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Ofcom refers UK cloud market to CMA for deeper anti-competition probe

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The UK public cloud infrastructure market will be the subject of a further anti-trust probe by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the regulator Ofcom has confirmed. The move has been under consideration since April 2023 when Ofcom released the interim findings of its September 2022 investigation into the inner workings of the UK public…

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Google CEO wants Bard tests of up to 4 hours from employees

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Google’s first demo of its ChatGPT-like service Bard cost the company $100 billion in market cap, in a very public display of incompetency from the AI product. The chatbot made an innocent mistake when providing an answer in the conversational tone of ChatGPT. One that real humans caught immediately. That error tanked the stock by…

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Microsoft: Nation-state cyber espionage on rise in 2023

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The bulk of nation-state cyber activity has pivoted away from high-volume destructive attacks towards espionage and influence operations, Microsoft stated in its latest annual Digital Defense Report. Published on 5 October 2023, the report noted that while headline-grabbing attacks from the past year were often focused on destruction or financial gain with ransomware, the data…

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Seagate Releases Game Drive PCIe 4.0 SSDs for PlayStation 5

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Western Digital’s WD_Black SN850P was the first officially PlayStation 5-licensed SSD to hit the market. Seagate wants a piece of that and has hopped on the PlayStation 5 train with the new Game Drive PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD series, officially licensed for Sony’s current-generation gaming console. Unlike Microsoft, which uses a proprietary SSD expansion card for the Xbox…

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Ofcom cloud report: What interventions could the CMA take against AWS and Microsoft?

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Ofcom’s work uncovered three types of prevailing anti-competitive behaviour and practices within the UK public cloud market, which is what prompted it to refer the sector over to the CMA for a more thorough probe.This behaviour included the charging of egress fees when customers attempt to extricate their data from a public cloud provider’s servers,…

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Microsoft responds to reports of Bing AI chatbot losing its mind

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If you have been following the debut of Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing chatbot, then you’ve seen just how much work still needs to be done. The Bing AI chatbot is impressive, but deranged, as it has been threatening, gaslighting, and outright lying to participants who have been accepted into the limited preview. Microsoft responded in a…

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