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Salesforce complexity can be 'difficult and expensive to govern', especially for multicloud, warns Gartner

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California Right-to-Repair bill quietly killed in committee

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US Supreme Court puts Texas social media law on hold

Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett help halt enforcement of HB 20

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Intel’s Falcon Shores XPU to mix ‘n’ match CPUs, GPUs within processor package

x86 giant now has an HPC roadmap, which includes successor to Ponte Vecchio

IBM ordered to pay $1.6 billion to BMC Software

Big Blue's 'routine eschewal of rules' justifies large penalty, judge says

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Qualcomm among queue of suitors chasing a stake in Arm

Chipmaker interested in forming a consortium for purchase – and so is SK hynix, Intel

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BT to sell private 5G networks powered by Ericsson kit

If you fancy your own dedicated network there's another player in town – but don't ask how much it costs

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Capita to see wave of UK government contracts come to an end by 2025

Technology firms rank second in UK list of strategic public-sector suppliers

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Logitech's MX Mechanical keyboard, Master 3S mouse

All the the rage with gamers, mechanical type comes to office users – where cool goes to die

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Samsung and Intel bosses discuss silicon cooperation

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France levels up local video game slang with list of French terms to replace foreign words

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Fraudster and two alleged accomplices nabbed in joint op

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Microsoft's identity services huddle under Entra umbrella

Decentralized identity and knowing who needs what

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CIOs largely believe their software supply chain is vulnerable

Internal beauracy and barriers hold up roll out of defenses, report finds

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Intel offers GPU management tool ahead of Ponte Vecchio debut

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Distrobox 1.3.0: Run (pretty much) any Linux distro under almost any other

Latest version of simplified container tool for penguins is out

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VMware customers have watched Broadcom's acquisitions and don't like what they see

It's not hard to find unpleasant precedents for what might happen to Virtzilla

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China’s top court calls for blockchain to record vast number of transactions

Leases, IP rights, ownership of goods … it’s almost easier to list things the Supreme People’s Court doesn’t want on a blockchain

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Retail investors should not invest in crypto, says Singapore deputy PM

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