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FCC boss urges speedy spectrum auction to fund 'Rip'n'Replace' of Chinese kit

Telcos would effectively fund grants paid to protect national security

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Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

Make America irate again

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Zuck takes a page from Musk: Meta dumps fact-checkers, loosens speech restrictions

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A successful real-estate billionaire and Donald Trump walk into a bar...

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Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X chip targets $600 Copilot+ PCs

Hopes to elbow out competition on Arm-based hardware

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UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push

Nation's dominant broadband plumber wins ahead of altnets

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The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month

Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance ... nothing to do with a free storage loophole

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Intel debuts laptop silicon that doesn't qualify for Microsoft's 'Copilot+ PC' badge

TOPS, SCHMOPS, says Chipzilla, our NPUs may be slow but that doesn't matter

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Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride

Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts

Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision

It'll all end in tiers

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Turbulence at UN aviation agency as probe into potential data theft begins

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DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury

Marc Rogers is 'lucky to be alive'

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US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

This could be the start of a saga to rival TikTok’s troubles, and embroil Tesla and Microsoft

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Uncle Sam now targets six landlord giants in war on alleged algorithmic rent fixing

One of ya is gonna sing like a canary, prosecutors say

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John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway?

Lots of new ways to cut labor costs, no mention of repairability

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AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask

LLMs do more for developers who already know what they're doing

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Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content

It's down to users to do the fact-checking themselves

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Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB

Do you really need a new PC for Microsoft's latest and greatest?

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Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook

Engineer who works on ways to prove that code is mathematically correct finds his field is suddenly much less obscure

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The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68

That is not dead which can eternal lie… including the grandparent of C, apparently

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Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC

Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu

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First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10

Bezos booster finally ready for action

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Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Leaders miffed at 'unacceptable interference'

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