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Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency

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BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it

Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team

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Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming

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Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost

Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text

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Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs

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HPE picks up OpsRamp to sprinkle some AIOps on Greenlake multi-cloud

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OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes

ALSO: Discord quietly edited its privacy policy after rolling out new generative AI features, and more

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UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog

NHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation

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Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO

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AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution

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Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science

A 'new deal for the night' needed

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Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note

Can't get Google to finish the job, though

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