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Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles

 

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Google has arranged special insurance for its cloud – if you share some data with Allianz and Munich Re

Pitches 'shared fate' scheme as an upgrade to current convention of cloud sec being your problem

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ASEAN bloc's five-year ICT Masterplan was too big to be a winner, says final report

Good tech policy vital as Asian states climb out of the COVID-19 crunch

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Japanese billionaire invites y'all to apply for an all-expenses-paid Moon trip in a SpaceX Starship – like the one that blew up today

Eight plucky applicants will be picked for journey of a lifetime

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What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon

Dodgy doppelganger not the first, won’t be the last

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9 years after SpaceX strode into Texas village, Elon Musk floats name change for Boca Chica: 'Starbase'

If he said it on Twitter it must be all above board, right?

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Telecoms shack in the middle of Scotland put up for auction at £7,500

No broadband or bedroom though, so you'll have to sign up for sats or build your own

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Intel told by jury to pay $2.18bn to VLSI for ripping off two semiconductor patents

Chipzilla vows to appeal verdict

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Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web

Notes an 'erosion of trust' – gee, wonder who could be responsible for that...

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Now that we're emerging from COVID-19 hell, who's ready for some on-prem IT, asks on-prem IT giant HPE

Demand will increase, says CEO, as HPC chief heads for the exit

Hidden text in MacOS 11.3 beta suggests removal of Rosetta 2 compatibility layer in some countries

Time to go down to Memphis, er, Cupertino, to check for a decree

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Nvidia exec love-bombs Arm's licensing model, almost protests too much

'Their open licensing model is absolutely one of the greatest licensing models out there'

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Equinix prepping to unleash 128-core Ampere Arm silicon in its 'Metal' not-quite-cloud

For now, you get Dell and Pure Storage-as-a-service and more metallic locations

The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO

One warning email.... then three years of backup gone in a flash, says storage exec

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The classic hits keep coming from IBM: z/OS set for big update in September

Mainframe operating system to get more AI, hybrid cloud cred, expanded coprocessor support

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Qualys hit with ransomware: Customer invoices leaked on extortionists' Tor blog

Ace infosec biz aware and investigating, we're told

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Proof of concept code published for latest Saltstack CVE: Don't be an update laggard

Any user could become root, warns Immersive Labs researcher

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Cybersecurity threats aren't getting any smaller. Could big data help?

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It's not easy being green: EV HTTPS cert seller Sectigo questions Chrome's logic in burying EV HTTPS cert info

Seeing as Google thinks no one cares about location records, we'll remove street addresses from all our sites, says compliance chief

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Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative

Hackers are friends not foes, says Alyssa Miller in this opening argument for our latest debate

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TPG buys Thycotic, immediately merges it with Centrify to create ~$230m access management monster

Product consolidation roadmap? Not yet. But all involved say the combo will work out just fine

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Microsoft promises end-to-end encrypted Teams calls for some, invites you to go passwordless with Azure AD

When there are passphrases, there is inherent risk, says Redmond

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Eugene Kaspersky says cyber-crooks coined it during COVID and will take a break to spend their loot

Not so fast, says infosec boffin, because crims know returning workers will be easy prey

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Analyse this: Microsoft promises OLAP-OLTP 'Link' with new CosmosDB features

Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Google's multi-platform app framework Flutter reaches version 2, expands to the web

The same tech inside Google Pay, Shopping, Analytics, Ads, etc

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Microsoft celebrates Ignite by ramming 21H1 down the throats of Windows Insiders

Ready or not, here I come!

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Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles

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IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot

Terms of deal not disclosed as Big Blue insists it wasn't wrong, but merely didn't follow design standards

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