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Web giant milks advertisers with data harvested from digital assistant

 

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Meet Moeco, Ukrainian-led biz using IoT trackers to follow supplies into invaded land

From COVID-19 chaos to Russia's war, startup CEO opens up

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Apple's self-repair service finally launches after months of silence

The company kept quiet on progress since it announced plan in November

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India: It would be fab if Intel and TSMC built new plants here

Govt offers lure of subsidies in bid to become electronics manufacturing powerhouse

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Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter – and things went better than expected

Two years of disaster planning massively reduced recovery time objective, company says

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BCS: Ukraine's IT industry is open for business

Images of bombed streets belie the fact that consultancies are still operating and need income

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Huawei re-orgs to formalize business PC sales

Consumer kit now sits under business dedicated to 'terminals' and alongside B2B org

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Microsoft points at Linux and shouts: Look, look! Privilege-escalation flaws here, too!

Will Redmond start code-naming Windows make-me-admin bugs?

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Feds offer big rewards for info on suspected Russian Sandworm intel officers

A different type of bug bounty

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China turns cyber-espionage eyes to Russia as Ukraine invasion grinds on

State-sponsored Bronze President group launches cyber-espionage malware campaign against notional ally

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Chinese drone-maker DJI suspends ops in Russia, Ukraine

First Middle Kingdom company to take a stance says it doesn't want anyone weaponizing its flying machines

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Study: How Amazon uses Echo smart speaker conversations to target ads

Web giant milks advertisers with data harvested from digital assistant

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Google releases beta version of Android 13 'Tiramisu'

Chocolate Factory's latest mobile code confection refines permissions and error reporting

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There are nearly half a billion active users of Start news feed, says Microsoft

Personalized news feed has its fans, according to exec

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HPE uses blockchain for distributed machine learning models

Peer-to-peer network between different nodes ensures parameters can be exchanged securely

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UK competition watchdog probes school software contract revisions

Former Capita-owned ESS' minimum 3-year deals put under spotlight by CMA

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Fedora starts to simplify Linux graphics handling

Changes will make things less challenging for developers, but maybe not for users

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DARPA backs virtual worlds for autonomous off-road vehicles

Intel and co outline Holodeck-like efforts for combat bots

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Algorithm can predict pancreatic cancer from CT scans well before diagnosis

Software picks up subtle clues human doctors miss

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Microsoft partners balk at new licensing scheme, dent growth

Software giant calls out impact of slow transition to New Commerce Experience amid strong results

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Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon

Cameras, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are operational – maybe China’s wider tech independence plan is, too

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VMware says server sprawl is back, and SmartNICs are the solution

More details emerge about 'Project Monterey' and its role driving infrastructure workloads into hybrid clouds

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US Navy told to do a 'supplemental' integrity investigation of $2.5b Dell deal

Email about pricing from rival seller of Microsoft licensing and software under spotlight

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