AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair Software16 Apr 2025 | 36
Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails It's LLMs all the way down AI + ML16 Apr 2025 | 32
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in Cyber-crime16 Apr 2025 | 20
South Korea to build mini-fabs as part of $25B plan to prop up tariff-targeted industries Fancy a doctorate in semiconductor design? The land of K-Pop wants you to help future-proof its industry Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 2
Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 27
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago Systems16 Apr 2025 | 53
Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program Updated Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? CSO16 Apr 2025 | 179
Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops World war fee Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically Public Sector15 Apr 2025 | 146
Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz 800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain Cyber-crime15 Apr 2025 | 16
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm? AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 21
4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked Cyber-crime15 Apr 2025 | 33
Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips World War Fee There's a new tariff in town On-Prem15 Apr 2025 | 48
China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act Cyber-crime15 Apr 2025 | 6
All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez Public Sector15 Apr 2025 | 18
Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months of support left in the tank Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right? Software15 Apr 2025 | 9
Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger Databases15 Apr 2025 |
Why wait to build a datacenter when you can just unpack one? Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches On-Prem15 Apr 2025 | 4
Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again) Research15 Apr 2025 | 3
US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door Science15 Apr 2025 | 63
ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK? Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century's tech Software15 Apr 2025 | 13
Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks Car hire biz takes your privacy seriously, though Cyber-crime15 Apr 2025 | 6
Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive You can't keep a good OS down Software15 Apr 2025 | 31
Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger's industry £121M UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical HPC15 Apr 2025 | 20
Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft See no error, hear no error, speak no error OSes15 Apr 2025 | 47
EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits That would put America on the same level as China for espionage Security15 Apr 2025 | 128
Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption When the power went out, they didn’t switch on Off-Prem15 Apr 2025 | 28
South Korea reports tech exports surged ahead of Trump tariffs Meanwhile in China, factories that work for Apple and HP are reportedly closing some production lines Public Sector15 Apr 2025 |
Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029 Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 11
Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not Patches14 Apr 2025 | 33
Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months Updated Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy OSes14 Apr 2025 | 68
New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029 IT admins, get ready to grumble CSO14 Apr 2025 | 124
Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago Systems14 Apr 2025 | 13
Cyber congressman demands answers before CISA gets cut down to size What's the goal here, Homeland Insecurity or something? Security14 Apr 2025 | 14
Resellers may be sitting on costly pile of regret after US smartphone shopping spree Q1 sector growth unlikely to survive current trade policy Personal Tech14 Apr 2025 | 18
Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal! Systems14 Apr 2025 | 2
Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 33
White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades Houston, we have a funding problem Science14 Apr 2025 | 25
Windows 11 stops freaking out over wallpaper customization Safeguard hold finally lifted as Microsoft realizes animated backgrounds aren't the end of the world OSes14 Apr 2025 | 13
Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze World War Fee Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank CxO14 Apr 2025 | 121
It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter Opinion Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 81
The LittleGP-30: A tiny recreation of a very big deal from the 1950s Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend Offbeat14 Apr 2025 | 19
Dot com era crash on the cards for AI datacenter spending? It's a 'risk' Interview Analysts say the bubble won't burst, but it is possible, admits world's largest colo provider On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 23
Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying Opinion UK holds onto oversight by a whisker, but it's utterly barefaced on the other side of the pond Security14 Apr 2025 | 209
CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 15
Static electricity can be shockingly funny, but the joke's over when a rack goes dark Who, Me? If this techie had been older and slower, this never would have happened On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 115
VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game Virtualization14 Apr 2025 | 42
Old Fortinet flaws under attack with new method its patch didn't prevent Infosec In Brief PLUS: Chinese robodogs include backdoor; OpenAI helps spammer; A Dutch data disaster; And more! Security14 Apr 2025 | 6
China reportedly admitted directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure Asia In Brief PLUS: India's new electronics subsidies; Philippines unplugs a mobile carrier; Alibaba Cloud expands Security14 Apr 2025 | 6
Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back World War Fee Beijing tries to find an off-ramp but also fights back with export bans Public Sector14 Apr 2025 | 155
Hacktivism resurges – but don't be fooled, it's often state-backed goons in masks Feature Military units, government nerds appear to join the fray, with physical infra in sights CSO13 Apr 2025 | 7
Pidgin is back, so let's talk about why a local chat client matters Multi-protocol chat client is approaching version 3 Software13 Apr 2025 | 41
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
Global datacenter electricity use to double by 2030, say policy wonks. Yup, it's AI Analysis No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting' AI Software Development Week12 Apr 2025 | 94
Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again A thing of beauty for map fans and those with kids Offbeat12 Apr 2025 | 20
Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time OSes11 Apr 2025 | 126
Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts $5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47
China ups tariffs on US goods to 125%, calls Trump's war a 'joke' World War Fee Middle Kingdom retaliates against White House's 'instrument and weapon to bully and coerce' Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 94
PIRG's 'Electronic Waste Graveyard' lists 100+ gadgets dumped after support vanished Consumer campaign group says 'we need lifetime transparency for tech Personal Tech11 Apr 2025 | 46
IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency Activist investor finds payments groups lobbying against climate action Software11 Apr 2025 | 8