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Lees meerAmendment to bill doesn’t name Chinese companies ... but is eerily similar to regs that target Huawei and ZTE The Irish government has amended its Communications Regulations Bill 2022 with clauses that will allow it to blacklist networking equipment…
Lees meerShares misinformation, re-litigates takeover trial, complains about on-boarding process, and more Chief Twit Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and shown he is well and truly up to the job title he gave himself after paying $44 billion for the m…
Lees meerThree million datasets to be thoroughly integrated in the name of efficiency, e-government, and surveillance China's State Council has outlined a plan to create a National Integrated Government Affairs Big Data System that, by the year 2025, is expe…
Lees meerOh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags Instruments installed on the International Space Station to examine Earth's atmospheric dust have been found to have another useful purpose: detecting airborne methane plumes contribu…
Lees meerPLUS: China’s digital currency surges; Infosys tax portals wobble again; Singapore crypto protections; and more Asia In Brief India's government has given itself the power to compel social networks to take down content.…
Lees meerSo crazy, it just might work A sample depot will be set up on Mars for NASA's Perseverance rover to stash Martian rock and gas specimens ahead of a lander arriving to return the material to Earth sometime in the 2030s ... hopefully.…
Lees meer'They may not work yet, or indeed ever,' says ICO's deputy commissioner Companies should think twice before deploying AI-powered emotional analysis systems prone to systemic biases and other snafus, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) w…
Lees meerBuilder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year Obituary Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100.…
Lees meerThe party's over and the pain begins Analysis For a company hoping to make a grand comeback in a few years, things are not looking great for Intel.…
Lees meerPocket change for troubled Facebook giant, plus more US election news Despite warnings of Chinese and Russian mischief and manipulation ahead of the US midterm elections, it seems American companies and citizens are perfectly capable of denting demo…
Lees meerRaspberry Robin hits 1,000 orgs in just one month Raspberry Robin, a worm that spreads through Windows systems via USB drives, has rapidly evolved: now backdoor access is being sold or offered to infected machines so that ransomware, among other cod…
Lees meerUrges peace in space, while also threatening to shoot western war zone internet out of the sky Russia has warned the United Nations that commercial space systems – like Starlink – risk becoming legitimate military targets if they continue to be used…
Lees meerGood for AMD and Apple? Now let's make it easier for everyone, Taiwanese chipmaker says AMD turned to advanced packaging to create chiplet designs and become a formidable CPU player again. Apple used the tech to beef up the power of its M1 Ultra chi…
Lees meerReport claims thousands of orgs are still happily writing checks Only a "handful" of US states have stopped buying Chinese technologies deemed by the government to pose security threats, according to a report from a Washington policy research group.…
Lees meerThe software giant expects a fix, but not until at least next week An October Patch Tuesday update for Windows 10 is causing OneDrive and OneDrive for Business cloud storage services to crash, Microsoft has confirmed.…
Lees meerChief twit celebrates closing deal with characteristic humility Comment Famed cave rescue expert Elon Musk has realized his dreams and completed the acquisition of influential social media platform Twitter.…
Lees meerDucks Zuck's bad luck as fanbois chuck bucks at M2 SoC... but CFO warns it's unlikely to last Apple bucked negative sentiments in a tough week for big technology businesses by meeting analysts’ revenue estimates for its latest quarter, yet it too is…
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