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Give the government your details or lose your phones Nigeria’s government has ordered telecoms firms…
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NASA’s space-based laser network works
Making the network go “pew pew” NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an…
Ethernet turns 50
And still king The leading technology for connecting computers, Ethernet, has turned 50, and there…
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet breaks even
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Tim flogs off fixed-line business to Americans
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FCC allows 6GHz band for wireless devices
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European telcos call for an end to net neutrality
Big Tech must share their profits with us Europe’s biggest telecom companies have called on…
Emergency alert test postponed in Italy due to rain
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Amazon releases Wi-Fi 7 super router
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GlobalFoundries and Marvell crank up AI optics production
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AI watermarking make models less safe
AI watermarking designed to identify machine-generated text can alter model behaviour and help harmful prompts…
Nvidia Rubin and AMD RDNA 5 GPUs may slip to 2028
Gamers hoping for a fresh GPU generation next year could be disappointed, with Nvidia Rubin…
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