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China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba

Starts chasing industrial digitization as its next big opportunity

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Remember the humanoid Tesla robot? It's ready for September reveal, says Musk

Find it next to the Cybertruck, Boring tunnel maps, Twitter acquisition and my sense of commitment

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Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing

That's the way the Cook he crumbles

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Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding

Can Pat stop the rot – or is the chip giant facing a Kodak moment?

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Amazon buys Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b

Bezos empire continues to clean up, but did it pick the proper postulates?

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Flash memory vendors unveil PCIe 5.0 SSDs, latest spec for CXL interconnect tech

Folk of flash meet in person as Compute Express Link 3.0 debuts

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Major IT outage forces UK emergency call handlers to use 'pen and paper'

Suspected cyberattack at Advanced takes down part of server estate that hosted range of apps

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Intel close to deal for semiconductor plant in Italy

Chip giant's efforts to building production capacity outside of Asia gains steam

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South Korea's lunar orbiter launches and phones home happily

Moon probe will play BTS to test space internet. Also for fun

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DuckDuckGo says Hell, Hell, No to those Microsoft trackers after web revolt

Plus: That Twitter privacy leak, scammers send Ubers for victims, critical flaw in Cisco gear, and more

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Hi, I'll be your ransomware negotiator today – but don't tell the crooks that

What it's like bargaining with criminals ... and advising clients suffering their worst day yet

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Nomad to crypto thieves: Please give us back 90%, keep 10% as a reward. Deal?

The Feds may see things differently

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Warning! Critical flaws found in US Emergency Alert System

DEF CON may be about to blow lid off security hole

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Critical flaws found in four Cisco SMB router ranges – for the second time this year

At least Switchzilla thinks they're salvageable, unlike the boxes it ordered binned back in June

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UK wants criminal migrants to scan their faces up to five times a day using a watch

Plus: Meta launches prototype AI chatbot, and cities reverse facial recognition bans

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FauxPilot: It's like GitHub Copilot but doesn't phone home to Microsoft

And if you train your own AI model for it, you can worry less about licensing

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Fancy a freshened up SLAX or ChromeOS replacement Peppermint OS?

Two lightweight distros get updated after extended pauses

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Be careful where you install software, and who installs it

I have bigger problems than where you put our code

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Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait'

Stanford academics peeved over LaMDA chatbot brouhaha

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Citrix adds Hypervisor Cloud to bring more and faster updates

Years after the company quit server virtualization, but may be handy for hybrid work

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India proposes increased power to vet tech mergers

Chinese phone makers' tax deals probed; PayPal back in Indonesia; Boeing seeks sustainability in Japan; and more

Russia: Hey, don't act surprised if we're still on the ISS in 2030

Yeah, they do have a habit of being in places where they are no longer welcome

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Scientist shares spicy pic of 'James Webb' discovery

Set hyperdrives for the Chorizos system ... oh actually it's baloney

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Virgin Galactic delays commercial suborbital flights again

Buys up land to train and entertain space tourists when they do start

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