2026-07-14
Pentagon pauses the cyber audit rule that was pushing small suppliers out
The figure that seems to have finished the programme off is not a cost. It is a ratio: more than 100,000 companies in the American defence supply chain needing an independent cybersecurity audit, against roughly 100 accredited assessors licensed to carry one out. “So the math just simply doesn’t math,” Kirsten Davies, the Pentagon’s chief […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-07-14
Seoul court suspends the order making Coupang’s founder its controlling person
Coupang has won the first round of its fight with South Korea’s competition regulator. The Seoul High Court on Tuesday suspended the Fair Trade Commission’s decision to name founder Bom Kim as the e-commerce group’s controlling figure, freezing the disclosure obligations that came with it while the underlying lawsuit is heard. The court’s Administrative Division 7 granted […]<br /&g [...]
2026-07-14
China smartphone shipments fall for a fifth quarter as memory costs bite
For the fifth quarter running, fewer phones left Chinese warehouses than a year earlier. Shipments fell 4.3% to 66 million units in the second quarter, according to figures published on Tuesday by IDC, as manufacturers raised prices to cover the rising cost of memory and other components. First-half shipments were down 4.2% on the same […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-14
The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities
The White House is preparing an event, expected within weeks, at which electric utilities, the companies that build and run data centres for Big Tech, and governors of the states hosting the biggest buildouts will be asked to promise that none of this will end up on household electricity bills. Three people familiar with the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-14
Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones
The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was “a small number of roles”. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500. Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology group that owns Reuters News, is cutting engineering jobs globally as it pushes […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-14
Nvidia builds a white list: more than half of its Asian customers are off it
Nvidia has more than halved the number of customers in Asia cleared to buy its artificial intelligence chips, according to the Financial Times, which cited three people with knowledge of the matter. The company has built a new white list of approved regional buyers and stepped up due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan, the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]