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Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'

State masks up finally – its IP addresses, that is

How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible

If they're not consuming H₂O directly, the power plant almost certainly is

Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files

And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution

First Foxconn, now Microsoft: Wisconsin town dissed by big tech

Redmond's pause to redesign planned datacenters won't scuttle this project, say Mount Pleasant officials

We’re paying for what we don’t get: East D.C. neighbors frustrated with Amazon’s Prime delivery exclusions

Locals demand transparency - and a refund wouldn't hurt

With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation

Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too

US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail

With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push

IBM and GlobalFoundries settle multibillion-dollar trade secret and contract lawsuits

Clears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair

Tech titans hide in shadows awaiting Trump tariff threats

Being more diplomatic than the politicians makes sense amid fear of upsetting the next US President

Nick Clegg steps down as Meta's top flack in favor of more Trump-friendly candidate

Runny Clegg scrambles for door

HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair

Expansion port on the back lets you add Outfits with added functions

Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks

Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking

Tech support warrior left cosplay battle and Trekked to the office

Set aside the bat'leth to fix trivial problem for p'takh

Scale up and speed on AWS and IBM help organizations across industries accelerate SAP modernization.

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Security

Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online

PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more

Encryption backdoor debate 'done and dusted,' former White House tech advisor says

When the FBI urges E2EE, you know it's serious business

Atos denies Space Bears' ransomware claims – with a 'but'

Points finger at third-party infrastructure being breached

How Data Scientists Are Using the AWS Cloud to Help Consumers Save Money Case Study

Numerix, Leading Provider of Capital Markets Technology, Migrates to AWS with RapidScale Case Study

Software

How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software

Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure

How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC

A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language

Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust

Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss

Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to 'disaggregate'

System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says

Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget

South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements

5 Steps for a Cost-efficient Migration to AWS Cloud

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Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators

New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA

Shackleton's Endurance sets sail for polar peril in Lego

Because we're all still kids – just richer

Amazon worker – struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack – initially denied time off

Web giant now pledges full support

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode

As if the bot defense measure wasn't obnoxious enough

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