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Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe

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Atlassian CEO's bonkers scheme to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore collapses

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Apple releases Lisa source code on landmark machine's 40th birthday

26 megabytes of history are yours for the downloading

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Ericsson's earnings slip as telcos rein in 5G spending

Oh, snap... next gen networks suddenly not a must-have in this economic climate

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Intel casts doubt on Italy for chip factory location

What is this... the Eurovision chip contest?

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New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

Pet consultant took down the datacenter in attempt to find other people's errors

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Netflix changes CEO-sharing arrangement, teases paid password-sharing

Reed Hastings steps down as joint boss to become board chair

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Ireland’s privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp €5.5 million

You’ve got 6 months to get into compliance, it tells yak-yak app

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Miscreants sure do love ransacking cloud networks, more so than before

Thanks for putting all your data in one basket

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Crims steal data on 40 million T-Mobile US customers

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Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe

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Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs

Please, sir. I don't want a 365 subscription

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Twitter tweaks third-party app rules to ban third-party apps

Setting fire to an ecosystem like it's a spliff on a credulous podcast

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Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file

Our lives are in your hands, and you have butterfingers?

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Capital One axes over 1,000 tech roles

Tis the extended season for layoffs

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Mentally scarred: Kenyan workers taught ChatGPT to recognize offensive text

Spare a thought for the workers who read the worst content scraped from the internet to keep you safe

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OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence

No principles or virtues, people accepting everything it says – this bot is perfect for political life

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What keeps this FBI director up at night? China’s AI work, for one

Hacking the world with ML is Uncle Sam's job, buddy

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It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

How did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement?

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If we have self-healing bio robots in 2053, it started here with mouse muscle cyborgs

Light-powered droids are coming, one fraction of a millimetre at a time

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Three billion objects, 10TB+ of data – yup, it's the largest-yet survey of our galaxy

And not even close to mapping it all

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Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer

But the next day it laid off 10,000 staff

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Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

Surely there are quicker and more effective ways to end your co-workers

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Happy Lunar New Year: Beijing warns of enhanced surveillance during celebrations

Censors are on the lookout for showering under a waterfall of money, overeating, and more conventional sins

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