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Twitter's natural heir Bluesky finally opens its doors to the general public, after ending invite-only phase
US chipmaker AMD is to acquire startup Nod.ai for undisclosed amount, as AI competition against rival Nvidia ramps up
US intelligence agency, the CIA, is reportedly building its own AI tool to assist in its intelligence gathering activities
Competition for OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard as Meta makes its free open source AI model available on Microsoft Azure
First home grown open source operating system released by China, amid escalating trade war with the US and the West
Decentralised rival service to Twitter known as Bluesky, backed by Jack Dorsey, has now launched an Android app
Some good news for the tech sector, after Gartner predicts rise in IT spending during 2023, despite economic uncertainty
Hunting the leaker. Twitter's request to identify GitHub user who uploaded its source code has been approved by a US…
US Commerce Department and Google team up to develop open source chips that can be utilised by startups and researchers
Support and opposition to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has been mixed, so what has been the reaction of industry…
Lapsus$ strikes again? Redmond investigating claims that Brazilian-based hacking group Lapsus$ leaked 37GB of its source code
Software giants have matched hardware and mobile tech firms, in announcing withdrawal from Russia over its Ukraine invasion
Oh dear, not so private. Webkit browser engine flaw has been leaking user ID and browser data since iOS 15…
Teenager claims he has taken control of multiple Tesla vehicles around the world via a software vulnerability, and can spy…
Enterprise software giant Oracle is reportedly in talks for its largest ever purchase worth $30 billion, in order to acquire…
Vulnerability found in Apache logging library Log4j exposes popular apps, websites and online services to attack and exploitation
After a successful public debut that raised hundreds of millions of dollars, coding platform GitLab is now valued at an…
Wikimedia Foundation bans seven users in China for 'infiltration of Wikimedia systems' that has resulted in 'physical harm' of users
Google's 'vulnerability reward program' has found over 11,000 bugs and paid out $29m over past ten years, but now has…
Latest web browser from Mozilla Foundation further improves private browsing thanks to version 2 of the SmartBlock feature
US Supreme Court hands victory to Google in decade-long spat with Oracle over search giant's use of Java SE API…
Controversial social platform Parler, popular with the far right is now back online, but difficulties remain for its users
California exodus? Software giant Oracle becomes latest Silicon Valley firm to move its HQ from California and relocate it to…
Jobs losses. 250 jobs to be axed at Firefox creator Mozilla, with Coronavirus being blamed for “significant restructuring”
Nothing to hide. The NHS has released the source code of its contact-tracing app, as its trial in the Isle…
Worldwide pandemic hits software sales, as IBM warns that its customer priorities are changing and it withdraws its annual forecast
Mozilla Foundation has turned on its privacy feature called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for American users of the Firefox browser
Thunderbird is go. Thunderbird email client has this week moved to a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation
Data portability. Facebook users can now transfer their photos and videos on the social networking platform to Google Photos
Don't feed the trolls. Partnership to fight 'Patent Assertion Entities', otherwise known as patent trolls