Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
Cecilia Kang, Tripp Mickle, Ryan Mac, David Yaffe-Bellany and Theodore Schleifer / nytimes - David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
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Multiple London councils' IT systems disrupted by cyberattack
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and the Westminster City Council (WCC) announced that they are experiencing service disruptions following a cybersecurity issue. [...]
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Singapore Orders Apple, Google To Prevent Government Spoofing on Messaging Platforms
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Singapore's police have ordered Apple and Google to prevent the spoofing of government agencies on their messaging platforms, the home affairs ministry said on Tuesday. The order under the nation's Online Criminal Harm…
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Trump's Genesis Mission Promises Manhattan Project Ambition. The Funding Says Otherwise.
Robert Brown / implicator - Trump's Genesis Mission invokes Manhattan Project urgency to accelerate AI-driven science. But the executive order commits zero new dollars, claims credit for existing partnerships, and arrives while university research funding gets slashed.
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AWS is spending $50B build AI infrastructure for the US government
Rebecca Szkutak / techcrunch - AWS has been working with the U.S. government since 2011 and is now building AI infrastructure specifically for the entity.
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DOGE Is Officially Dead
Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - The project no longer exists, despite eight months left on its mandate.
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Malaysia may ban users under 16 from social media starting next year
Ram Iyer / techcrunch - The country's communications minister Fahmi Fadzil said the administration is considering systems for implementing age restrictions on social media sites.
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Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China
Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Four arrested and charged with illegal exports, smuggling, and money laundering.
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Feds charge four with illegally smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China
Jay Peters / theverge - Federal prosecutors have charged four people with illegally smuggling Nvidia GPUs and HP supercomputers with Nvidia GPUs from the US to China, according to a court filing spotted by Court Watch. The US government has placed restrictions that prevent Nvidi…
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Report: Trump could sign executive order to preempt state AI laws
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - U.S. President Donald Trump could reportedly sign an executive order that would limit states’ ability to regulate artificial intelligence. Trump may sign the order as soon as Friday, sources told Politico today. In recent months, California and Oregon hav…
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Trump’s AI Preemption Order Sparks MAGA Revolt and $42.5 Billion Funding Threat
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - President Trump has escalated the fight over AI regulation, threatening to withhold $42.5 billion in funding to block state laws despite GOP opposition.The post Trump’s AI Preemption Order Sparks MAGA Revolt and $42.5 Billion Funding Threat appeared first…
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Trump's AI Preemption Push Collides With Constitutional Reality
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Trump's draft executive order seeks to override state AI laws through litigation and funding threats, reviving a proposal Congress rejected 99-1 months ago. Republican governors and conservative senators oppose the move as tech investors push harder.
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EU Unveils Plans to Delay AI Rules and Relax GDPR to Boost Tech Sector
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - The European Commission has unveiled a "Digital Omnibus" proposal that has delayed high-risk AI Act deadlines and has relaxed GDPR consent rules to boost industrial competitiveness.The post EU Unveils Plans to Delay AI Rules and Relax GDPR to Boost Tech S…
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Netherlands Hands Back Control of Chipmaker Nexperia
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / nytimes - Uncertainty over the availability of the Chinese-owned company’s chips, which are used in cars and electronics, had added to concerns of a global shortage.
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US Backs Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart With $1 Billion Loan To Constellation
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday. Previousl…
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Future data centers are driving up forecasts for energy demand. States want proof they'll get built
techxplore - The forecasts are eye-popping: utilities saying they'll need two or three times more electricity within a few years to power massive new data centers that are feeding a fast-growing AI economy.
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Five plead guilty to helping North Koreans pretend to be US-based IT workers
engadget - The US Department of Justice has announced that five people have pleaded guilty to helping North Koreans defraud US companies by pretending to be US-based remote workers. North Korea has previously used fake identities and the direct manipulation of US cy…
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Anthropic warns of AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China
go - Researchers at an artificial intelligence firm say they've found the first reported case of foreign hackers using AI to automate portions of cyberattacks
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Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude AI to Automate Cyber Espionage Campaign
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic reports that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude AI to autonomously execute a large-scale cyber espionage campaign, marking a new era of AI-driven threats.The post Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude AI to Automate Cyber Espionag…
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The U.S. Mint just pressed its final penny
Anna-Louise Jackson / fastcompany - A penny for your thoughts? Well, maybe try a nickel. Though it will remain legal tender, the last-ever one-cent coin was printed Wednesday—and not without some drama.After being in circulation for 232 years, the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia hosted a ceremoni…
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