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Date set for for epic Amazon-FTC antitrust showdown

Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far

ASML sees semiconductor upturn ahead, but China export restrictions are a risk

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Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

Who could possibly have predicted this backlash?

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Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules

Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions

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Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a €47,500 workstation

Of course it's bristling with Noctuas – how else do you cool a 1kW desktop?

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China's Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of 'large' US city

Jeez, not now, Xi. Can't you see we've got an election and Ukraine and Gaza and cost of living and layoffs and ...

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US Air Force's new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks

Officer pay, limited command duties and writing 'code for your country'

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Prudential Financial finds cybercrims lurking inside its IT systems

Some company admin and customers data exposed, but bad guys were there for 'only' a day

Romanian hospital ransomware crisis attributed to third-party breach

Emergency impacting more than 100 facilities appears to be caused by incident at software provider

Southern Water cyberattack expected to hit hundreds of thousands of customers

Brit utility also curiously disappears from Black Basta leak site

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Bumblebee malware wakes from hibernation, forgets what year it is, attacks with macros

Trying to break in with malicious Word documents? How very 2015 of you

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Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam

$1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds

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Crims found and exploited these two Microsoft bugs before Redmond fixed 'em

SAP, Adobe, Intel, AMD also issue fixes as well as Google for Android

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Quilter's AI design service nabs $10M to make circuit board design easier

Claims what took weeks to do by hand, machine learning can do in hours

OpenAI shuts down China, Russia, Iran, N Korea accounts caught doing naughty things

You don't need us to craft phishing emails or write malware, super-lab sniffs

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AI won't take our jobs and it might even save the middle class

MIT economist argues AI can moderate the inequalities of the Information Age

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Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!

New Start Menu is a 'game changer' claims relentlessly cheerful vid

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Waymo services driverless car software after Phoenix truck collision

Alphabet owned autonomous vehicle biz files voluntary recall report saying it tweaked wares via over-the-air update

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Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap

DSL 2024 is not as svelte as it used to be – but who is?

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It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down

Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger

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Airbnb sees AI as its ticket to become a sprawling Big Tech giant

Reckons OpenAI and Google are mere infrastructure players who don't understand apps or how AI will change them

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Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it

Scribes may have a point about unfair competition, direct copyright infringement

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Roses are red, violets are blue, Opera GX gives Valentine's a gray, rainy hue

HeartBlocker extension aimed at the 'forever alone' crowd

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NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission?

Ready for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court

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