Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations [Fri Jan 28 2022]

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ServiceNow CEO says mergers and acquisitions are off the table – too messy

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FCC pulls the plug on China Unicom's permission to provide telecoms in the US

As commissioner suggests watchdog gets ability to crack down further on China-controlled data centers

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FPGA now means Finally, PRC Grants Approval: China OKs AMD's $35bn Xilinx buy

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Customers in mid-tier band facing up to 50% higher fees... and they're delighted

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Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique

While creators were stripping away annoying styling, users started to make Geminispace a bunker, says engineer

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Imagination GPU cleared for RISC-V CPU compatibility, licensed to chip designers

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Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe

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Twelve years after Intel was fined $1.2bn for unfairly running over rivals, an EU court says: No need to pay

Ah, y'know what, maybe those rebates for not using AMD chips weren't so anti-competitive after all, eh?

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How US sanctions slugged Huawei and helped Apple top China's Q4 smartphone sales

Cupertino cut prices and cleaned up

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Intel fails to get Spectre, Meltdown chip flaw class-action super-suit tossed out

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US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans

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Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto

Nasty demands hefty Bitcoin ransom

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Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations

Bitter contract dispute revealed HLR lookup capability baked into agreement

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Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services

Advises citizens to avoid 'Ponzi schemes'

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China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet

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For first time in 31 years, stable Linux kernel version has over 999 commits – but not everyone heard about it

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Carked it, Diem? Zuckerberg's grand cryptocurrency thing may sell off assets for $200m

Facebook-born blockchain payment system's day well and truly seized

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Burning plasma signals step forward in race for nuclear fusion as researchers get bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment

But work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' they say

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Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info

'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways'

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