Tag: united states of america

Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent

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Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

The Iran war has been great for business

Chinese State Media cartoon with China and Iran flags added by Nanobanana

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war

And China is loving it

US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally

Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies

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IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz

Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases

White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record

'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration'

Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis

From a gun into the front door of a councilor who supports plan

AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring

You actually think companies are going to pay Americans to take customer service calls in the AI age?

Illustration of a military drone firing a missile

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes

Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury

New York skyline at dusk with Empire State Building lit up

AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days

Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030

Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds

Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack

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China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan

Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China’s scientists are sprinting ahead

Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes

Official monitoring shows connectivity collapsing to near-zero

China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy

Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination

The fix inches closer: Iowa moves farm right-to-repair bill forward

Manufacturers like John Deere have resisted broader access to proprietary repair software

ICE watchers say agents used software to threaten and follow them home

'This is a warning. We know you live right here'

Offbeat

Bald eagle in front of an American flag. God Bless America.

O say, can you see: FCC pushes patriotic programming for US 250th

Stations urged to mark milestone with pro-America content

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US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians

Rush is on to push forward sympathetic candidates from both parties ahead of midterms

Photos of U.S. President Donald Trump and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping appear on a smartphone screen

US appears open to reversing some China tech bans

PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And more

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere

Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier

StopICE hacked to send alarming text messages, admins accuse border patrol agent of sabotage

The ICE-tracking service says it doesn't store usernames or addresses

Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US government amid criticism of ICE contract

'The nature and scope of this work has raised questions' says CEO, who swears he couldn't spot it sooner

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you

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Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation

GAO urges NWS to firm up its AI language plans as policy shifts slow multilingual warnings

Law enforcement agents in Minneapolis after ICE agent shot Renee Good

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

But CEOs remain frozen in place

SaaS

Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations

Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo

Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client

Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects

Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack

Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that

Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing

Gold phone more like fool's gold as none show up six months later

Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue

America first, for sales and access to foundries

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services

US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips

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The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware

How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech

Remember when government agents didn't wear masks?

Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer

With no hardware for sale and no local service agreement, SpaceX’s move looks more like politics than philanthropy

US punishes China’s ‘dominance’ of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs

President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027

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PaaS + IaaS

Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech

Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty

Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause

Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boom

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and Germany

AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam

Aims to wash away Washington's vast tech woes with a dose of cloud magic

FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess

Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’

PaaS + IaaS

Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants

Getting by with a meager $2 billion quarterly capex – vastly less than rivals, but still cashing in on AI

China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer

A new theory from the agency that brought us ‘America hacked itself to blame Beijing’

US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies

Disclosure? We've heard of it

Russian broker pleads guilty to profiting from Yanluowang ransomware attacks

Aleksei Volkov faces years in prison, may have been working with other crews

Cybercrooks team up with organized crime to steal pricey cargo

Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age

White House says China to lift rare earth export bans, stop probes into US tech companies

PLUS: Google's massive AI giveaway in India; Raid on Australian software company; Alleged scam camp owner's assets seized; and more!

Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can't sell Blackwell in China

US President did discuss chip exports with his counterpart, but made no breakthroughs

India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub

TypeScript was ranked top programming language

Marketing giant Dentsu warns staff after Merkle data raid

Emails confirm payroll and bank details lifted in cyberattack on US subsidiary

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession

Datacenter infrastructure and model development spending offset high borrowing costs

Have I Been Pwned logs 17.6M victims in Prosper breach

P2P lending platform says it could not verify the claims at present

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TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab

CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor

Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls

Xi to the left of me, Trump is to the right; Huang I am, stuck in the middle with GPUs

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

Judge rules there’s no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out

Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping

American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform

Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app

Secretive app + unreliable tech + Trump administration policies = ANGRY LETTER

Former FinWise employee may have accessed nearly 700K customer records

Bank says incident went undetected for over a year before discovery in June

Cyber-scam camp operators shift operations to vulnerable countries as sanctions strike

PLUS: Japan woos Micron, again; China launches chip dumping probe; Mitsubishi expands opsec empire; and more!

Illustration of a cloud with documents falling from it and a warning symbol shown

PACER buckles under MFA rollout as courts warn of support delays

Busy lawyers on hold for five hours as staff handhold users into deploying the security measure

Congressional panel throws cyber threat intel-sharing, funding a lifeline

Clock is ticking

Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019

Intel Ocotillo campus in Chandler, Arizona

Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs

The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says

Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline

Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates

Donald Trump looking pleased with himself

Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse

10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape

US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B

The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program

Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in

The NVLink switch has traditionally been integrated into Nvidia's SXM carrier boards, like the Blackwell HGX board.

To heck with export controls! Nvidia reportedly plotting cut-down B300 for Chinese market

It's that or a replacement for its aging H200 NVL PCIe cards

Softbank bets $2 billion on Intel having a future

Takes two percent stake as rumours swirl Uncle Sam could do something similar

Pot calls kettle black as China dubs US 'surveillance empire' over chip tracking

Spy vs spy in the chips

Someone's poking the bear with infostealers targeting Russian crypto developers

If you wanted to hurt Putin’s ransomware racketeers, these info-stealing npm packages are one way to do it

Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama

Moscow-linked miscreants accused of swiping sealed US court files and fiddling with a Norwegian dam’s floodgates

Water fountain at rear of the Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Photo by shutterstock

Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office blamed on 'cyber incident'

Website, emails, and phones are down for a second day

The White House could end UK's decade-long fight to bust encryption

Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players

US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs

The alleged perpetrators remain at large

Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales

Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU

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Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them

Fears adversaries will use them in the belief they can take plenty of punishment

Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links

Chipzilla boss accused of huge conflict of interest

Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors

Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs

Cloud Infrastructure Month

Only ISPs get to determine what constitutes 'affordable' broadband, says team Trump

A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding

Tony Blair Institute: UK needs bit barns to lead in AI deployment, not training

Let US and China compete in the AI development arms race, says former Brit PM's non-profit org

CSO

China says US spies exploited Microsoft Exchange zero-day to steal military info

Spy vs. spy

US lowers tariffs on major tech exporting nations - but buyers will still pay more

Malaysia's attitude of 'This could be worse and our neighbors are copping it too' is a typical response

The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i

The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions

Columnists

I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen

In 2025, social media has moved from self-expression to self-entrapment

China proves that open models are more effective than all the GPUs in the world

OpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead

Republican calls out Trump admin's decision to resume GPU sales to China

Moolenaar demands answers from Commerce Secretary

Caught between China and Trump, Apple spends $500M on rare earth recycling

MP Materials aims to deliver US-made, recycled magnets by 2027

Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China

Stricter regulation follows last week's tariff whack

Workers painting the NASA meatball on the side of the Vehicle Assembly Building

Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed

It could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the month

US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader

Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam

Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1

Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan

Gone in 40 days: US drops ban on export of chip design tools to China

'Quad' nations launch plan to stop China making critical minerals into Unobtanium

Container ship docked at port with crystal blue waters.

Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs

DRAM spot prices doubled last week

China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12

Second attack on McLaren Health Care in a year affects 743k people

China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar

Huawei founder says USA overestimates its semiconductor prowess

China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help

Trump tariffs ruled illegal within minutes of Musk announcing end of government role

Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'

Even a humble keyboard is now political in Taiwan

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at Computext 2025

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’

Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play

AI Infrastructure Month

US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree

An Airbus A320-series airliner cockpit. Pic: Shutterstock

Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign

US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

Siri? Will tariffs hurt Apple? Tim Cook says brace for a $900M whack, for starters

Samsung customers buying now to avoid future tariffs – and may slow purchases once they arrive

Spotlight on RSAC

China now America's number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed

From 112K to 4M folks' data – HR biz attack goes from bad to mega bad

Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

HPC

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

South Korea to build mini-fabs as part of $25B plan to prop up tariff-targeted industries

Illustration merging the USA and EU flags

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

South Korea reports tech exports surged ahead of Trump tariffs

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

China ups tariffs on US goods to 125%, calls Trump's war a 'joke'

PIRG's 'Electronic Waste Graveyard' lists 100+ gadgets dumped after support vanished

CSO

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

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

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Asian tech players react to US tariffs with delays, doubts, deal-making

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

A reflection shot turns the US Capitol building upside down

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

India-US econonmic relations concept art

India ditches its 'Google Tax', perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs

Is Washington losing its grip on crypto, or is it a calculated pivot to digital dominance?

Applications

Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point

Research

Trump, photo by uplift the world via Shutterstock

US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens

Ransomware in Focus

Up to $75M needed to fix up rural hospital cybersecurity as ransomware gangs keep scratching at the door

As Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU, Beijing throws its weight behind ISA

Bootnotes

100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Ransomware in Focus

US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware

Reclassification is making US tech job losses look worse than they are

US news org still struggling to print papers a week after 'cybersecurity event'

Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov

Robocallers who phoned the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble

Not even Nvidia's Jensen Huang can talk President Tariffs out of chip import taxes

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

Illustration of Earth burning as a match

Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price

Self-generated image by Qwen 2.5 Max (If you could generate an image representing yourself, what would it be?)

DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba?

Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it

China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies

Two TikTok users recording themselves for a video on a smartphone

The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish

Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters

What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This...

Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now

FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco

Offbeat

Jimmy Carter set the solar, space, and environmental pace

Trump administration wants to go on cyber offensive against China

Deloitte says cyberattack on Rhode Island benefits portal carries 'major security threat'

TikTok appeals to have Trump – or Supreme Court – decide its fate later

Ransomware hangover, Putin grudge blamed for vodka maker's bankruptcy

Beijing wants Chinese outfits to seek alternatives to US silicon

Storage

Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators

Fine print in Intel's CHIPS Act deal includes requirement to keep control of its foundries

Intel locks down $7.86B in funding from US CHIPS Act

China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos

Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season

America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem

First looks at China's Moon rock samples suggest Luna had volcanoes for longer than previously thought

Keyboard robbers steal 171K customers' data from AnnieMac mortgage house

Air National Guardsman gets 15 years after splashing classified docs on Discord

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'Cybersecurity issue' at Food Lion parent blamed for US grocery mayhem

Officials warn of Russia's tech-for-troops deal with North Korea amid Ukraine conflict

Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after 'unauthorized activity'

Columbus, Ohio, confirms 500K people affected by Rhysida ransomware attack

Uncle Sam lays out plans for $825M EUV R&D site in New York

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Chinese chips, quantum and AI now on US investment blacklist

Intel to expand Chengdu facility, despite US China tension

Ex-Intel board members make an ill-conceived case for spinning off Foundry

Data flowing into a funnel and money coming out

US moves ahead with crackdown on data brokers selling to six 'countries of concern'

Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar

China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it

An aerial view of Taiwan semiconductors Mega Factory under construction in North Phoenix, Arizona.

TSMC and Amkor link up to bring advanced packaging stateside

Uncle Sam lends $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025

RansomHub genius tries to put the squeeze on Delaware Libraries

US proposes ban on Chinese, Russian connected car tech over security fears

Dockworkers tying up container ship to dock with stacked containers in the background at the Port of Los Angele

Biden tackles trade loophole used by cheap Chinese e-tailers

Feds pull plug on domains linked to import of Chinese gun conversion devices

Thanks, Edward Snowden: You propelled China to quantum networking leadership

US spends CHIPS Act cash to explore Indian chipmaking collabs

Feds urge 3D printing industry to end DIY machine guns

MI6, CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven enemies

'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump

China is beating the world at scientific research, think tank finds

US indicts duo over alleged Swatting spree that targeted elected officials

China AI devs use cloud services to game US chip sanctions

Shein, Temu escalate epic e-commerce squabble

China's chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations

Iran named as source of Trump campaign phish, leaks

New Zealand minister OKs Kim Dotcom extradition to US

Trump campaign cites Iran election phish claim as evidence leaked docs were stolen

Pro-Iran groups lay groundwork for 'chaos and violence' as US election meddling attempts intensify

Research

What looks like Marjorie Taylor Greene on stage in Georgia, USA

Georgia's voter portal gets a crash course in client versus backend input validation

Illinois relaxes biometric privacy law so snafus won't cost businesses billions