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Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good [Wed Feb 1 2023]

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Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good

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Landlord favorite Twitter sued for allegedly not paying rent on Market Square HQ

Genius move: You can't lose money if you don't pay your bills

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Any iPad is foldable if you try hard enough but Apple guru says a hinged one is coming

Cupertino commentators split over foldable fondleslab predictions

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A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report

Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew?

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NetApp ditches 8% of staff as customers put away wallets

210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022

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White House pushes for total ban on US exports to Huawei

Beijing watching developments closely as death knell rings for company's foreign supply chain

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Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever

Discounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates, conflict in Ukraine

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BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere

Bet is to use UAV to plug not-spots in mobile coverage with 150Mbps across 15,000 square km

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Samsung profits and sales slump, hopes for a jump start from cars

Record income for foundry business offers sole bright spot

UK spy agency violated Snooper's Charter with 'unlawful' data retention

Turns out even MI5 has to comply with retention rules

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US Department of Energy solicits AMD's help with nuke sims

Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too

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Phone the rich: Premium handsets sole survivors of slump in India, China

Market shifts from volume-driven to value-driven

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Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good

Ballmer thought this kernel was cancer, Nadella may disagree

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Amid FTX's burning wreckage, Japan outpost promises asset withdrawals in February

Well what do you know – plenty of hard-nosed regulation by central authorities actually protected investors

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South Korea makes crypto crackdown a national justice priority

It's listed alongside issues like tackling gang violence, drugs, and sex crimes

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OpenAI offers error-prone AI detector amid fears of a machine-stuffed future

ChatGPT: Please explain the difference between 'token efforts' and 'putting the genie back in the bottle'

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Cali puts mobile app makers on notice over privacy

Let customers opt-out, or start adding zeros to compliance fines

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Oracle cozies up to IBM, adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux

So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers

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helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD

Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners

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Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI urge judge to bin Copilot code rip-off case

We're not the bad guys in this, Azure empire says with a straight face

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McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs

Welsh city of Wrexham has a reputation to uphold

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Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'

X2 eVTOL doesn't have wheels but paves the way for sedan-like X3

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NASA Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission ends after last data recorder fails

Also, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there

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