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Some 700 of Samsung Display’s engineers from South Korea have been made exempt from Vietnam’s quarantine requirements, but they will work separately from existing personnel.

Department of Defense seeks to reevaluate JEDI cloud-contract bids after Microsoft win paused

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The Pentagon is seeking to obtain revised bids from AWS and Microsoft for its winner-take-all $10 billion JEDI contract, in the latest twist in the ongoing DoD cloud makeover.

New Zealand blitzes high-end broadband affordability

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While Australia beats its Kiwi cousins at lower and mid tiers.

Optus partners with James Cook University on IoT

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The seven-year agreement will see Optus’ NB-IoT network rolled out at JCU’s innovation centres in Cairns and Townsville.

State-sponsored hackers are now using coronavirus lures to infect their targets

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Chinese, North Korean, and Russian government cyberspies caught using COVID-19-themed emails to infect victims with malware.

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You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work

David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace. [...]

Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’

The success of blockbuster hits like Project Hail Mary and Verity is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says. [...]

AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.

Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex [...]

Binance pauses withdrawals as hackers suspected of stealing billions in crypto

Some estimates say hackers stole billions in crypto from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, during a cyberattack on Thursday. [...]

Elon Musk is ‘truly a genius,’ says Vladimir Putin

Putin said that he and Musk are in "close contact" about Rassvet, Russia's Starlink-like satellite connectivity project. [...]

The director of Obsession put a new horror short on YouTube

Curry Barker, the director behind the hit horror film Obsession, just published a new horror short on YouTube. The short, titled "Mama Bear," is nearly five minutes long. The video [...]

Intel says it’s selling every affordable laptop chip it can make

During Intel's latest earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that demand for its budget-focused Wildcat Lake chips "is outstripping supply." According to CFO David Zinsner, the chips are now sold [...]

Reddit’s CEO says Google’s AI Mode ‘does not drive traffic’

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in an earnings call today that Google's AI-powered search modes do not help with traffic to the platform, echoing problems facing other websites and publishers. [...]

Patrick Stewart has died at age 86

Patrick Stewart, best known for his roles in Star Trek and X-Men, has died at age 86. A message posted to Stewart's Instagram account says the actor died in his [...]

Reddit will force everyone to log in

Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It's going to start requiring users to log in. Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account, and the site is generally [...]

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Security pros just want to be loved, report finds

Lean, mean and green: The datacentres of the future

Failings in open source disclosure put users at risk

IT Priorities 2020: Nearly two-thirds of Nordic IT leaders expect a budget increase this year

Cookie-stealing trojans found lurking on Android phones

Samsung Display engineers allowed to enter Vietnam without 14-day quarantine

Department of Defense seeks to reevaluate JEDI cloud-contract bids after Microsoft win paused

New Zealand blitzes high-end broadband affordability

Optus partners with James Cook University on IoT

State-sponsored hackers are now using coronavirus lures to infect their targets