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Lees meerBut Congress is on top of that, right? A US federal tax change that took effect in 2022 thanks to a time-triggered portion of the Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act may leave entrepreneurs with massive tax bills. …
Lees meerInterest in Japanese’s firm’s public sector deals – worth $15B in the UK alone since 2012 – spikes Analysis Since the broadcast of a television drama telling the story of the Post Office Horizon scandal — one of the most serious miscarriages of jus…
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Lees meerOur vulture spent a week in Las Vegas for CES 2024 – here are his key takeaways Column Every January in Las Vegas a few hundred thousand folks gather to learn about the latest innovations from an ever-broadening range of gadget makers, appliance ma…
Lees meerMessaging menace used text and email to bombard people Food delivery company HelloFresh is nursing a £140,000 ($178k) fine by Britain’s data privacy watchdog after a probe found it had dispatched upwards of a staggering 79 million spam email and one…
Lees meerUsing embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery Opinion Software Freedom Conservancy's (SFC) Executive Director Karen Sandler was last year awarded an honorary doct…
Lees meerUsing embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery Opinion Software Freedom Conservancy's (SFC) Executive Director Karen Sandler was last year awarded an honorary doct…
Lees meerAnd he would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for this one tiny backdoor On Call Welcome once more, dear reader, to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column detailing the delights and dangers of working in tech support.…
Lees meerHint: US, UK, European antitrust police are on the hunt Analysis Data egress fees aren't going away, but if you really want to ditch Google Cloud and take your data somewhere else, the search giant is willing to cut you a break.…
Lees meerNow that's a smart move CES Despite all the buzz around internet-connected smart cars at this year's CES in Las Vegas, most folks don't want vehicle manufacturers sharing their personal data with third parties – and even say they'd consider buying …
Lees meerHeads up, this isn't about Elon When the World Economic Forum meets in Davos next week, global leaders are set to discuss how to prevent a future unknown "Disease X" the World Health Organization predicts could kill 20 times more people than the rec…
Lees meerDatacenter biz plans to deploy 32,000 Nvidia H100 and H200s next year Nvidia may not be able to sell its top-specced GPUs in China, but across the border in India, datacenter operators are buying up tens of thousands of accelerators to bolster their…
Lees meerSeven words you can't say – This won't backfire and ruin art forever The makers of an hour-long AI-generated comedy special mimicking the late and great American comedian and actor George Carlin have been criticized for, apparently, not obtaining ex…
Lees meerNow you'll never have an excuse for missing that weekend work text or call SpaceX's Starlink has confirmed a successful test of its Direct to Cell (DTC) technology with a two-way text conversation held earlier this week. …
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