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Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over

Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers?

Taiwan quake to hit chipmakers' capex, not chip supply

Some equipment suffered minor damage, but the silicon show must go on

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Huawei's Iran sanctions evasion trial pushed to 2026

Meng Wanzhou is home, but the case is far from over

Liquid cooling specialist snags Microsoft datacenter wizard as advisor

Iceotope will need the help as it navigates the frosty waters of global expansion

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AMD to open source Micro Engine Scheduler firmware for Radeon GPUs

And it was all thanks to peer pressure

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Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more

Self-driving to the nearest job center

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Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers

Even when tech crew gets the tweaks approved, vendor lead times are bonkers, says report

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Techie saved the day and was then criticized for the fix

You can prove them wrong, but they'll still get you on a non-technicality

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Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs

Today's lesson covers the potential for Loongson's made-in-China architecture to hurt Microsoft and Intel

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US government excoriates Microsoft for 'avoidable errors' but keeps paying for its products

In what other sphere does a bad supplier not feel pain for its foulups?

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Hotel check-in terminal bug spews out access codes for guest rooms

Attacks could be completed in seconds, compromising customer safety

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Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and confused

Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus

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World's second-largest eyeglass lens-maker blinded by infosec incident

Japan's Hoya also makes components for chips, displays, and hard disks, and has spent four days groping for a fix

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Google sues app devs, claims they're Play Store crypto scammers with 100k+ victims

The pair allegedly made 87 apps since 2019 and defrauded folks of tens of thousands of dollars

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Microsoft warns that China is using AI to stir the pot ahead of US election

Beware random inflammatory questions on social media – they may come from a threat actor

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VMware customer reaction to Broadcom may set the future of software licensing

Enterprise tech slingers want to see what Hock Tan can get away with – and replicate it

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Microsoft hiring Inflection team triggers interest from EU's antitrust chief

All sorts of levers being pulled to lure AI developers from here, there, everywhere

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Tough luck, bosses, AI is coming for your job, too

Algorithms as PHBs – who wouldn't want that?

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Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves

Study finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation

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Blue Origin to fly another 90-year-old into outer space

Ed Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket

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404 Day celebrates the internet's most infamous no-show

Nothing is forever, not even a web page

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