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Lyft, Uber drivers boost app surge prices by turning off, tuning out – and cashing in
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Do Not Track is back in the US Senate. And this time it means business. As in, fining businesses that stalk you online
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20 May 21:16 |
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20 May 20:27 |
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20 May 19:25 |
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20 May 18:24 |
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UK's planned Espionage Act will crack down on Snowden-style Brit whistleblowers, suspected backdoored gear (cough, Huawei)
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20 May 17:29 |
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Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft's Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot
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20 May 15:15 |
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20 May 13:58 |
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20 May 13:30 |
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17 May 18:30 |
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It's not chicken feed: Million-dollar meal deal for livestock sabotaged by hackers... and, er, exchange rates
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17 May 17:30 |
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17 May 16:30 |
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Standards group W3C wins support from all major players to get AI working in the browser
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17 May 14:28 |
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Business
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17 May 14:15 |
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Cray's found a super scooper, $1.3bn's gonna buy you. HPE's the one
Substantial losses weren't much fun, now we'll wait till deal is done
17 May 13:42 |
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Data Centre
Intel budges Samsung out of its seat at the top of silicon-slinger league
As most chip suppliers take a hit on sales
17 May 13:02 |
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Artificial Intelligence
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DRAM, that's cold: Overclockers squeeze out extra Micron DDR4 performance with liquid nitrogen system
Hardly practical but the headroom is there
17 May 11:45 |
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SpaceX takes a leaf from the Microsoft playbook and stands down Starlink for an update
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Do the thing ASAP, you know how it works by now
17 May 08:09 |
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Data Centre
Dedicated techie risks life and limb to locate office conference phone hiding under newspaper
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Freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning back in jail for refusing to testify before secret grand jury
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Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog
Flash automaker insists victim 'immediately removed his hands from the wheel'
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Bloke accused of conning ARIN out of 750,000 IPv4 addresses worth $9m+ to peddle on black market
The failure to shift to IPv6 is now literally a criminal matter
17 May 00:13 |
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16 May 23:37 |
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