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There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.

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The Biden administration thinks it can slow China’s economic growth by cutting it off from advanced computer chips. Could the plan backfire?

Today SUSE announced its intent to do a “hard fork” of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and yesterday Oracle came out with a press release aimed squarely at Red Hat and IBM, and trying …

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A brand new version of the Thunderbird email client is out – and it's looking fire! Many of the major UI changes teased last year make their debut here in

Former Amazon manager Kayricka Wortham has been sentenced for stealing more than $9.4 million from the company.

Exploit of CVE-2023-36884 was used in targeted attacks against organizations in Europe and North America.

The hack, by a Chinese group that the company said was intent on conducting espionage, went undetected for a month.

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Intel is exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the pioneering and popular Intel NUC line of mini PCs

Dear new developer, Sometimes you have to send a difficult or awkward email. But, before you send it, think about whether it should be an email or if an in-person conversation, phone call, or video…