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Google tells court: Our rivals gave US govt confidential dirt on us to fuel antitrust case. Now we want to see it
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.…
AMD unveils its MI100 GPU, said to be its most powerful silicon for supercomputers, high-end AI processing
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.…
GitHub restores DMCA-hit youtube-dl code repo after source patched to counter RIAA's takedown demand
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.…
As nearly everyone stays home for the pandemic, plunge in overseas charges dents Vodafone's revenues
Vodafone was today left counting the cost of reduced international travel among its customer base due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Qualcomm gets hall pass from Uncle Sam to supply Huawei with mobile chipsets. There's just one catch: It's for 4G only
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.…
Pass us a tissue: Capita CFO calls it quits, talks of 'privilege' to work at 'centre' of biz that 'touches the lives of millions'
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.…
Wondering how AI and 5G are set to change your world?
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.…
<i>Street Fighter</i> maker says soz after ransomware hadoukens servers leaving 350,000 folks' data at risk of compromise
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.…
Facebook's Giphy slurp remains on hold after UK competition regulator demands more info
Facebook remains barred from integrating social media GIF engine Giphy into its wider corporate operations following a failed legal bid.…
Honey, I shrunk the iPhone 12: Mini teardown reveals same components, only smaller
Though the iPhone 12 Mini is the smallest device in Apple's newest lineup, it is largely feature-complete when compared with its stablemates.…
UK.gov's centralised buying agency wafts £1.2bn of taxpayer cash in return for a bevy of back-office software
The UK government's Crown Commercial Services (CCS) has issued a contract for back-office software with an estimated street value of £1.2bn.…
Images of women coerced by adult companies poison dataset popularised by deepfake smut creators
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.…
UK West Midlands town finds five-year HR system deal is only offer on the table in pandemic-stricken procurement
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.…
Not on your Zoom, not on Teams, not Google Meet, not BlueJeans. WebEx, Skype and Houseparty make us itch. No, not FaceTime, not even Twitch
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.…
KDE maintainers speak on why it is worth looking beyond GNOME
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.…
Panic in the mailroom: The perils of an operating system too smart for its own good
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).…
International infosec rules delivered to make nations and non-state actors behave themselves online
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.…
The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised
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.…
This year’s biggest innovators? Hackers and cybercriminals. Again
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.…
They’ve only gone and bloody done it – yawn – again! NASA, SpaceX send four to ISS
NASA and SpaceX are celebrating the successful launch of the first non-experimental commercial crewed launch.…