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India misses ten million public WiFi hotspot goal, catchup not looking likely

Plus: Glowing reports for Fukushima wastewater; New datacenters in Fiji, Malaysia & South Korea; and more

UK government can't kick consultancy habit despite promises

Spending returns to pandemic levels as tech deals make up bulk of framework agreements

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Benchmarks show even an old Nvidia RTX 3090 is enough to serve LLMs to thousands

For 100 concurrent users, the card delivered 12.88 tokens per second—just slightly faster than average human reading speed

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Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor

A tale of retro tech – have you heard of Trivector computers? – and a very troubled tech support journey

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US sues Georgia Tech over alleged cybersecurity failings as a Pentagon contractor

Rap sheet spells out major no-nos after disgruntled staff blow whistle

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Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that actually matter

If you guessed TOPS and FLOPS, that's only half right

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Under pressure from Europe, Apple makes iOS browser options bit more reasonable

Cupertino quits screwing around with defaults – for those in the EU

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Feds, US states sue RealPage for building rent-hiking software for landlords

Algorithm just a fancy way to collude using private info, prosecutors say

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Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from

A glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of Chinese open source

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China AI devs use cloud services to game US chip sanctions

Orgs are accessing restricted tech, raising concerns about more potential loopholes

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CockroachDB scurries off to proprietary software land

As VC-owned fauxpen source biz yells 'show me the money,' more may follow to the peril of the community

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LibreOffice 24.8: Handy even if you're happy with Microsoft

Mature, stable – and can rescue corrupt files

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Devs at Asia's top messaging app drowned in Slack, tamed it with ChatGPT

LY Corp's QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts

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Google sets BigQuery apart with GenAI, Open Choices, and Cross-Cloud Querying

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Open Compute Project seeks standard for concrete, with help from AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft

There's a lot of CO₂ in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero

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Offbeat

NASA will fly Boeing Starliner crew home with SpaceX, Calamity Capsule deemed too risky

Eight days going on eight months for pilots stuck on orbiting space station

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LEGO's Concorde is the only supersonic jet you can build for the price of a fancy dinner

And still step on in the dark

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Ex-Microsoft engineer resurrects PDP-11 from junkyard parts

Because everyone has a box of mystery computer bits they simply can't part with

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To crew, or not to crew – that is the question facing Boeing's stricken Starliner

Decision time arrives for NASA bigwigs

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First of ESA's Cluster satellites prepares for fiery finale over South Pacific

Over 20 years into a 2-year mission, but all good things come to an end

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BOFH: Videoconferencing for special dummies

Can't question the documentation if there is no documentation

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India delays planned space station and moon base by five years

As results from 2023's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma

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