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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC

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Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust

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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

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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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