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Judge Says US Treasury More Vulnerable To Hacking Since Trump Let The DOGE Out

Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men Trump administration policies that allowed Elon M... Read more

Does DOGE Have What It Takes To Actually Tackle Billions In US Govt IT Spending?

Tesla’s DIY ERP legend meets the messy reality of entrenched federal contracts Comment  Tesla reportedly decided not... Read more

France, UAE To Drop €50B On AI Mega-datacenter. Still Nowhere Near Americas $500B Bet

Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France this week announced plans for a one-giga... Read more

Amazon, Google Asked To Explain Why They Were Serving Ads On Sites Hosting CSAM

And US government adverts at that, say senators Updated  US Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D... Read more

Trump's Dept Of Transport Hits Brakes On Bidens EV Charger Build-out

Funding freeze while Feds review priorities If you were hoping the Biden administration's $5 billion investment in buil... Read more

Datacenter Energy Use To More Than Double By 2030 Thanks To AI's Insatiable Thirst

Shocking research warns electricity shortages could create construction bottleneck AI's thirst for electricity will see... Read more

Musk's Move Fast And Break Things Mantra Won't Work In US.gov

248-year-old democracy is not a tech startup Opinion  120-hour work weeks, firing government staffers and dismantling ... Read more

I Was Told To Make Backups, Not Test Them. Why Does That Make You Look So Worried?

Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets On Cal... Read more

What Spotify's Profit Milestone Means For The Streaming Industry And Its Competitors

For the first time since its launch, Spotify has reported an annual profit, marking a significant milestone in the music... Read more

Google's 7-year Slog To Improve Chrome Extensions Still Hasn't Satisfied Developers

Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept Google's overhaul of Chrome's extension architect... Read more

Apple Missed Screenshot-snooping Malware In Code That Made It Into The App Store, Kaspersky Claims

OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries Kaspersky eggheads say they’ve spotted the first... Read more

DOGE Geek With Treasury Payment System Access Now Quits Amid Racist Tweet Claims

We did Nazi see that coming Updated  Marko Elez, a former SpaceX, Starlink, and X engineer who was granted deep access... Read more

Amazon-backed X-energy Bags $700M More For Itty-bitty Nuke Reactors That Don't Exist Yet

Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Months after Amazon joined a half-billion-dollar funding round ... Read more

Coordinates Of Millions Of Smartphones Feared Stolen, Sparking Yet Another Lawsuit Against Data Broker

Fourth time’s the harm? Gravy Analytics has been sued yet again for allegedly failing to safeguard its vast stores of... Read more