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Microsoft boss Nadella's compensation pack swells 10% to $55m

Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma, the median? Ratio to Redmond's average employee pay is 289 to 1

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For its big comeback, Intel needs to spend money – and it's making less and less of it

The party's over and the pain begins

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Meta fined record-breaking $24.6m for deliberately ignoring political ad law

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Russia says Starlink satellites could become military targets

Urges peace in space, while also threatening to shoot western war zone internet out of the sky

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TSMC wants to unleash a flood of chiplet designs with 3DFabric Alliance

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Microsoft's Windows 10 Patch Tuesday update crashes OneDrive

The software giant expects a fix, but not until at least next week

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Macs still growing as Apple sidesteps dark clouds over big tech

Ducks Zuck's bad luck as fanbois chuck bucks at M2 SoC... but CFO warns it's unlikely to last

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HPE supercomputer to tell Singapore that it's hot, humid, probably going to rain

Cray EX beast deployed to improve weather forecasting in country that has basically one season

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UK awards Fujitsu $60m contract amid calls to suspend it from government work

It may be in the dock over Horizon software scandal, but it's still on UK.gov gravy train

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If you think 5G is overhyped, wait till you meet 5.5G

Less than half of next gen networking users say it has improved speed or reliability for them

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No, I will not pay the bill. Why? Because we pay you to fix things, not break them

Just because the client touches a computer doesn’t make a mess their fault

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Party like it's 2014, if you can – that's the last time smartphone sales were this low

If not for Apple, this addition to this week's orgy of bad economic indicators would be even less pleasant

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Ubuntu continues expanding RISC-V support – now, the $17 Sipeed LicheeRV

As progress revealed on Android port to the open ISA

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Your new career plan: Go to jail for bribery, get busted taking drugs, be appointed chair of Samsung

It worked for Lee Jae-yong, who now gets to handle a nasty profit plunge

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Indian government creates body with power to order social media content takedowns

PLUS: China’s digital currency surges; Infosys tax portals wobble again; Singapore crypto protections; and more

This Windows worm evolved into slinging ransomware. Here's how to detect it

Raspberry Robin hits 1,000 orgs in just one month

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Federal bans aren't stopping US states from buying forbidden Chinese kit

Report claims thousands of orgs are still happily writing checks

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Privacy watchdog urges companies drop emotional analysis AI software

'They may not work yet, or indeed ever,' says ICO's deputy commissioner

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RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year

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Apple boosts bug bounties but may not fix some bugs in past operating systems

Where's your spirit of Ventura?

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Why I love my Chromebook: Reason 1, it's a Linux desktop

We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner

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NASA uses space station dust sensor to map 50 methane 'super-emitters' on Earth

Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags

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NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth

So crazy, it just might work

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Elon Musk jettisons Twitter leadership, says takeover was 'to try to help humanity'

Chief twit celebrates closing deal with characteristic humility

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BOFH: I know of a small biz that could deliver nothing for a fraction of the cost

Say! They're right here in the room! Fancy that!

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Origins of mysterious marsquake settled: It was a meteoroid what done it

We've spotted the massive ice-hole it left behind

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