Trump pardons Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht
Squashes life sentence
US President Donald Trump has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the operator of Silk Road, a notorious dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold.
OpenAI shares the Volish cloud as Stargate Project launches
Microsoft to share
OpenAI is widening its cloud structure to include OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, along with its old chum, Microsoft.
Sophos X-Ops spots two active cyber threat campaigns
Microsoft Office 365 and Remote Management tools targeted
Sophos X-Ops has uncovered two active cyber threat campaigns. In these campaigns, separate teams of cybercriminals exploit the Microsoft Office 365 platform and remote management tools like Quick Assist to breach companies' IT networks, steal data, and deploy ransomware.
Distributed Cloud Networking to reach $17 Billion by 2028
Dell’Oro Group report
According to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group, the distributed cloud networking market is poised for explosive growth, expanding from $4 billion in 2023 to a projected $17 billion by 2028.
Fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D scams rampant
You get this sort of thing when you are popular
As its popularity has risen, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has become the focal point of a new counterfeit chip scam.
Musk, Global Foundries and Qualcomm team rumoured to buy Intel
Today, Intel; tomorrow the world
Elon [look at me] Musk, Global Foundries, and Qualcomm are in Florida, where they will are rumoured to be plotting to buy Intel.
IntelBroker takes out HPE
Flogged data online
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is investigating a cyber attack from the notorious threat actor IntelBroker, who announced it had data stolen from HPE.
Apple pulls botched AI news product
Half baked
Red-faced cargo cult Apple has pulled its AI news product after it was universally declared as accurate as a Russian government announcement about the Ukrainian war.
Trump reprieves TikTok
Gives it time to be flogged to his mates
President Donald Trump swooped in with a last-minute save to the social notworking app TikTok to allow users to see his glorious inauguration ceremony.
Amazon’s forced return to office a fiasco
No desks, packed parking lots, and furious workers
Amazon has landed itself in hot water again "after forcing workers to return to the office five days a week" to ensure they are engaged in tedious and pointless meetings with middle management teamwork meetings.