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Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead

SaaS biz application vendor Workday has pulled out of a new-build development in Dublin as it rethinks plans to expand EMEA HQ.…

Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates

NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away.…

Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all?

Kettle  This week a chunk of Big Tech reported its latest quarterly financial figures, and our beady eyes were on whether the ongoing AI obsession will pay off for these mega corporations.…

Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth

Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted a correction to NASA's history of STS-109, which he claims "is a lie" - although that may be a slight exaggeration.…

Stacking the deck – we've heard of it

Leaders of the world's most prominent AI companies are being recruited for the Homeland Security Department's new advisory group.…

Not even maintenance is OK in the eyes of the Uncle Sam

Under US pressure, Dutch photolithography giant ASML will no longer service certain chipmaking equipment purchased by Chinese customers.…

Nobody's favorite operating system is now available for inspection

In partnership with IBM, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0, more than 35 years since the operating system made a muted appearance ahead of Windows 3.x.…

One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad

Ouch!

Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely handed over to Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.…

Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order