EU is thinking of killing off geo-blocking for video
Big content mortified
The European Parliament's Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection is suggesting expanding geo-blocking restrictions to the audiovisual sector, including streaming platforms.
Germans stick data centres in windmills
Makes them carbon neutral
A new German-based project called WindCORES operates data centres inside existing wind turbines, making them almost completely carbon neutral.
US government close to killing off Firefox support
Making the red panda browser more endangered
The US government might be set to remove support for Mozilla's Firefox browser due to an obscure guideline for developers.
UK has another crack at banning internet p*rn
Forcing sites to confirm the age of users
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users' ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act.
PlayStation users pushed off the network
Accounts suspended
Many PlayStation Network users reported that their accounts were unexpectedly permanently suspended.
Amazon moans to UK anti-trust body
Microsoft has been a big meanie
Amazon has told Britain's antitrust authority that its rival Microsoft uses business practices restricting customer choice in the cloud computing market. It is the second major company to criticise the US tech giant's operations.
Microsoft offers to extend Windows 10’s life
Beyond 14 October 2025
Software King of the World Microsoft has confirmed that it will extend Windows 10's support beyond 14 October 2025 if users pay it extra.
Robbers return a phone because it didn’t have an Apple logo
But the phone was much better
Stupid thieves returned a stolen Galaxy S23 Ultra because it was not an iPhone, and they thought selling it would not make them enough cash.
AMD does well in November Steam survey
Up 4.7 per cent in GPUs and 8.4 per cent in CPUs
AMD is showing significant gains in November's latest Steam hardware survey - up 4.7 per cent in GPUs and 8.4 per cent in CPUs.
Musk pins hopes on SMEs
Please give me all your money
After losing key advertisers like Apple, IBM and Disney with his superior management skills, Elon [look at me] Musk is trying to interest small to medium-sized businesses to advertise in his social notworking business X.