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China bars Micron chips from critical infrastructure purchases

Citing serious security risks, the Chinese government has directed operators of critical information infrastructure to stop buying products from the U.S. chipmaker.

May 22, 2023 by Eileen Yu in Security

OpenAI, Microsoft, and Alphabet CEOs to discuss AI with Biden administration today

The announcement from the White House Briefing Room also included plans for a public evaluation of existing generative AI systems.

May 4, 2023 by Maria Diaz in Artificial Intelligence

Singapore, US run cross-border cybersecurity drills to test banks' resilience

The nations conduct a three-day exercise to test the ability of banks operating in the two markets to respond to cross-border cyber incidents.

May 2, 2023 by Eileen Yu in Security

Tesla wants to supercharge renewable energy storage worldwide with new China deal

The U.S. company is launching a new facility in Shanghai to produce 10,000 Megapacks a year, as a boost for renewables.

April 10, 2023 by Eileen Yu in Electric Vehicles

AWS unveils Modular Data Center for Pentagon's $9bn JWCC deal

AWS is offering its Modular Data Center to the Pentagon for rapid deployment of remote cloud services.

February 16, 2023 by Liam Tung in Amazon

Ransomware has hit 3,800 servers, but CISA says this tool might help

Organizations affected by the ESXiArgs ransomware for VMware ESXI servers can use an automated script for recovery.

February 9, 2023 by Liam Tung in Security

That big Microsoft 365, Teams, and Outlook outage? Here's what went wrong

Microsoft has given some detail on the causes of the recent cloud outage that affected customers using its services.

January 30, 2023 by Liam Tung in Productivity

DOJ takes down ransomware group with a '21st century cyber stakeout'

Authorities have disrupted the Hive ransomware group by infiltrating its computer networks and capturing its decryption keys, saving victims over $100 million in ransom payments.

January 26, 2023 by Stephanie Condon in Security

SpaceX is reducing Starlink's impact on astronomy - here's how

SpaceX commits to minimizing the interference its constellation of Starlink satellites causes to astronomers.

January 17, 2023 by Liam Tung in Space

NASA's budget was $24B in 2022. Here's how it spends the money

Is space exploration worth the money? We've had a look at the numbers so you can decide.

January 10, 2023 by Sherin Shibu in Government: US

Prosecutors charge six, seize 48 domains over DDoS-for-hire services

The Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against six people for allegedly renting out sites that were used to block targets' access to the internet.

December 15, 2022 by Liam Tung in Security

Lawmakers introduce a bill that could ban TikTok in the US

Privacy concerns motivate US lawmakers to create a bill that protects US data from being shared with foreign adversaries.

December 13, 2022 by Sabrina Ortiz in Government: US

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