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The consumer watchdog fears Google’s access to additional user data could hurt future competition.

Seek reveals Australian IT job market sluggish as others recover from easing COVID-19 rules

IT job ads changed by only 1% month on month for May 2020.

Google CEO Pichai commits to lasting, meaningful change

Pichai promised to make Google’s products more inclusive, announced an overhaul of internal leadership, and a $175 million package to support Black business owners, startup founders, job seekers, and developers.

Microsoft to resume in July delivery of optional Windows 10 cumulative updates

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The optional cumulative ‘C’ and ‘D’ week Windows 10 updates, which Microsoft paused in March, are coming back with new names and in new ways.

The one skill that every virtual organization needs

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Instead of relegating the success or failure of your customer events, brainstorming sessions, and team meetings to chance, invest in the one superstar every organization operating virtually needs now: A skilled moderator.

Over half of employees frustrated by remote tech issues during COVID-19 lockdown

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How has working from home impacted your efficiency ? From traffic to child care and even employment itself, there is now a lot to consider — especially if you are new to this way of working.

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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns. [...]

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips. [...]

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk. [...]

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak. [...]

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture. [...]

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue [...]

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using [...]

All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new [...]

Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards

If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel [...]

Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the [...]

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Coronavirus: Cyber security spend to slow in 2020

Oracle full-year results: 1% revenue decline as Covid-19 bites

Coronavirus: 50% of security pros had no pandemic contingency plan

Select committee chair demands sharper teeth for review of Post Office IT scandal

ACCC raises competition concerns about Google’s acquisition of Fitbit

Seek reveals Australian IT job market sluggish as others recover from easing COVID-19 rules

Google CEO Pichai commits to lasting, meaningful change

Microsoft to resume in July delivery of optional Windows 10 cumulative updates

The one skill that every virtual organization needs

Over half of employees frustrated by remote tech issues during COVID-19 lockdown