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AI Spending Spree Continues As Microsoft Commits $80B For 2025

With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait The AI datacenter spending splurge looks likely ... Read more

Google's 10-year Chromebook Lifeline Leaves Old Laptops Headed For Silicon Cemetery

Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap Google promised a decade of updates for its Ch... Read more

AI Vs. Cybersecurity: Protecting Executives From 'Perfect' Phishing Scams

The digital age has brought a new wave of cyber threats, and at the forefront are AI-generated phishing scams. These hig... Read more

How Datacenters Use Water And Why Kicking The Habit Is Nearly Impossible

If they're not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is Feature  The explosive growth of datacenter... Read more

Encryption Backdoor Debate 'done And Dusted,' Former White House Tech Advisor Says

When the FBI urges E2EE, you know it's serious business interview  In the wake of the Salt Typhoon hacks, which lawmak... Read more

Honey Co-founder's Pie Adblock Called Out For Copying GPL'd UBlock Origin Files

And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week acc... Read more

First Foxconn, Now Microsoft: Wisconsin Town Dissed By Big Tech

Redmond's pause to redesign planned datacenters won't scuttle this project, say Mount Pleasant officials Count the resi... Read more

Were Paying For What We Dont Get: East D.C. Neighbors Frustrated With Amazons Prime Delivery Exclusions

Locals demand transparency - and a refund wouldn't hurt Feature  When data scientist Andrew Breza learned that the Was... Read more

With Datacenter Power Crisis Looming, US Government Looks To Constellation

Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too Constellation E... Read more

US Logic In Question, But Perhaps American Memory Can Still Prevail

With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Comment  The US once led the worl... Read more

IBM And GlobalFoundries Settle Multibillion-dollar Trade Secret And Contract Lawsuits

Clears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair IBM and semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries have settled all of... Read more

Tech Titans Hide In Shadows Awaiting Trump Tariff Threats

Being more diplomatic than the politicians makes sense amid fear of upsetting the next US President A eerie quiet has d... Read more

Nick Clegg Steps Down As Meta's Top Flack In Favor Of More Trump-friendly Candidate

Runny Clegg scrambles for door The Right Honourable Sir Nick Clegg (to give him his full title) has stepped down from h... Read more

Accenture Wins £35M More UK Tax Work Without Competition Despite Promise To 'disaggregate'

System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says The UK tax collector has han... Read more

HMD Fusion: A Budget Repairable Smartphone With Modular Flair

Expansion port on the back lets you add Outfits with added functions Review  HMD's Fusion smartphone has a pogo-pin po... Read more