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Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption

Public Sector08 Apr 2026 |

Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions

Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI

Systems07 Apr 2026 | 9

Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard

Motorola and Google top PIRG's latest scorecard

Personal Tech07 Apr 2026 | 12

Uzbekistan and ZTE forge strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation

Partner Content ZTE and Ministry of Digital Technologies sign MoU at MWC 2026 to modernize telecom infrastructure and explore 6G, Wi-Fi 7/8, and satellite innovations

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OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'

Kubecon Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AI

Public Sector07 Apr 2026 | 5

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Opinion Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outside

Personal Tech07 Apr 2026 | 57

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows

Personal Tech07 Apr 2026 | 46

Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips

Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a risk

Systems07 Apr 2026 | 9

How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale

The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitable

Systems05 Apr 2026 | 8

US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

Networks02 Apr 2026 | 8

IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI

Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute

Systems02 Apr 2026 | 9

Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons

Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings

Public Sector02 Apr 2026 | 24

AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer

We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control'

Networks02 Apr 2026 | 6

Live and Let AI: Former CIA officer says human spies matter more in the LLM age

AI is eroding trust in digital communications and data, giving old-school spycraft fresh relevance for modern agents

Public Sector01 Apr 2026 | 11

Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard

Second-hand ship, seawater cooling, with operations eyed for 2027

On-Prem01 Apr 2026 | 19

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

Opinion War, oil shocks, and market nerves could yet knock the AI boom off course

AI + ML01 Apr 2026 | 24

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

We could tell you no for free

Public Sector01 Apr 2026 | 88

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Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions

Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard

Uzbekistan and ZTE forge strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation

Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds

No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships

Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis

OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips

How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale

US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI

Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons

AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer

Live and Let AI: Former CIA officer says human spies matter more in the LLM age

Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

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