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* Amazon has rolled out tougher DRM to the Kindle Oasis * The same update has previously landed on most other Kindle models * The company has also closed an airplane mode loophole for Libby loans If you like reading Kindle books on other devices or borrowing digital library books using Libby, Amazon
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We're aggressive shoppers but very, very disciplined buyers. An interesting behavioral characterisation from Rick McConnell, CEO of observability specialist Dynatrace, coming as it does off the back of the firm’s announcement of a $915 million takeover of Arize, an AI observability platform provider, a move he, inevitably
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Xebia, a global AI-first digital transformation and engineering partner, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep
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After eight months of export licences that moved almost nothing, Nvidia’s H200 accelerators have started arriving at Chinese technology companies. ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 of the processors in recent weeks, according to the Financial Times, with other Chinese groups expected to secure similar volumes
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Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state’s permit fast-track programme, blocks environmental review until developers have secured local approval, and bars state agencies
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Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitched as an inference machine for frontier models, and Cerebras says it runs them up to 30 times
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SK Hynix will buy back 40 trillion won of its own stock, about $28.6bn at prevailing exchange rates, in what Korean media are calling the largest repurchase ever announced by a listed company in the country. The board approved the programme on Wednesday and every share bought will be
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China’s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to the South China Morning Post. It is growing at precisely the moment Washington is drafting a letter telling 35 countries they cannot belong to
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SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, today released its 2026 State of ITSM Report, which studies how IT teams are using AI in their Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) workflows. The report, based on a survey of IT professionals around the world, surfaces
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Oracle on Tuesday announced the release of 943 new security patches as part of the August 2026 Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU), its third monthly security rollout. The company’s advisory mentions more than 1,000 unique CVEs across two dozen products, including over 460 vulnerabilities that can be exploited
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Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, has unveiled key insights into Operation ShadowRecruit, a recruitment-themed malware campaign targeting Indian government job seekers through a fake recruitment notice for Senior Field Officer positions in the Cabinet Secretariat. The campaign uses a
