UK to ban public sector ransom payments after cyber attacks
Starve ransomware gangs of easy cash
The UK government plans to stop public sector bodies and critical infrastructure operators from paying off ransomware crooks, even if it means enduring painful outages.
OpenAI's UK arm swimming in cash after ChatGPT boom
Profits soar while government rolls out the red carpet
OpenAI’s Blighty outfit has gone from pocket change to piles of cash in barely a year.
Microsoft Sharepoint flaw triggers global cyber attack spree
Hackers breach government agencies, universities and energy firms while waiting for a fix
A CrowdStrike senior vice-president of cybersecurity has warned that anyone running a hosted SharePoint server is staring down the barrel of a major security nightmare.
"MechaHitler" rewarded with $200 million Pentagon deal
What could possibly go wrong?
A week after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and went on an antisemitic rant, his AI outfit xAI has been rewarded with a US government contract worth up to $200 million.
Intel’s woes are a national security problem
US will lose its competitive edge
According to the Wall Street Journal, Chipzilla’s woes pose a significant risk to shareholder wealth and US national security.
Facebook ignores government manipulation
Whistleblower spills the beans
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections and political affairs around the world, according to an explosive memo sent by a recently fired Facebook employee and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
TSCM to build 5nm Fab in Arizona
Conditio sine qua non
After weeks of speculation, TSMC has officially confirmed that Taiwan based TSMC announced its intention to build and operate an advanced semiconductor fab in Arizona, United States.
UK calls the cops after Huawei leak
It is the Wright thing to do
Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright said he could not rule out a criminal investigation over the “unacceptable” disclosure of confidential discussions on the role of China’s Huawei Technologies in 5G network supply chains.
European governments using mobile metadata to deport immigrants
Would chuck away that phone if I were you
European leaders appeasing the rise of anti-immigration parties are using metadata on smartphones to start sending migrants back.
US government makes it harder to sue companies over poor IT security
So much for cleaning out the swamp
Rather than sorting out the corrupt relationship between the US government and big corporations, it appears that the Senate wants to make it hard for consumers to sue financial companies who could not be bothered installing good IT security.