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FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

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Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement

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AMD on the edge: Stripped down Siena Epycs teased

Hopes cool-running Zen cores can socket to Intel's Xeon-D – maybe with a smaller socket

Reports of the PC's death are greatly exaggerated, says IDC

Demand may be 'tepid at best' but analyst sees return to pre-2019 levels next year

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America's financial cops say Impact Theory's NFTs were unregistered securities

Dissenting opinion asserts position is wrong and that many headaches linger

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Meta reckons China's troll farms could learn proper OpSec from Russia's fake news crews

Claims to have taken down two colossal networks, with 'Secondary Infektion' schooling 'Spamouflage'

University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu

Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines!

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Apple security boss faces iPads-for-gun-permits bribery charge... again

'We will continue fighting this case' global chief's lawyer tells us

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FBI-led Operation Duck Hunt shoots down Qakbot

Totally plucked: Agents remotely roast Windows botnet malware on victims' machines

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More UK cops' names and photos exposed in supplier breach

All 47,000 Met Police officers and staff reportedly accessed in break-in

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Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc

And adds rivals Claude 2, Falcon, Llama 2 to Vertex AI

Perhaps AI is going to take away coding jobs – of those who trust this tech too much

Llama 2 avoids errors by staying quiet, GPT-4 gives long, if useless, samples

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Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next

TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic

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FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too

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NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal

Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement

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OpenAI pops an enterprise sticker on ChatGPT to give big biz some peace of mind

Here's what you actually get for this VIP level. And how is Microsoft happy with this?

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Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else?

It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them

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US Air Force wants $6B to build 2,000 AI-powered drones

Pilots' Goose cooked as uncrewed vehicles prove cheaper and perhaps more versatile

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NASA to outdo most Americans on internet speeds, gigabit kit heading to the ISS

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Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster

Asks Beijing to stop the phone calls harassing civilians, as tests show impact of nuke plant water

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US and China to keep talking about chip bans, just not when they'll end

Intel and Micron made the agenda, but action to ease their woes did not

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Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss

Mega-corp has mastered the complexity of numerous technologies but it took several scandals to impart this obvious lesson

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