Malaysia Closes A Back Door That May Have Allowed US-sourced AI Chips To Reach China
Stricter regulation follows last week's tariff whack The government of Malaysia on Monday closed a back door that may h... Read more
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI And XAI Get $800M To Hop In Bed With Pentagon
Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800 million on th... Read more
Nvidia CEO Says China Wouldn't Risk Building Military Supers With American AI Chips
With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns... Read more
XAI's Grok Lurches Into Right-wing Insanity, Offers Tips On Assaulting Man
MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out Opinion So, on the 4th of July, a big deal to those on my side of the pond, Elon... Read more
GPS On The Fritz? Britain And France Plot A Backup Plan
Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats Britain... Read more
Googles Gemini Refuses To Play Chess Against The Mighty Atari 2600 After Realizing It Can't Match Ancient Console
Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns Google’s Gemini chatbot... Read more
Iran Seeks At Least Three Cloud Providers To Power Its Government
Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing The Information Technol... Read more
Google Indonesia Tangled Up In $600 Million Chromebook Corruption Probe
PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more Asia In Brie... Read more
Hegseth Signs Flying Memo To Expand Military Use Of Cheap Drones In Oddball Video
An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration video Flanked by a pair of buzzing drones t... Read more
ICANN Fumes As AFRINIC Offers No Explanation For Annulled Election
As allegations fly regarding fraudulent powers of attorney, one member wants to wind up AFRINIC and start again The rec... Read more
Pentagon Snaps Up Ownership Stake In America's Only Rare Earths Mine
Rare earth metals are vital to electronics, and most of them are mined in China There is only one active rare earth min... Read more
Datacenters Feeling The Heat As Climate Risk Boils Over
A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants Many of the world's top 100 datacenter hubs are at ris... Read more
Telefónica Germany Offloads VMware Support To Spinnaker Due To High Renewal Costs
'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected' The German arm of telecoms biz Telefónica has shifted... Read more
Security Company Hired A Used Car Salesman To Build A Website, And It Didn't End Well
First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career On... Read more
Chinese Censorship-busters Claim Tencent Is Trying To Kill Its WeChat Archive
Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved Anti-censorship organizati... Read more