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Meta comms chief handed six-year Russian prison sentence for 'justifying terrorism' Memo to Andy Stone: Don't go to Moscow for your holidays Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 26
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Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 9
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FBI and friends get two more years of warrantless FISA Section 702 snooping Senate kills reform amendments, Biden swiftly signs bill into law Public Sector22 Apr 2024 | 9
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Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide Chinese tech juggernaut eyes global expansion despite US tech restrictions OSes22 Apr 2024 | 19
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters $20m to keep the industry from having to rely on fossil fuels On-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 3
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Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 35
Copilot auto-launch bug now takes flight in multiple Windows Insider channels Clippy 2024 is something else OSes22 Apr 2024 | 11
UK data watchdog questions how private Google's Privacy Sandbox is Leaked draft report says stated goals still come up short Security22 Apr 2024 | 2
IT consultant-cum-developer in court over hiding COVID-19 loan Syzmon Jastrzebski bagged six figures, money written off as he's left the country
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Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU The processor that gave the world the ZX Spectrum and so much more is out of wafers Systems22 Apr 2024 | 81
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Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too powerful to release VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking AI + ML20 Apr 2024 | 39
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