Telegram wants to make its business options more professional
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Heading for profit and an IPO

Telegram is revolutionising business communication with the launch of Telegram Business, which it claims will make business communication more efficient and effective.

Post Office spend €119 million in legal fees fighting sub-postmasters
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But knew Horizon IT system was the real villain.

The BBC has unearthed a draft report showing that the Post Office spent a whopping €119 million in legal fees fighting sub-postmasters while ignoring evidence that its own Horizon IT system was the real villain.

Pragmatic unveils UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham
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Despite threatening to Brexit

Pragmatic Semiconductor, headquartered in Cambridge, has made waves by launching the UK's inaugural 300mm wafer fabrication facility in Durham. Despite threatening to leave the UK over a perceived dearth of governmental backing for the burgeoning domestic chip sector.

Samsung teases second-generation AI chip
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AI Reaches Mach 2

Tech titan Samsung is stirring up a silicon storm with whispers of a new AI. CEO Kyung Kye-hyun, has let slip that the Mach-1's big brother, the Mach-2, is on the fast track to tech stardom.

British nuclear power plant in hot water over security blunders
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Potential digital doomsday

The British Sellafield nuclear power plant is facing the music for a catalogue of cyber clangers that could have left the UK's atomic knickers in a twist.

Open sauce outrage
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29 March 2024

Open sauce outrage


Tech giants' greedy grasp turns free code into cash cows

Writing for ComputerWorld the open source guru Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has exposed some cheeky companies that are turning the open source community's hard work into their own gold-lined pockets.

AI overlords to rule the roost in US
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A new job for an IT manager

The White House has declared it's time to get a grip on the AI beast and is rolling out the red carpet for a new breed of boffins: Chief AI Officers.

Apple engineer accused of spilling tech secrets to press
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Apple black shirts swoop

The Fruity cargo cult Apple,  has dragged its former minion, Andrew Aude, to court, accusing him of blabbing about more than a handful of the company's secrets.

Daft tech smuggler caught at customs
Published in Graphics


We don't think you did your sums correctly on this one


In what's surely one of the daftest capers on record, a chap was nabbed trying to ferry 44 AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics cards into China.

Kaby Lake-G platform arises from the dead
Published in PC Hardware


Chipzilla's zombie chip invoked for mini-PC motherboard

Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package, was declared dead in 2019, yet this hasn't deterred a a plucky company's bringing it back from the dead and plonked it into a mini PC motherboard.