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Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern

Comment On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts

Public Sector20 Apr 2025 | 85

HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don’t expect much of a payout

When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously

Personal Tech19 Apr 2025 | 16

What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight

Oh. You expected serious suggestions?

Personal Tech19 Apr 2025 | 72

Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy

Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)...

AI + ML18 Apr 2025 | 19

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes

Public Sector18 Apr 2025 | 65

Break free from infrastructure limits: Nutanix and Dell for Agile, scalable IT

Join us here at 0900 PT, April 30, to find out more

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Comment MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF?

CSO18 Apr 2025 | 55

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices

Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

On-Prem18 Apr 2025 | 27

Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law

After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won

Personal Tech17 Apr 2025 | 4

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances

Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA

CSO17 Apr 2025 | 62

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit

AI + ML17 Apr 2025 | 25

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed

PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 39

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

'It's amazing how fast the change has been'

PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 117

TSMC prepping for tariff turmoil, denies joint venture talks with Intel

Chip contract manufacturer not immune to 'uncertainties and risks' caused by Trump's import taxes

Systems17 Apr 2025 |

Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators

Analysis Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it

CxO17 Apr 2025 | 31

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD

Security17 Apr 2025 | 148

Competition boffin launches class action against Google UK over search dominance

Alleges £5B in harm caused by Android deals, anticompetitive actions

Personal Tech17 Apr 2025 | 9

Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes

Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us

Networks17 Apr 2025 | 17

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog

Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim

CSO17 Apr 2025 | 52

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly

Bootnotes17 Apr 2025 | 113

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Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

Updated Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

That would put America on the same level as China for espionage

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

Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not

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

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

IT admins, get ready to grumble

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

'It's amazing how fast the change has been'

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices

Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Comment MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF?

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California sues President Tariff

World War Fee Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work

Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 47

White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo

World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President

Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 75

Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone

Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter?

CSO16 Apr 2025 | 20

First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales

World War Fee Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?

HPC16 Apr 2025 | 6

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions

OSes16 Apr 2025 | 51

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

Uncertainty is the new certainty

CSO16 Apr 2025 | 31

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

ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets

Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters

Systems16 Apr 2025 | 3

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield

Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns

Legal16 Apr 2025 | 50

Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector

£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC

Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 14

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?

Networks16 Apr 2025 | 22

How automation can drive out downtime

Nokia Event-Driven Automation platform is on a mission to remove mistakes from datacenter operations

Sponsored feature

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

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

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

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 | 44

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 | 200

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

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

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

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

Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes

Exec pay outlined in Proxy Statement, and things did not go well for either workforce or calls for climate transparency reports

PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2025 | 6

Billions pour into AI as emissions rise, returns stay pitiful, say Stanford boffins

Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier

AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 13

AI revolution driving datacenter network investment surge

Why more companies are recognizing the need to make infrastructure fit for purpose in the brave new world of AI

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The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too

Personal Tech11 Apr 2025 | 40

Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam

Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 73

Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan

Security11 Apr 2025 | 26

Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it?

Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance

Networks10 Apr 2025 | 43

AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason

Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice

OSes10 Apr 2025 | 38

Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack

World War Fee Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs

CSO10 Apr 2025 | 31

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting

Systems10 Apr 2025 | 80

Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records

Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside

Public Sector10 Apr 2025 | 33

ISC 2025: Hitting the Big 4-0

Join the HPC, AI and QC communities in June to explore the future of performance-centric computing

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Fear of tariffs made the PC market great again in Q1 as vendors emptied factories to dodge price future hikes

World War Fee Expected sales surge sparked by Windows 10 support ending could yet be trumped, analysts suggest

Personal Tech10 Apr 2025 | 9

Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2

Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs

Updated Alleges cybersecurity agency was ‘weaponized’ to suppress debunked theories

Public Sector10 Apr 2025 | 113

Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager

Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights

CxO10 Apr 2025 | 3

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Updated Best after-dinner mint ever

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 56

Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board

From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 6

Wyden blocks Trump's CISA boss nominee, blames cyber agency for 'actively hiding info' about telecom insecurity

It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again?

Networks09 Apr 2025 | 8

Someone compromised US bank watchdog to access sensitive financial files

OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago

Cyber-crime09 Apr 2025 | 5

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

World War Fee One's a world power with extensive cutting-edge electronics manufacturing empire, the other is America

Personal Tech09 Apr 2025 | 205

EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted

World War Fee Middle Kingdom gets 145%. So this is what it's like living in reality TV

On-Prem09 Apr 2025 | 154

Commercial space station outfit plans two Orbital Data Center nodes by the end of 2025

Yep. It's Axiom's datacenters in SPAAAAACE

Systems09 Apr 2025 | 13

Microsoft puts $1B US datacenter builds on hold amid AI, tariff uncertainty

World War Fee Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed?

Systems09 Apr 2025 | 9

Tech hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, economic uncertainty, more collide

And coming up next, Trump's World War Fee

On-Prem09 Apr 2025 | 7

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 66

TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – that may cost it $1B+

What did we learn today, hm?

On-Prem08 Apr 2025 | 28

Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor

Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another slip of paper entirely

Science08 Apr 2025 | 31

Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney

Comment 70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot

Storage08 Apr 2025 | 230

Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock

World War Fee Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great

Personal Tech08 Apr 2025 | 15

UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec – usable in just 18 short months

No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network

Networks08 Apr 2025 |

Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette

Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal

AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 43

IBM's z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance

Who wouldn't want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can't solve for Trump tariffs)

Systems08 Apr 2025 | 10

UK data watchdog seeks fresh blood as more complaints lie unanswered for up to a year

Multiple red-rated performance metrics blamed on inability to answer rising numbers of data protection worries

Personal Tech08 Apr 2025 | 14

Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying

Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe's anti-fraud org isn't probing

Networks08 Apr 2025 | 5

Samsung trumps USA's tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed

World War Fee May also have fixed AI memory biz if better-than-expected revenue guidance is anything to go by

Personal Tech08 Apr 2025 | 48

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