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Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips Chinese companies may be unable to import the best US GPUs, but they have found a workaround: renting access to that hardware via cloud services. Now, the US House of Representatives is …
Jan 13, 2026, 5:43 PM
Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters
Tobias Mann, Theregister.com
No wonder he's going nuclear Meta has formed a new initiative called “Meta Compute” to oversee the planning, deployment, and operations of its growing fleet of AI datacenters.…
Jan 12, 2026, 10:21 PM
How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech
Jessica Lyons, Theregister.com
Remember when government agents didn't wear masks? While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for its multi-billion-dollar surveillance tech budget.…<!--#include …
Jan 9, 2026, 9:03 PM
China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
Simon Sharwood, Theregister.com
Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card Chinese authorities have signalled they’ll likely probe Meta’s planned acquisition of made-in-China AI platform Manus.…
Jan 9, 2026, 3:48 AM
Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release
Jessica Lyons, Theregister.com
Netflix documentary part 2 in the works? Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges tied to the 2016 theft of about 120,000 bitcoins from the Bitfinex exchange and was sentenced to five years in prison, has been released after roughly 1…
Jan 2, 2026, 8:22 PM
Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China
Tobias Mann, Theregister.com
Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing Now that it can legally export them, Nvidia has reportedly informed its Chinese customers that it'll begin shipping H200s, one of its most potent graphics accelerators for AI training and inference, in time for…
Dec 22, 2025, 5:49 PM
Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt
Richard Speed, Theregister.com
Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against China NASA has a new administrator. Billionaire and space tourist Jared Isaacman was confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of 67 to 30.…
Dec 18, 2025, 1:19 PM
Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer
Joe Fay, Theregister.com
But when will Chipzilla bring back will.i.am? Intel has hired a veteran Republican operator as its head of government affairs, just months after Uncle Sam became the struggling chip vendor's biggest shareholder.…
Dec 16, 2025, 1:11 PM
US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
Washington rediscovers that modern IT doesn’t run itself After dissolving several federal tech modernization units and shedding large numbers of technologists, the Trump administration has launched a new talent recruitment initiative, suggesting it still need…
Dec 15, 2025, 9:39 PM
US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it’s a worry Alongside TikTok and Instagram, teens have added ChatGPT to the mix. Pew says about two-thirds of US teenagers have tried an AI chatbot, with nearly…
Dec 10, 2025, 9:19 PM
Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
A win for the contractors Congress has released the final version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and critics have been quick to point out that previously proposed rules giving the US military the right to repair its equipment without h…
Dec 9, 2025, 8:19 PM
Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts
Dan Robinson, Theregister.com
Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say More than 230 organizations across America have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the construction of datacenters, claiming the current building boom represents a huge environmental and soc…
Dec 9, 2025, 5:00 PM
Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US
Paul Kunert, Theregister.com
As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost US Three US-based businessmen face potential prison sentences after authorities dismantled a smuggling network accused of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPUs to Chin…
Dec 9, 2025, 3:28 PM
NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage
Richard Speed, Theregister.com
Billionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertainty Jared Isaacman has cleared another hurdle on his way to becoming the next NASA Administrator after the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportatio…
Dec 9, 2025, 2:08 PM
Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut
Simon Sharwood, Theregister.com
Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits US President Donald Trump has signalled he will allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H200 accelerators to China.…
Dec 9, 2025, 2:17 AM
ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
Suit argues forcing Apple to remove app, and threatening dev with legal action is a First Amendment violation Does the first amendment allow citizens to track law enforcement activity? After publishing an iOS app that shows where ICE agents have deployed, ICE…
Dec 8, 2025, 9:07 PM
Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth definitely broke the rules when he sent sensitive information to a Signal chat group, say Pentagon auditors, but he's no…
Dec 4, 2025, 9:09 PM
EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform
Richard Speed, Theregister.com
OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilo…
Dec 4, 2025, 5:08 PM
MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers
Thomas Claburn, Theregister.com
Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and t…
Dec 3, 2025, 9:37 PM
Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam
Dan Robinson, Theregister.com
Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASML The US Department of Commerce has signed a preliminary letter of intent to provide up to $150 million to xLight, a Palo Alto-based startup led by former Intel chief…
Dec 3, 2025, 10:42 AM
UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants
Lindsay Clark, Theregister.com
Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain The UK government collected just £800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent …
Nov 28, 2025, 10:00 AM
AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam
Simon Sharwood, Theregister.com
Aims to wash away Washington's vast tech woes with a dose of cloud magic Amazon Web Services on Monday announced a plan to build 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity in new datacenters dedicated to serving the US government, at a cost of up to $50 billion.…
Nov 25, 2025, 2:02 AM
Pentagon pumps $29.9M into bid to turn waste into critical minerals
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
It's unclear how much scandium and gallium ElementUSA will contribute to the supply chain, or when The US Department of Defense is asserting its desire to be an integral part of the American rare earths and critical minerals supply chain with a deal to establ…
Nov 21, 2025, 5:47 PM
Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI
Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com
If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard. The plan faces opposition from ma…
Nov 20, 2025, 6:02 PM
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