UK to dismantle DSIT and shift digital government remit to DCMS
The two-year-old science and tech department will be broken up, moving public-sector digital work and tech industry policy into se...
By Renata Fuchs 2 months agoPolicy Reporter
Renata Fuchs
Renata reports on the rules that shape the industry: antitrust, privacy, AI regulation, and the lobbying around all three.
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LG monitor app draws complaints over silent Windows 11 installs
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By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
OVH used Sydney region to pilot mass reboots for KVM Januscape fix
OVH says it rebooted tens of thousands of hosts to patch Januscape, accepting some customer downtime rather than leaving KVM infra...
By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
EU fines AliExpress €550 million over illegal goods controls
The European Commission says Alibaba’s consumer marketplace failed to meet Digital Services Act duties on illegal and counterfeit...
By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
Alibaba’s Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus leads speech benchmark by two Elo points
Artificial Analysis ranks Alibaba’s latest TTS model first for provider voices, though its benchmark lead is narrow and its output...
By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
Accelsius says two-phase cooling can cut AI data center energy costs
The startup claims its coolant can support hotter facility water loops, but OEM support and larger CDUs remain open issues.
By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
Valve and Collabora build Arm64 Arch port for Steam Frame
The Holo Core work targets Valve’s Arm-based VR headset and could move Arch Linux beyond its official x86-64-only package base.
By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
Viking 1 marks 50 years since NASA’s first Mars landing
NASA’s Viking 1 reached Chryse Planitia on July 20, 1976, then operated for years before a command error ended contact in 1982.
By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
WordPress forces updates after chained bugs trigger RCE attacks
Two patched WordPress flaws are being exploited together, with researchers reporting credential theft, backdoor admin accounts and...
By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
AT&T must keep offering basic phone service in California for now
A federal judge denied AT&T’s bid to pause California carrier-of-last-resort rules while its lawsuit against the state proceeds.
By Renata Fuchs 2 months ago
AWS Route 53 suspension takes client sites and email offline
Digital Takumi’s AWS account was restored after an expired card, missed alerts and MFA gaps knocked client domains and linked Goog...
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Researchers outline GPU workload attack that could stress power grids
Zhejiang University researchers say malicious cloud tenants could use GPU jobs to destabilize data centers and connected electrica...
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