Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg you not to ditch Edge [Fri Feb 24 2023]

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Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg you not to ditch Edge

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Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge

From free message therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers

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Phở no! Vietnam's last working submarine cable glitches out

Five from five take a dive, but connections are still alive

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Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff

And jobs shift offshore, says source

Starlink performance sees a bump, and so do prices

Still not quite as fast as it was in the halcyon days of 2021

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Dell pitches products to drag telcos into next-gen networks

You're going to have your cloud-native infrastructure and you're going to like it

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Petaflops help scientists understand why some COVID-19 variants are more contagious

'If we did one of these calculations in our lab, we are talking weeks or months'

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Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says

Of course the company that figured out chiplets says the answer is more chiplets

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Debian-based TrueNAS Scale updated – and iXsystems wins a gong

Similar look for FOSS folk, with same UI and OpenZFS storage back-end

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The Known (and Unknown) Risks of Ransomware

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Suspected Russian NLBrute malware boss extradited to US

Dariy Pankov accused of infiltrating systems, selling tool and passwords to other miscreants

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Dole production plants crippled by ransomware, stores run short

Yes, we have no bananas, and things aren't looking peachy on the salad front

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FTX fiasco founder SBF faces further fraud charges

Fake donors allegedly padded politicians' pockets, both Republican and Democrat

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Sensitive DoD emails exposed by unsecured Azure server

AWS, Google and Oracle may benefit as Microsoft blames the Pentagon and the Pentagon blames Microsoft

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Russian authorities claim Ukraine hackers are behind fake missile strike alerts

Ten cities panic after emergency systems start Putin out warnings of an impending attack

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Datacenters in China, Singapore cracked by crims who then targeted tenants

Infiltrators tried to create fake remote hands tasks, alter visitor lists

Lawyers join forces to fight common enemy: The SEC and its probes into cyber-victims

Did the financial watchdog just do the impossible and herd cats?

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Workday sued for discrimination over AI candidate screening tool

Software allegedly rejects applicants based on 'race, age, and/or disability'

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By order of Canonical: Official Ubuntu flavors must stop including Flatpak by default

You can add Snap's rival cross-distro packaging format back in yourself

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Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg you not to ditch Edge

Monopoly giant can't stand it when anyone else has a monopoly

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China cuts off two chatbots: A local effort that flopped, and ChatGPT

Meanwhile Baidu plans to add its Ernie generative AI to search in March

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Japanese balloon startup wants to 'democratize space' – with $180,000 ticket price

Aim is to bring entry fee down to tens of thousands of dollars, if you have that lying around

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The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch

What's the time? It's time to go to court to see if the iGiant crushed a rival's heart-watching apps

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China's Zhurong rover may be dead: NASA images show no sign of life

Or maybe it's just resting and pining for the fjords

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Ancient art of banning rideshare companies revived in India, this time on motorbikes

Two-wheelers outnumber cars three to one in India, so promised licences mean Uber and Ola aren't off-road forever

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