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Dept of Justice lawyers: No way

Google has insisted it needs to see the confidential information that its competitors provided to the US Department of Justice in support of an antitrust case against the tech giant.…

Chip takes aim at Nvidia's A100

AMD announced on Monday its Instinct MI100 accelerator, a GPU aimed at speeding up AI and other vector-heavy work done by supercomputers and high-end servers.…

Software warehouse also pledges to review claims better, $1m defense fund for open-source coders

Microsoft's GitHub on Monday restored access to youtube-dl, software for streaming and downloading YouTube videos, after removing the repository and forked versions last month in response to a controversial DMCA complaint from the RIAA, the US music industry trade group.…

Dare we say... telco fiddled while roam burned?

Vodafone was today left counting the cost of reduced international travel among its customer base due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Which is hardly a reprieve for Chinese company's throttled handset biz

In a rare bit of good news for Huawei's mobile business, Qualcomm has won a licence from the US Department of Commerce to provide the business with selected 4G chipsets.…

New interim human calculator hired, permanent replacement being hunted

Capita's most senior counter of beans, CFO Patrick Butcher, is standing down from the board with immediate effect and will – according to the business – "assist" his chosen replacement as he hands over the corporate calculator.…

Join this Intel webinar and learn how to unleash your data

Promo  All the data in the world means nothing if you’re not getting it to the right place at the right time and drawing insights out.…

Capcom KO'd by 'criminal organisation that calls itself Ragnar Locker'

Japanese games giant Capcom, the company behind the 33-year-old Street Fighter franchise, has issued "deepest apologies" to customers and other stakeholders whose details were exposed in a ransomware attack.…

Tribunal ruling prevents the Zuckerborg from swallowing GIF peddler until further notice

Facebook remains barred from integrating social media GIF engine Giphy into its wider corporate operations following a failed legal bid.…

And with better repairability than its big brother too

Though the iPhone 12 Mini is the smallest device in Apple's newest lineup, it is largely feature-complete when compared with its stablemates.…

Software subscriptions and licence support a must for bidding businesses

The UK government's Crown Commercial Services (CCS) has issued a contract for back-office software with an estimated street value of £1.2bn.…

Plus: Uber to sell off its self-driving unit, and pay $200 to spy on anyone you'd like in Russia

In brief  Thousands of nude images from a popular dataset designed to train machine learning models to create AI-generated adult content are often taken from porn production companies accused of sexual abuse.…

Five more years, five more years... or nothing!

A West Midlands town has found out the hard way exactly how much sympathy IT suppliers have for public sector bodies disrupted by the unprecedented circumstances of the current COVID-19 pandemic.…

Time to call time on video. Just NO. No interoperability, no

Column  As we struggle wearily towards the beginning of the end of the pandemic, we can take stock of what we as a species and as a society have learned.…

The Qt advantage? 'We're a weird by-product of coffee machines and cars'

Interview  KDE Plasma is a Linux desktop which has just been updated to 5.20 - but why should users consider it instead of GNOME, the default for Ubuntu and Red Hat, or the lightweight Xfce? We spoke to Plasma maintainers David Edmundson and Jonathan Riddell.…

That other 1973 hit: The Dark Side of the Mainframe

Who, Me?  Modern life is rubbish, so take a trip back to the 1970s with a Who, Me? all about the Master Control Program (MCP).…

Don’t hack, don’t backdoor, don’t hurt the internet … and don’t expect rapid adoption because there’s still a lot of multilateral work to be done

The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC), a group that works to develop policy the world can follow to keep the internet stable and secure, late last week delivered a final report that outlines its vision for how the nations of the world should behave online.…

When recommendation engines promote misinformation during a pandemic, it's a matter of life and death

My television is trying to radicalise me with an endless stream of recommendations to watch videos from a mainstream media outlet that deliberately inhabits a place on outer reaches of the political spectrum.…

Learn to think like an attacker so you can start fighting back

Webcast  This year has turned corporate IT upside down, scuppering digital transformation plans as tech teams struggle to keep the lights on and support a suddenly remote workforce.…

First certified commercial crewed spaceflight flies, but fuel heaters are acting up

NASA and SpaceX are celebrating the successful launch of the first non-experimental commercial crewed launch.…