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Dutch voters grasp digital urgency better than their politicians

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As the dust settled on a historically close-run Dutch election, a remarkable trend emerged. While party leaders were focused on traditional campaign issues, voters used their ballots to send a clear message: digital competence in parliament is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. This grassroots movement, spurred on by initiatives such as NerdVote, has…

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Interview: Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight, RAC

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Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight at the RAC, says the key to exploiting data assets is twofold – understanding the business problem and having a great team that’s capable of finding the right technological solutions. “I need people who are empowered, keen, enthusiastic and willing to share knowledge,” he says, outlining the importance…

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Google wins multimillion-pound contract to supply sovereign cloud services to Nato

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Google Cloud has secured another multimillion-pound contract to supply a military organisation with secure sovereign cloud capabilities, several months after inking a similar deal with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The public cloud giant has agreed a deal to supply the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) with its air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) setup,…

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Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective

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But Google and Microsoft – whose investments of tens of billions of dollars building AI computing infrastructure in the region dwarfs what the Nordic countries have pledged for theirs – are the first and only tech firms to donate funding to New Nordics AI (NNAI), a centre launched in October to engineer the region’s joint…

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Nano Banana 2 AI Model Goes Viral – Here Are 10 Wild Examples

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Testing Catalog notes that Nano Banana 2 model “exhibits a new multi-step generation workflow: it spends considerable time planning the output, then generates an image, reviews it via built-in image analysis, identifies and corrects any errors, and iterates as needed before delivering the final result to the user.” This hasn’t been seen before, and can…

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Why Microsoft Discontinued Skype After Spending $8.5 Billion On It

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Bangla press/Shutterstock Skype was a revolutionary video-conferencing platform that paved the way for apps like Zoom, Google Meet, and WhatsApp. For those unaware or who don’t recall, Microsoft purchased Skype back in 2011 to the tune of $8.5 billion — the company’s largest acquisition at the time. But in May 2025, Microsoft pulled the plug on…

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Have your PC games been running slowly over the past month? Nvidia solves GPU mystery – and the culprit is Windows 11

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Nvidia GPUs have been suffering since the Windows 11 October updateThe Microsoft patch meant some PC games ran slower than expectedNvidia has deployed an emergency hotfix to resolve these issuesNvidia GPU owners who’ve been having problems with sluggishness affecting some games in the past month now have a fix for these performance woes in Windows…

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Testing shows Windows 11 bug brings Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU to its knees, as Assassin’s Creed Shadows frame rates can be cut in half

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Windows 11’s October update may have introduced a nasty gaming bugIt affects Nvidia GPUs, and Team Green rushed out a hotfix last weekWe didn’t realize how bad the bug was, though, and testing shows the frame rate hit can be huge – in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, it slows performance by 33% to 50%Nvidia pushed out…

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Can business software empower rather than control workers?

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Acclaim Autism exists to help children with autism spectrum disorder, but before doing so, the Philadelphia-based company has to get approval from US health insurers. Founder and president Jamie Turner says this typically took six months with 80% of applications initially rejected. Insurer processes vary widely: public bodies are generally easier to work with, but…

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Microsoft Discontinued One Of Its Oldest Office Apps After 35 Years

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gguy/Shutterstock Microsoft is undergoing major shifts as the tech giant looks to redesign its suite of products by adding premium features and incorporating AI in existing tools like the Paint app. The evolution has brought sweeping changes that have made Microsoft users wary of the new direction, ranging from the unfortunate demise of Skype to AI-induced price…

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