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China injects tens of billions of dollars in chipmaking tools, but it’s easily more than a decade behind the market leaders — Here’s why
China’s attempt to build a self-sufficient semiconductor industry has been instrumental in creating numerous companies, such as Huawei’s HiSilicon, SMIC, and YMTC, that develop and manufacture world-class chips. However, while there are China-based firms that produce chipmaking tools, they cannot replace equipment made by American or European companies for advanced process technologies. Some, like Goldman…
AI SOC 101: Key Capabilities Security Leaders Need to Know
Aug 13, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Threat Hunting Security operations have never been a 9-to-5 job. For SOC analysts, the day often starts and ends deep in a queue of alerts, chasing down what turns out to be false positives, or switching between half a dozen tools to piece together context. The work is…
From Backup to Cyber Resilience: Why IT Leaders Must Rethink Backup in the Age of Ransomware
With IT outages and disruptions escalating, IT teams are shifting their focus beyond simply backing up data to maintaining operations during an incident. One of the key drivers behind this shift is the growing threat of ransomware, which continues to evolve in both frequency and complexity. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platforms have made it possible for even…
How cybersecurity leaders can defend against the spur of AI-driven NHI
Machine identities pose a big security risk for enterprises, and that risk will be magnified dramatically as AI agents are deployed. According to a report by cybersecurity vendor CyberArk, machine identities — also known as non-human identities (NHI) — now outnumber humans by 82 to 1, and their number is expected to increase exponentially. By…
White House fires Copyright Office leaders as controversial AI report surfaces
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, less than a day after the office rushed out a sure-to-be-controversial report on artificial intelligence. The report found that AI companies training their models on copyrighted materials may not be protected by the fair use legal…
Trump Revenge Tour Targets Cyber Leaders, Elections – Krebs on Security
President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history. The White House memo, which also suspended clearances for other security professionals at Krebs’s employer SentinelOne, comes as…
Some UFOs may be hidden from our national leaders
An unassuming loophole might be giving the U.S. government and its private contractors free rein to withhold evidence of unidentified craft traveling well above our skies — in outer space. That’s the argument made by former Capitol Hill policy advisor and attorney Dillon Guthrie, published this January in the Harvard National Security Journal, a publication…