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It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date Fuel pumps refuse payment, smartwatches stop – all part of the rich tapestry of computer calendars

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Alibaba Cloud cuts prices – hard – for multi-year commitments in mainland China

This might solve its twin problems of low growth and short-term customers

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Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

Workers allege discrimination, missing payments

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Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications

Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more

White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers

Choose your own FISA Section 702 adventure: End-run around lawmakers or business as usual?

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Electronic Arts frags hundreds of workers 'to grow fandom'

Dating app Bumble also finds breaking up is easy to do for a third of its crew

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Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel's Xeon

Chipzilla resurrects Altera brand as former datacenter chief takes the helm

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Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier

Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry

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Atos hires three board directors to stop ship from sinking

One of them, One Point CEO David Layani, tried to buy rudderless integrator

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Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs

Too late to prevent Q1 from being 7th straight decline for US titan

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GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks

Cloned then compromised, bad repos are forked faster than they can be removed

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Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

No Chinese automakers sell cars in the US, but the feds are still going to investigate whether they're a threat

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Ransomware gangs are paying attention to infostealers, so why aren't you?

Analysts warn of big leap in cred-harvesting malware activity last year

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Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit

GDPR claim alleges Facebook parent's 'commercial surveillance practices are fundamentally illegal'

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Chinese PC-maker Acemagic customized its own machines to get infected with malware

Tried to speed boot times, maybe by messing with 'Windows source code', ended up building a viral on-ramp

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Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure

And accuses a former Australian politician of having 'sold out their country'

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The Who’s Who of AI just chipped in to fund humanoid robot startup Figure

$675 million to accelerate development of machine that can lift, but can’t keep up with humans

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KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion

The big new version of the other desktop, complete with improved HDR and a spinning desktop cube

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It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

Fuel pumps refuse payment, smartwatches stop – all part of the rich tapestry of computer calendars

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Snowflake share price falls after revenue forecasts dip below expectations

CEO Frank Slootman announces retirement as former data cloud rising star sees value sink

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Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

Global 'Resource Actions' to hit Europe hard, with Enterprise Ops & Support, CIO, HR and Real Estate in firing line

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Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0

Following in the same direction as the good ship KDE Plasma

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Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns

Doctors voiced concern over lack of Red-Amber-Green rating system, says report

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Nutanix doesn't expect a rush of VMware refugees – maybe for years

Beats guidance as renewals grow and waits for Broadcom and Cisco to bring more bucks

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Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again

Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing

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Toyota admits its engines are overrated – by its own power testing software

Japan's government slapped it for using the wrong code to produce too-powerful results

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Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech

Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers

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Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air

Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up

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It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

Off-Prem

Alibaba Cloud cuts prices – hard – for multi-year commitments in mainland China

Step up your game for hybrid work security.

Is Your Organization A Target?

On-Prem

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications

White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers

Electronic Arts frags hundreds of workers 'to grow fandom'

Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel's Xeon

Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier

Atos hires three board directors to stop ship from sinking

Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs

How to protect Industrial processes in OT-IT convergence and safeguard productivity

Forrester Reprint: Google Workspace Delivers UCaaS And More

Security

GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

Ransomware gangs are paying attention to infostealers, so why aren't you?

Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit

Chinese PC-maker Acemagic customized its own machines to get infected with malware

Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure

Discover what’s possible with the right tools.

Software

The Who’s Who of AI just chipped in to fund humanoid robot startup Figure

KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion

It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

Snowflake share price falls after revenue forecasts dip below expectations

Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0

Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns

Nutanix doesn't expect a rush of VMware refugees – maybe for years

Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again

Toyota admits its engines are overrated – by its own power testing software

Offbeat

Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech

Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air

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