Virgin Media O2 lays off hundreds of UK jobs
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Super soaraway Brexit brings new joys

Virgin Media O2 has become the latest telco reportedly looking to cut hundreds of jobs in the UK.

Microsoft finally allows us to swear
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Tuesday, 27 June 2023 12:01

Microsoft finally allows us to swear


Not that there has been a problem for us

Software King of the World Microsoft is toning down the power of its profanity filter on its options and settings.

Baidu’s Ernie bot already outperforming OpenAI’s ChatGPT
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Ernie 3.5 based on more data

China’s search engine outfit Baidu claims that the artificial intelligence model underpinning its chatbot outperformed OpenAI’s ChatGPT in several key areas.

Lithium-ion battery inventor finally runs down
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At age 100

The splendidly named inventor of the lithium-ion battery, John B. Goodenough has died. He was 100.

Supremes refuse to revive case against Google
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This means it does not steal song lyrics

The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media accusing Alphabet's Google of stealing millions of song lyrics.

Americans hate their ISP
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Tuesday, 27 June 2023 11:50

Americans hate their ISP


They only hate their petrol station more 

Americans hate their internet service providers (ISPs) more than any other segment of the consumer economy -- except gas stations.

Nvidia partners with Snowflake on AI
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Tuesday, 27 June 2023 11:47

Nvidia partners with Snowflake on AI


Will help customers build their own products

Cloudy Snowflake is partnering with the chipmaker named after a vengeance daemon Nvidia to allow customers to build AI models using their own data.

IBM close to writing a $5 billion cheque for Apptio
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Cloud shift continues

Big Blue is about to get bigger after buying software Apptio for $5 billion from Vista Equity Partners Management.

TeleSign in GDPR allegations
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Monday, 26 June 2023 11:28

TeleSign in GDPR allegations


Secretly collected data and shipped it to the US

TeleSign, a US-based fraud prevention company, allegedly collected data from millions of EU citizens and processed it in the United States using automated tools without their knowledge an  Austrian privacy advocacy group claims.

White hat hackers will try to break into a satellite
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August DEFCON hacker convention project 

White-hat hackers at the DEFCON hacker convention will compete to try and breach the computer systems on a satellite in orbit.