Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts
Comment Elon Musk's Trump-blessed DOGE unit has made a lot of noise and a lot of headlines for its <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/whistleblower_nlrb_doge/">heavy-handed hatchet tactics</a> within supposedly bloated governmental organizations.…
HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don’t expect much of a payout When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously
HP Inc has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in the US that alleged it used deceptive pricing tactics on its website, including fake discounts and misleading limited-time offers.…
What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight Oh. You expected serious suggestions?
It isn't just devices unable to upgrade to Windows 11 that are headed to digital landfill this year. The first version of Microsoft's Surface Hub is also destined for the tech trashcan as Windows 10 support ends. So, what do you do with a big black wall ornament?…
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to <code>int main(enter the void)</code>...
In a fitting bit of irony, users of Cursor AI experienced the limitations of AI firsthand when the programming tool's own AI support bot hallucinated a policy limitation that doesn't actually exist.…
Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes
A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash, creating security risks and giving the oligarch's artificial intelligence lab an inside track to train its models on government info.…
IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge
Exclusive IBM, which employees wryly or ruefully say stands for I've Been Moved, is once again moving its employees.…
Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won
For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge has found that some parts of Google broke US antitrust law.…
Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA
Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked the security clearances of everybody at the company.…
Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit
Nvidia's troubles with the US government have just begun: The day after the Trump administration's export restrictions on its AI chips triggered a $5.5 billion charge, US elected officials are now demanding answers about how advanced silicon ended up in China. Meanwhile, CEO Jensen Huang has flown to China to try and smooth things over with the regime there.…
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed
When moving to the cloud, companies with significant investments in Microsoft infrastructure wares simply can't afford to rewrite everything for Linux, so they end up migrating to Azure to dodge the markups Redmond charges for running its server software in competitors' clouds.…
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers 'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
Are customers on the European side of the pond considering a move from US hyperscalers in the wake of recent events? Some of the region's vendors are reporting an uptick in inquiries as organizations mull their options.…
TSMC prepping for tariff turmoil, denies joint venture talks with Intel Chip contract manufacturer not immune to 'uncertainties and risks' caused by Trump's import taxes
TSMC's top brass insist it is not entertaining a joint venture with beleaguered chip biz Intel, though it is steeling itself for potential effects from the Trump administration's ever-changing tariff schemes.…
Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it
Analysis The idea of datacenters feeding power back into the electricity grid during peak demand may sound promising, but operators say it's unlikely to catch on beyond a few trials in Ireland because of the cost and technical complexity involved.…
Competition boffin launches class action against Google UK over search dominance Alleges £5B in harm caused by Android deals, anticompetitive actions
A British academic has launched a class-action suit against Google, alleging abuse of its market dominance in online search caused £5 billion ($6.6 billion) of damage to advertisers.…
Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim
Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation after a tech staffer at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) blew the whistle on the cost-trimming DOGE's activities at the employment watchdog – which the staffer claims included being granted superuser status in contravention of standard operating procedures, exfiltrating data, and seemingly leaking credentials to someone with a Russian IP address.…
Logical Biological appoints Stephane Argivier as new CEO Logical Biological, a leader in the provision of high-quality biological specimens, announces the appointment of Stephane Argivier as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective from 1st September 2024.
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