Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago World War Fee  The Trump administration's latest salvo in the US-China trade war has forced Nvidia to take a $5.5 billion charge, the GPU goliath revealed in a Tuesday regulatory filing that sent its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.… #theregister #IT

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World War Fee: So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago

Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.… #theregister #IT

Homeland Security funding for CVE program expires

Updated: Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically World war fee  Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of thine actions. The Trump administration's global trade war is threatening to hit US military readiness.… #theregister #IT

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World war fee: Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically

Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz 800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed.… #theregister #IT

Landmark Admin now says info on 1.6M people stolen from it

: 800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm? Meta on Monday said it plans to start training its AI models using public posts and comments shared by adults in the EU, along with interactions users have with its chatbot.… #theregister #IT

Meta set to resume training AI models on EU user posts

: Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?

4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities,… #theregister #IT

4chan appears to have been compromised by rivals

: Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips There's a new tariff in town World War Fee  Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors.… #theregister #IT

US Commerce Dept investigates security risk of chip imports

World War Fee: There's a new tariff in town

Why wait to build a datacenter when you can just unpack one? Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches With rack space at a premium amid unrelenting demand for datacenter capacity, more modular solutions are hitting the market to speed deployment times, even for infrastructure prefabricated for AI training.… #theregister #IT

Rising demand for datacenter capacity sees prefabs sprout

: Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches

China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act China's state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US National Security Agency of targeting the 2025 Asian Winter Games.… #theregister #IT

China swipes at NSA for alleged Asian Winter Games hack

: Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act

Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months of support left in the tank Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right? Microsoft has warned administrators that less than half a year remains until support ends for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. However, the follow-up, Exchange Server SE, won't arrive for another few months.… #theregister #IT

Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months left

: Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right?