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Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off [Mon May 6 2024]

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Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off

When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

 

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Microsoft doesn't want cops using Azure AI for facial recognition

Facial recognition based on body cam footage? Absolutely not ... in our cloud, says Microsoft

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AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service

Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing

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Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21%

Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022

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Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off

When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

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What do we make of Apple's plan B for a down quarter – that $110B buyback of shares?

Plus: What our vultures thought of the US v Google trial that's wrapping up

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Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion

Decline shown in data from StatCounter attributed to 'anomaly'

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BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks

Visual Small BASIC, Chloe System, and QB64 Phoenix all updated

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China 'the most competitive market in the world' for the iPhone says Tim Cook

Put another way, iPhone sales were down 8%

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Irish government hands Intel millions to offset energy price hikes

Euro facility reportedly qualified under Ukraine Enterprise Crisis Scheme

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I can fix this PC, boss, but I’ll need to play games for hours to do it

Loyal Wingman has fond memories of memory register exceptions

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Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International

A 'murky' web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users

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Apple sales slip, but investors offered bite of $110B stock buyback

Mac sales rose, iPads predicted to soar, and AI is riding to the rescue

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Chinese government website security is often worryingly bad, say Chinese researchers

Bad configurations, insecure versions of jQuery, and crummy cookies are some of myriad problems

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End-to-end encryption may be the bane of cops, but they can't close that Pandora's Box

Internet Society's Robin Wilton tells us the war on privacy won't be won by the plod

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Dating apps kiss'n'tell all sorts of sensitive personal info

Privacy Not Included label slapped on 22 of 25 top lonely-hearts corners

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Kaspersky hits back at claims its AI helped Russia develop military drone systems

Ready, set, sanctions?

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It may take decade to shore up software supply chain security, says infosec CEO

Sure, we're waking to the risk, but we gotta get outta bed, warns Endor Labs founder Varun Badhwar

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Europol op shutters 12 scam call centers and cuffs 21 suspected fraudsters

Cops prevented crims from bilking victims out of more than €10m - but couldn't stop crime against art

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Oracle's database family gets trendy AI makeover

Say goodbye to 23c and hello to 23ai

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RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan

Meanwhile, Alma Linux gets into supercomputers

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Apple confirms iPadOS will fall under its Alternative Business Terms in the EU

Cupertino drops the Core Technology Fee for hobbyist developers with no revenue

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Windows users left to fend for themselves after BitLocker patch bungle

Need a bigger partition for the update? You'll be manually resizing it then

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Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers

If you read about 'meticulous commendable intricacy' there's a chance a boffin had help

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Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agents

Rovo will write to-do lists, create graphics, become virtual colleagues to whom you offload scutwork

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UK inertia on LLMs and copyright is 'de facto endorsement'

Lords committee slams government response to complaints from creators

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Clock is ticking for NASA to fix bucket of issues before next Artemis mission

Heat shield that looks like the surface of the Moon plus fiberglass doors on the launch platform on the list

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Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon

Relax! It's for low-gravity exercise

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