TCI Fund says buying stake in tech biz would be 'extremely inefficient use of shareholder funds' Airbus should "immediately terminate negotiations" to buy a minority stake in Atos's breakaway security, big data and digital transformation business, E…
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Lees meerSystem back online with money still there, thanks to Japanese regulations FTX's Japan outpost announced on Monday it would once again allow withdraw of both fiat and crypto assets, beginning at noon local time on Tuesday.…
Lees meerSuggest fundamental semiconductor physics research is needed if China is to build viable local industry China’s Academy of Science has offered a blueprint to create a semiconductor industry that circumvents the USA’s bans on exports of technology to…
Lees meerThreats to voters also reported as vote for regional internet registry heats up Regional internet registry the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has appointed external lawyers to consider allegations of multiple breaches of its electio…
Lees meerCrashes like FTX and Terra have made regulation necessary, say authorities, even as Territory seeks to become a virtual asset hub Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has called for feedback on a plan to require virtual asset trading …
Lees meerVietnam has also struggled with four out of five cables in strife The prospect of China invading Taiwan, and inducing strategic, diplomatic, economic, and tech supply chain crises, imagines that Taiwan’s main island would be the main site of any kin…
Lees meerAmateur fleshbag defeats synthetic in 14 of 15 games Think that puny humans don't stand a chance when playing strategy games against an AI? You may have to think again. One person in the US beat an AI at the ancient game of Go by simply distracting …
Lees meerSettles lawsuit with two states after wider leak that affected millions A DNA diagnostics company will pay $400,000 and tighten its security in the wake of a 2021 attack where criminals broke into its network and swiped personal data on over two mil…
Lees meerBig Red 'has a history of changing offerings' without allowing renewals of legacy products Gartner is warning that Oracle "actively targets organizations" on Java compliance following the introduction of new contractual terms for the code.…
Lees meerHow much are sidewinder missiles going for these days? Having spent the first half of the month blasting anything that moved out of the sky following the destruction of a Chinese spy balloon, it has emerged that the US could have spent hundreds of t…
Lees meerDepending on tier you use, rises of between 257% and 900% scheduled for May 1 Microsoft is implementing massive price hikes for developers that use the Bing Search API, with some of the tiers scheduled to see rises up to nine times their current lev…
Lees meerAims at those who need help with green targets ... months after Intel axes R&D into tech GlobalConnect claims to be the first colocation provider in Europe to offer immersion-based cooling to customers, and expects to expand the service to all of it…
Lees meerDon't rush in if you don't need it – there may be more cons than pros Canonical has made a Real-time edition of Ubuntu 22.04 available on x86 and Arm… but only to Ubuntu Pro customers, and there are some potential issues you should know about.…
Lees meer'Easier to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture when we’re in the office together' 3 days a week, says CEO Amazon boss Andy Jassy is demanding a return to the office for the "majority" of the company's 300,000-strong corporate workforc…
Lees meerCue the dawning realization for thousands of content creators Those pencil-necked desk jockeys at His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are about to give the UK's legions of online "content creators" and "influencers" a rather rude awakening by r…
Lees meerTech has changed in 400 years. The rules haven’t Opinion Mary, Queen of Scots, was a hapless CEO, even by the standards of 1600s Europe. Mother of the first Stuart King of England, James I (and VI of Scotland; let's not go into that), she was herse…
Lees meerThe sysadmin who made this mistake just barely survived the NSFW backlash Who, Me? Once again, gentle reader, it is time to dive into the treacherous waters of Who, Me? in which readers tell us tales of days when things did not go quite right.…
Lees meerPaid accounts will be more prominent than your shouty relatives and get – wait for it – a support line Social network supremo Mark Zuckerberg announced on Sunday that the artist formerly known as Facebook will follow in the footsteps of Twitter by o…
Lees meer90-day stretch comes after Euro-probe paused for production of paperwork VMware and Broadcom have given themselves more time to conclude the acquisition of the former by the latter.…
Lees meerAlso: Google asks staff to rewrite Bard's responses; EU's AI bill may stall; Endangered architects AI in brief Microsoft will start limiting the length of conversations with its AI-driven Bing chatbot to 50 turns per day, in a bid to prevent it gen…
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