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Redmond ditches own line of mice, keyboards, webcams Microsoft is a brand synonymous with PCs, not just for its market-dominating Windows o...

Go on, Elon, tweet a meme, that'll straighten this all out Tesla broke US labor laws yet again, a watchdog concluded, this time not by ...

The Chinese tech giant has 'yet again increased investment in R&D' to make up for technology losses The first quarter of 2023 w...

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Flash cards are an effective memorization tool, as any test-taker well knows. And if making physical flash cards is useful, why not make th...

Hands off those Chrome users, they're ours! Google said it obtained a court order to shut down domains used to distribute CryptBot afte...

We've progressed from blaming this kinda thing on millennials, immigrants, China, woke libs, etc Dropbox axed 500 employees, or 16 per ...

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If the DPRK is named, you know it somehow involves Lazarus Group The US government is aggressively pursuing three men accused of wide-rangi...

Two out of three public-facing app instances open to hijacking Apache Superset until earlier this year shipped with an insecure default con...

Comms lost to Hakuto-R after apparent crash landing A private company's first attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon ended in apparen...

OT firms construct handy early-warning info-sharing system RSA Conference   A group of some of the largest operational technology companies...

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No surprise for a panel that appears to enjoy taking away rights rather than granting them The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a case ...

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A welcome development, but let's not overdo it Chip maker TSMC in collaboration with ARK Power on Friday said it intended to source 20,...

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Redmond tops industry average, still got a way to go Microsoft has partnered with organizations around the globe to bring more women into i...

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Zuck's 'Year of Efficiency' starts with saving time not learning coworkers' names in case they're booted Meta Platforms...

When it rains, it pours, huh, Pat? Unhappy that IBM licensed chip-making know-how to Intel and foundry upstart Rapidus, GlobalFoundries tod...

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End of free money era and end of free data for building billion-dollar models In a move seemingly designed to stop being used as a free tra...

Charges laid against 44, including officers of China’s Cyberspace Administration The United States Department of Justice has charged 44 peo...

A rather nice beach in Australia now has a rather unusual and hopefully temporary feature An Australian military helicopter crash was repor...

Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs Chinese social media, cloud, and entertainment giant Tencent on Monday rev...

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Everyone else, tough luck Changes to US tax credits for buyers of electric vehicles and hybrids go into effect tomorrow, and the list of qu...

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Foreign minister says it's not afraid of the 'big bad wolf' up north Brazil took its first tentative steps towards a relationsh...

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And you thought patching your production environment was stressful NASA has successfully installed a major software update to its venerable...

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Actual features pending, please pay us now Elon Musk appears to be advancing his feud with newsletter service Substack by announcing he...

Maybe our prince has come at last A suspected Nigerian fraudster is scheduled to appear in court Friday for his alleged role in a $6 millio...

Few orbital boosts and we'll get the snaps in eight years The European Space Agency's Juice probe began its eight-year trek to stud...

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Go on, take the money and run (Not actual legal advice) Google has — unfortunately for some — fixed a bug in its Pay mobile app that was ha...

Blueprints flogged off to Taiwan's MiTAC An Intel division responsible for designing and planning out server-grade systems is the lates...

As Europe forms task force to steer probes into ChatGPT US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is lately bent on passing bipartisan legislation en...

When bragging about your job on Discord gets just a little out of hand? The FBI has detained a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman suspected...

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Senator Wyden warns full probe needed AT&T is "concealing vital cybersecurity reporting" about its FirstNet phone network for...

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Need more speed? Just stuff it with custom ASICs Fortinet claims its latest firewall can secure an entire datacenter while consuming about ...

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Maybe soon all our friends are electric America's Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a bunch of vehicle emissions standards...

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Decade or so behind bars begins April 27 Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' attempt to stave off her time behind bars has been re...

Lawsuits keep piling up for Musk-owned 'trending to breakeven' platform A trio of former Twitter executives led by ex-CEO Parag Agr...

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Yeah, or else Travelers looking to get from Fife to Edinburgh will soon have a new transport option: a fleet of five autonomous buses set t...

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Move fast, make things A runaway supermassive black hole is speeding through space and creating a trail of stars behind it, a phenomenon ac...

So, like, three iPhones and a Mac keyboard Pic   Unidentified individuals managed to break through the wall of a coffee equipment maker...

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Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah? Microsoft will pay more than $3.3 million to settle allegations it busted US ...

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Thanks.dev wants to spread the wealth directly to coders In 2016, the Ford Foundation published a report on the lack of financial support f...

'CORVO' ships with tape and glue, gives defense orgs just-in-time drone capability for a song An Australian engineering company has...

I feel the need, the need for code speed The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending the Pentagon respond better to evolv...

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Prelim Q1 2023 results expected to be company's worst in 14 years Samsung has inked a multi-year agreement with AMD for more Radeon gra...

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Tributes paid to former Square CTO Bob Lee, 43 Tech exec Bob Lee has died after he was stabbed in San Francisco in the early hours of Tuesd...

Metaverse was plan A, is this plan B or C, or what? Meta is building a generative AI system capable of churning out online ads to order and...

Feds managed to image entire backend server with full details The FBI today released additional information about its takedown of the Genes...

How much, you ask? The answer to everything is $0.42 Boffins at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have enlisted ChatGPT, the Open...

And commercial operators, with NASA a keen customer The US government has published a strategy for low-Earth orbit research and development...

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Thieves go nose-to-tail stripping cash from victims The US Department of Justice has seized cryptocurrency worth about $112 million from ac...

Some stitching required but it fools VirusTotal, after a few attempts A Forcepoint security researcher says he used ChatGPT to develop a ze...

Employees doubt IBM's claim that current layoffs were announced already IBM services spinoff Kyndryl has confirmed it's laying off ...

Funny way to describe a company that makes toilet cleaner Multi-brand consumer megacorp Unilever says it has become a "cloud-only ente...

The White House and DoD move to bolster domestic biomanufacturing When the White House rolled out its 64-page plan outlining the goals for ...

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OpenAI tech outperforms digital serfs toiling away on Amazon's estate Machine learning models can do content processing and data sanita...

First for women, people of color, Canucks NASA today named the Artemis Moon program's first crew of astronauts. Among them are the firs...

Only 35 of the trucks affected, but that might be most of the ones on the road Tesla's electric Semi truck, which has only been cruisin...

New layouts for the original 'clickier than the Model M' keyboard What's even harder-core than the IBM Model M? The Model F, th...

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To scupper scams, account-holders must hand over personal info or else Almost two million mobile phone subscribers in Vietnam are at risk o...

Microsoft's cloudy pal 21Vianet upgrades to M365 China somehow, unbelievably, made it through the COVID-19 pandemic without a local ver...

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