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UK Tax Collector Puts Half A Billion On Table For Call Center Services

Taxpayers on hold for 798 years might wish for a better service The UK's tax collector has confirmed plans to contract ... Read more

Some Signs Of AI Model Collapse Begin To Reveal Themselves

Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse Opinion  I use AI a lot, but not to write stories. I use AI f... Read more

Trump Threatens To Add Formal Apple Tax On Top Of The 'Apple Tax'

But pauses tech-adjacent threat to slap all Euro-imports with 50 percent duties World War Fee  US president Donald Tru... Read more

China Approves Rules For National Online Number ID Scheme

PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto Asia In Brief  Chi... Read more

Even A Humble Keyboard Is Now Political In Taiwan

Chinese manufacturers are advertising how they dodge tariffs, and tech leaders know they’re in a new world Computex ... Read more

Cybercrime Is 'orders Of Magnitude' Larger Than State-backed Ops, Says Ex-White House Advisor

Michael Daniel also thinks Uncle Sam should increase help to orgs hit by ransomware INTERVIEW  Uncle Sam's cybersecuri... Read more

Datacenter Biz Wants To Turn Heat And Carbon Waste Into Biomass For Sale

From bit barn to algae farm? Euro datacenter operator Data4 is trialling a project to reuse heat from its servers and c... Read more

Nvidia Ain't Done With X86 As It Taps Intel Xeons To Babysit GPUs

AI-optimized CPUs promise 4.6GHz clocks, at least for one in eight cores Computex  When Nvidia first teased its Arm-ba... Read more

Lenovo Thought It Could Surf Geopolitics, Until Trump's Sudden Tariff Changes

Worries about uncertainty, even as AI pushes revenue and profit higher Chinese hardware giant Lenovo thought it had pre... Read more

BT Managers' Union Mulls Options After 'derisory Or Non-existent Pay Rise

Annoyed at poor or missing salary increase offer as Brit telco pays out dividend BT is facing a revolt over pay from it... Read more

User Unboxed A PC So Badly It 'broke' And Only A Nail File Could Fix It

For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer On Call  Welcome to ... Read more

Rideshare Companies In India Are Asking For Tips Before The Trip

Consumer affairs Minister is not happy with Uber for following local players with this scheme to encourage rapid pickup... Read more

Anthropic Claude 4 Models A Little More Willing Than Before To Blackmail Some Users

Open the pod bay door Anthropic on Thursday announced the availability of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, the latest... Read more

AI And Virtualization Are Two Major Headaches For CIOs. Can Storage Help Solve Them Both?

It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo Sponsored feature  CIOs have a storage problem, and the reason can se... Read more

Space Force Tech Mission Threatened By Staff And Funding Black Hole

Budget slashing has 'outsized impact' on us, says commander who fears branch not ready for orbital war The US Space For... Read more