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CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don’t expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet 2025-01-13 at 22:37 By Tobias Mann Rent-a-GPU outfit’s latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s As the UK government reaffirms its aspirations to become an AI superpower, CoreWeave says two new GPU bit barns packed to the […]

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Making your workouts more ‘electric’ could increase muscles and build strength, says new study 2025-01-13 at 21:05 By Tracy Swartz “Exercise is medicine, but not everyone is able or willing to engage in traditional exercise,” said Sudip Bajpeyi, a kinesiology professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. This article is an excerpt from

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Microsoft sues ‘foreign-based’ criminals, seizes sites used to abuse AI 2025-01-13 at 21:05 By Jessica Lyons Crooks stole API keys, then started a hacking-as-a-service biz Microsoft has sued a group of unnamed cybercriminals who developed tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI tools. The tools were used to create harmful content, and access

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What is RedNote — the Chinese owned TikTok alternative that’s trending in the App Store as ban looms 2025-01-13 at 20:33 By Ariel Zilber RedNote, which is known in China as Xiaohongshu, the Mandarin term for “little red book,” is the most downloaded free app on the Apple App Store. This article is an excerpt

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Nvidia blasts Biden admin over ‘misguided’ AI chip restrictions, praises Trump 2025-01-13 at 20:04 By Thomas Barrabi Nvidia blasted the Biden administration for implementing “misguided” rules limiting shipments of AI computer chips – and praised incoming President-elect Donald Trump – in a rare public broadside on Monday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

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Azure and M365 MFA outage locks out users across regions 2025-01-13 at 20:04 By Iain Thomson It’s sorted out (mostly), but European users had a manic Monday Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Azure and Microsoft 365 (M365) was offline for four hours during Monday’s busy start for European subscribers.… This article is an excerpt from

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Zuckerberg asks Trump to intervene over EU fines on US tech firms 2025-01-13 at 19:04 By Thomas Barrabi President-elect Trump should push back on efforts in Europe and other countries to crack down on the US tech industry, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product

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NATO’s newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack 2025-01-13 at 19:04 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Sweden has changed,’ PM warns as trio of warships join defense efforts Sweden has committed to sending naval forces into the Baltic Sea following yet another suspected Russian attack on underwater cables in the region.… This article

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Top Meta official blasts CEO Mark Zuckerberg for ‘buckling to political pressure’ by scrapping censorship as advertisers express concern 2025-01-13 at 18:48 By Ariel Zilber Decision to end the platform’s fact-checking program is raising questions about brand safety on the $1.5 trillion tech giant’s platforms. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and

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Pastor’s divine ‘dream’ crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam 2025-01-13 at 17:48 By Richard Currie Plus: Man who tossed Bitcoin drive worth millions barred from digging in dump A man of God is in the sin bin with Uncle Sam’s prosecutors over a cryptocurrency investment business that he claims came to him in a dream.…

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Nvidia snaps back at Biden’s ‘innovation-killing’ AI chip export restrictions 2025-01-13 at 17:18 By Dan Robinson ‘New rule threatens to squander America’s hard-won technological advantage’ says GPU supremo Nvidia has hit back at the outgoing Biden administration’s AI chip tech export restrictions designed to tighten America’s stranglehold on supply chains and maintain market dominance.… This

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Hackers Exploit Aviatrix Controller Vulnerability to Deploy Backdoors and Crypto Miners 2025-01-13 at 17:03 By A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting the Aviatrix Controller cloud networking platform has come under active exploitation in the wild to deploy backdoors and cryptocurrency miners. Cloud security firm Wiz said it’s currently responding to “multiple incidents” involving the

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Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days 2025-01-13 at 16:03 By Jessica Lyons ‘Codefinger’ crims on the hunt for compromised keys A new ransomware crew dubbed Codefinger targets AWS S3 buckets and uses the cloud giant’s own server-side encryption with customer provided keys (SSE-C) to lock up victims’ data before

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Tesla recalls 239,382 vehicles over rearview camera problems 2025-01-13 at 15:49 By Richard Speed Software snafu can fry computer components for owners of Musk’s electric buggies Days after the US’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) began an investigation into the company’s Actually Smart Summon technology, Tesla is is now recalling almost a quarter of a

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UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation 2025-01-13 at 15:49 By Dan Robinson Government adopts all 50 venture capitalist recommendations but leaves datacenter energy puzzle unsolved Britain’s government is adopting all 50 recommendations made by a venture capitalist to use AI to drive economic recovery, without even acknowledging the resulting

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Blue Origin gives up on New Glenn lift-off, 2 hours into launch window 2025-01-13 at 14:18 By Richard Speed Vehicle subsystem concerns blamed for scrub Blue Origin has given up on today’s lift-off attempt for its New Glenn rocket, confirming that it was standing down a little more than two hours into the vehicle’s launch

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⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [13 January] 2025-01-13 at 14:18 By The cyber world’s been buzzing this week, and it’s all about staying ahead of the bad guys. From sneaky software bugs to advanced hacking tricks, the risks are real, but so are the ways to protect yourself. In this

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Ransomware on ESXi: The mechanization of virtualized attacks 2025-01-13 at 14:18 By In 2024, ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi servers reached alarming levels, with the average ransom demand skyrocketing to $5 million. With approximately 8,000 ESXi hosts exposed directly to the internet (according to Shodan), the operational and business impact of these attacks is profound.

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Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025 2025-01-13 at 13:18 By Rupert Goodwins Think you’re good at spotting trends? Try these on for size Opinion  This column may be out of date two days after publication. That’s when the US Supreme Court decides whether the Constitutional right to free speech overrides the laws

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China’s chokehold on critical minerals puts US in ‘unfathomable’ national security bind: experts 2025-01-13 at 13:05 By Thomas Barrabi China has a chokehold on the world’s supply of critical minerals – and experts are warning the situation is major risk to US national security if the government doesn’t step up its efforts to compete. This

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