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More than 8 in 10 Europeans do not trust US tech firms with their data
A survey across six countries puts numbers on something European governments have been acting on for a while: the assumption that American…
Technology
Gemini will now show you everything it remembers about you
The feature worth having is not the memory — it is the page that shows you the memory, and the button that deletes it.
World
Even the people who made the first GTA have not played GTA 6
Thirteen years, two delays, several leaks — and the man who co-created the series in Dundee in 1997 is waiting like everyone else. One of…
World
SpaceX called off the booster catch, and dropped it in the sea instead
The first attempt to recover both halves of Starship got halfway. The booster was sent to the sea on safety grounds — which is the system…
World
Beijing calls the spy claims baseless, and warns against using them
China’s answer has two parts: the allegations are baseless, and they must not become a reason for more chip restrictions. The second part…
World
Singapore bills a fifth of Nvidia’s sales. Under 1% of the chips land there
The Huang scandal has put a number under a long-standing question about Singapore: what exactly is being traded when the goods never arrive.
World
The Nvidia fallout has reached Trump’s cabinet
A Treasury secretary publicly blaming a commerce secretary is unusual. The specific charge is that agencies wanted Megaspeed restricted for…
Technology
What probably broke inside Microsoft, according to the people reading the symptoms
Microsoft has not published a root cause. Two analysts describe the loop that fits the symptoms, and why rejoining servers can make an…
World
Microsoft says it is ‘deeply sorry’, and names what broke
Nearly 24 hours in, Microsoft apologised and gave a cause: a change made during a network capacity upgrade. Not a cyber-attack, and not AI…
Bangladesh
The Microsoft outage hit Bangladesh too, and offices lost a working day
It began at 11:32pm Thursday and ran past lunch on Friday. For corporate offices here that run on Microsoft 365, the whole day’s work…
Technology
Twelve settings that actually extend a laptop’s battery life
Most battery advice is folklore. These are the settings that do measurable work, including the one that matters most if your laptop lives…
World
‘Since AI came’ — the artists losing the small jobs first
Not the gallery commissions — the logos and flyers that paid the rent between them. Two Berkshire artists describe which work disappeared…