tip, don't give your secret login box the HTML form type 'password'
Research29 Sep 2022 | 37
UK, US slip down World Digital Competitiveness Ranking
Denmark takes top spot, Croatia improves fastest, Hong Kong flops
Software29 Sep 2022 | 12
UN's ITU election may spell the end of our open internet
Updated Russia, China believe in more national control, maybe baked into standards. Resistance is fierce - and was victorious!
Networks29 Sep 2022 | 67
Microsoft China turns 30, gives nation the gift of jobs and export promotion
Including assistance for the kind of companies the US is keen to contain
Software27 Sep 2022 | 4
US to relax restrictions for tech companies in Iran
With censorship looming, US wants to bring internet, communications companies into fray
Networks26 Sep 2022 | 6
Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms
Updated Culture wars may have come to gentle tales of tweens enjoying friends, fun, programming
Software26 Sep 2022 | 379
Florida asks Supreme Court if it's OK to ban content moderation it doesn't like
Nothing screams Land of the Free like the government ordering you to host awful but lawful content
Personal Tech23 Sep 2022 | 99
USA adds two more Chinese carriers to 'probably a national security threat' list
Pacific Network Corp and China Unicom join the likes of Huawei, Hytera, Hikvision on list of dangerous suppliers
Security21 Sep 2022 | 5
Musk says Starlink will ask for exemption to US sanctions on Iran
Violence flares amid internet blackouts after woman dies in police custody
Networks20 Sep 2022 | 31
China to launch space tourism by 2025, says industry veteran
Asserts Beijing can achieve parity with US capabilities within a decade, thanks to burgeoning private sector
Science20 Sep 2022 | 8
US bans some foreign investments in chips, AI, quantum computing
Not aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China
Systems16 Sep 2022 | 9
China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns
Wants swarms of small satellites that are harder to destroy – and outsourcing to improve cybersecurity
Security16 Sep 2022 | 28
White House to tech world: Promise you'll write secure code – or Feds won't use it
Developers, why not simply build flawless software, thus solving all our vulnerability worries
Security14 Sep 2022 | 38
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race
USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim
AI + ML14 Sep 2022 | 39
NIST and uni friends to design open source research chips, Google to bankroll the fabs
At 130nm, we'll take it
Systems14 Sep 2022 | 5
US seeks standards dominance, lets Huawei access previously forbidden crypto tech
Beijing thinks standards should include central network controls. Washington does not
Security09 Sep 2022 | 18
As Cybersecurity Week begins, Beijing claims US attacked Uni doing military research
National Security Agency apparently has tools that crack Solaris boxes
Security07 Sep 2022 | 11
US semiconductor industry has a lot of ideas about where CHIPS Act money should go
Outsourced assembly and test a key missing part of supply chain, and foreign entities aren't beyond the pale
Systems02 Sep 2022 | 7
US bars Nvidia and AMD from selling AI-centric accelerators to China and Russia
Updated Makes Nv tense with ban on Tensor tech that could cost it $400m this quarter alone
Systems01 Sep 2022 | 6
Twitter whistleblower summoned to Senate Judiciary Committee
Updated Get the popcorn out for September 13
Legal25 Aug 2022 | 18
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