British watchdog growls at Google’s ad practices
Hurting competition
The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) watchdog has snarled at objections regarding Google’s ad tech practices, provisionally finding that these practices are impacting competition in the UK.
Telegram is a haven for identity thieves
Place to peddle everything
The Wall Street Journal paints a grim picture of Telegram, describing it as "the premier internet platform to buy everything from hacked data and weapons to illicit drugs and child sexual abuse material, according to current and former law-enforcement officials and cybercrime researchers."
AI is not killing as many jobs as expected
Just jobs in some areas
Global customer-service behemoth has rolled out an AI translation tool that allows its representatives to converse with customers in 200 different languages. Yet, the outift is still hiring.
Microsoft wants to purge deepfakes from Bing
Teams up with StopNCII
Software King of the World Microsoft has announced a partnership with StopNCII to help remove non-consensual intimate images, including deepfakes, from its Bing search engine.
AMD launches new Zen 4 CPU
Ryzen 5 7600X3D arrives as Ryzen 5 7600X3D seems to vanish
AMD has launched the new Zen 4 CPU, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D, while the hugely popular Ryzen 7 7800X3D seems to be vanishing from the market. While the Ryzen 5 7600X3D was exclusive to Micro Center in the US, it is now coming to Mind Factory in Germany as well.
Trump wants to put Musk in charge of government efficiency
What could possibly go wrong?
Republican US presidential hopeful Donald Trump wants to put the man who stripped Twitter of 71 per cent of its value and turned it into a haven for right-wing groups to be in charge of government efficency.
OpenAI kills off its own business
More hubris than Bellerophon
OpenAI has found a way to burst its own AI bubble by killing off the developing industry with its own greed.
AT&T sues Broadcom over VMware's extended support
We saw this coming
AT&T has sued Broadcom, accusing the tech giant of refusing to honour an extended support agreement for VMware software unless AT&T buys additional, unnecessary subscriptions.
First legally binding AI treaty signed
Seems to ignore Azimov.
The United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have inked what they call the first "legally binding" international AI treaty.
Qualcomm thinking of snapping up a bit of Chipzilla
Snapdragon snaps at opportunity
Qualcomm is sniffing around Chipzilla’s design business, hoping to bolster its product portfolio with a cheeky bid.