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AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-prem
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Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them
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Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS
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Research19 Sep 2024 | 5
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Databases19 Sep 2024 | 2
Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe
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Pulumi releases security management product, touts benefits of IaC using general-purpose programming languages
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UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group
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Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it
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Software19 Sep 2024 | 22
SiFive expands from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator
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AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 3
Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters
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Systems19 Sep 2024 | 7
Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin
Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 24
NTT Data, IBM team on mainframe cloud for banks
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Off-Prem19 Sep 2024 | 4
Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers
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Systems19 Sep 2024 | 2
LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in
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Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win
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Personal Tech18 Sep 2024 | 9
FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds
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Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
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Putin really wants Trump back in the White House
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IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says
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Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war
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Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT
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California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one
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AI + ML18 Sep 2024 | 16
Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot
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Science18 Sep 2024 | 1
Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure
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Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings
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