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Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse

Terminally dumb tellies now ... if they switch on the Wi-Fi

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Borking on the corner, watching the world go by

A Baltic bork in the Republic of Lithuania

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Samsung splurges $200bn to bring 'new future order' over next few years – meaning chips, pharma, comms

Apparently the revolution is now, and it is well funded

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Nvidia extends its commodity server on-prem AI push into hyperconverged tin

VMware-packaged AI suite now on sale

Playdate handheld game system torn to pieces, crank and all

We never managed to fix our Game Boy, but maybe we could repair this?

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Gartner Gartner on the wall, which is the hypest cycle of them all?

Omnipresent analyst house returns to the source

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More than half of companies rethinking back-to-office plans amid variant uncertainty and vaccine mandates – survey

Thought you were all set to return? Yeah, about that

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Intel, Qualcomm win deal to design 7nm silicon for US defense agencies

Chipzilla gets to make 'em and crow that it has a really prestigious foundry customer

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Fake Apple rep amasses 620,000+ stolen iCloud pics, vids in hunt for images of nude women to trade

Scumbag spent years tricking victims into handing over login details

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Proofpoint wins $14m from ex-VP and French email security rival in IP theft court battle

Jury finds message-filtering tech misappropriation was 'wilful and malicious'

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Chinese auto-maker accused of altering data after fatal autonomous car accident

Driver assistance feature was engaged in level-2 autonomous car at time of incident

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It’s not if you embrace AI, it’s when

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No place like GNOME: 41 is in beta, features frozen for forthcoming release

Also: After over 10 years, last stable release of GNOME 3.x

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GitLab 14.2 brings macOS 'build cloud' closed beta and improved Gitpod support among nearly 50 new features

Open-source rival shows it can compete with Microsoft's GitHub

British teachers' pensions set to be released from Capita's grasp after nearly 30 years

Contract first signed in 1996 comes to an end in 2025

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Robots don't smoke, says Alibaba, and that's why they deliver parcels so fast

Rolling out test fleet of 1000 in low-traffic locations across China

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Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

Will this nightmare ever cease?

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Solar System's fastest-orbiting asteroid spotted, flies closer to the Sun than Mercury

Boffins ponder where space rock came from

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