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Google Sued By More Than 30 European Media Orgs Over Adtech

Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers A group of more than 30 European media organiz... Read more

Uncle Sam Explores Satellites That Can Create Propellant Out Of Thin Air

Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up Electric propulsion systems that generate pow... Read more

Chinese PC-maker Acemagic Customized Its Own Machines To Get Infected With Malware

Tried to speed boot times, maybe by messing with 'Windows source code', ended up building a viral on-ramp Chinese PC ma... Read more

Toyota Admits Its Engines Are Overrated – By Its Own Power Testing Software

Japan's government slapped it for using the wrong code to produce too-powerful results Toyota apologized on Wednesday f... Read more

Australian Spy Chief Fears Sabotage Of Critical Infrastructure

And accuses a former Australian politician of having 'sold out their country' The director general of security at Austr... Read more

Chinese Chip Slinger Found Not Guilty Of Stealing Memory Secrets From Micron

Fujian Jinhua escapes prosecution tho remains on the US sanctions list A Chinese chipmaker accused of stealing DRAM sec... Read more

Chip Fab Supplier Applied Materials Gets Subpoenaed Over China Sales

Comes after US probe into biz's dealings with SMIC Updated  Applied Materials was served with multiple subpoenas relat... Read more

Broadcom CEO Pay Award Jumps 164% To $160.8 Million

Stock awards front loaded, get five years in one go Broadcom's boss Hock Tan more than doubled his total compensation p... Read more

Atos Confirms Sale Talks For Datacenter And Hosting Biz Have Failed

Czech billionaire buyer walks away from ailing Tech Foundations division Troubled tech giant Atos confirmed today that ... Read more

City Council Megaproject To Spend Millions For Manual Work Oracle System Was Meant To Do

Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money Europe’s largest local authority has ... Read more

Plans To Heat Districts With Datacenters May Prove Too Hot To Handle

Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right Using waste heat from datacenters for district heatin... Read more

Europe Probes Microsoft's €15M Stake In AI Upstart Mistral

Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed The European Commission is investigating Microsoft's ... Read more

Google Wants Regulators To Take Microsoft Down A Notch Before It Stifles AI

Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly Updated  Google has again stoked fears th... Read more

Husqvarna Ports Doom To A Robot Lawnmower – Not, Thankfully, Its Chainsaws

Seminal game runs on everything, so why not pay €2,199 to run it on a tiny screen? Swedish garden appliance maker Hus... Read more

EU Sanctions Indian Tech Outfit That Has Partnered With New Delhi's IT Ministry

Si2 Microsystems was tapped for silicon photonics expertise, but has Russian ties that worry Washington and Brussels Th... Read more