Brandon Vigliarolo

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US Government Technology Reporter at The Register

US gov’t technology reporter at The Register. Hobby gardener, MMO junkie, formerly verified, 🖖 - Tweets mine. Mastodon: @[email protected], Bsky (at)bvig

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Articles

Congress asks Jensen to justify DeepSeek's Nvidia chips

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

Nvidia's troubles with the US government have just begun: The day after the Trump administration's export restrictions on its AI chips triggered a $5.5 billion charge, US elected officials are now demanding answers about how advanced silicon ended up in China. Meanwhile, CEO Jensen Huang has flown to China to try and smooth things over with the regime there.
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

World War Fee No, it wasn't a typo. Some Chinese imports are indeed subject to a 245 percent tariff in the United States. Last week, as widely reported, the Trump administration hiked fees on various Chinese goods coming into America to 145 percent. Tuesday this week, the White House shared a fact sheet to clarify some items have a total tariff of 245 percent. Officials have informed The Register there is no fat-fingered error on their part: For some types of goods, 245 percent is the figure.
March, April Windows 11 updates cause BSOD pain for users

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes. The software in question, April cumulative update KB5055523 and March preview update KB5053656, are causing the freeze-ups on devices running Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft said, and appear after either update is installed and the system is rebooted.
Figma files for IPO in wake of abandoned Adobe acquisition

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

It's been a little over a year since Adobe abandoned its plans to purchase web-based design tool Figma. Now, the smaller of the two app makers is bucking market uncertainty by filing for an IPO. Figma announced Tuesday it had filed a confidential S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, giving it the option to go public pending an SEC review.
China's REE restrictions will affect US military readiness

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

World war fee Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of thine actions. The Trump administration's global trade war is threatening to hit US military readiness. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) this week flagged national security risks tied to rare earth element (REE) export restrictions China implemented earlier this month as part of its response to Trump's soaring tariffs on the nation.
US Commerce Dept investigates security risk of chip imports

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

World War Fee Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors. The move is a likely precursor to sticking steep tariffs on imported chips: The Trump administration has been applying similar levies to foreign goods ostensibly to, among other things, encourage more manufacturing on American soil. Public notice of the investigation will be published in Wednesday's edition of the Federal Register.
DOGE, once cut off from Treasury systems, is back inside

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk's Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing one staff member to access sensitive US Treasury payment systems. This access includes personally identifiable financial information tied to millions of Americans.
OneDrive clients for Windows, Mac still broken 10 months on

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

In June 2024, users of the OneDrive sync client for macOS and Windows began reporting that shared folders had vanished from their local drives, replaced with web shortcuts. Ten months on, with no real fix and only vague noises from Microsoft, it looks as though Redmond may have forgotten about the matter.
Ireland demands look at Grok to check for GDPR violations

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

Elon Musk's social media outfit X is again under the regulatory microscope in Europe – this time for allegedly using EU users' public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot, possibly without the transparency or legal basis required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced Friday that it had kicked off an inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC) - the newly renamed Irish entity responsible for Elon Musk's social media platform.
Old Fortinet flaws under attack through new method

1 week ago | theregister.com | Brandon Vigliarolo

Infosec In Brief Fortinet last week admitted that attackers have found new ways to exploit three flaws it thought it had fixed last year. The cybersecurity firm published a notice last Thursday detailing how unknown threat actors achieved persistent access to FortiGate and FortiOS appliances using a trio of known vulnerabilities - including two that were used by the Chinese backed Void Typhoon group.