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US House of Reps tells staff: No Microsoft Copilot for you!

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Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs

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TSMC boss says one-trillion transistor GPU is possible by early 2030s

Timing predictions aside, multi-chip designs with 3D stacking will be the path forward

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Enthusiastic young tech decided to simplify the mainframe, with unexpected results

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Nearly 3M people hit in Harvard Pilgrim healthcare data theft

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Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

This time, we got lucky. It mostly affected bleeding-edge distros. But that's not a defense strategy

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Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI 'Stargate' supercomputer

Play it again, Sam

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OpenAI claims its software can clone your voice from 15 seconds of you talking

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Microsoft consolidates Power BI licenses in line with Fabric platform

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