Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EU
WEB20 hours ago · Brandon Vigliarolo. Wed 18 Sep 2024 // 21:59 UTC. Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior. Google was fined the aforementioned amount by …
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan predicts million-accelerator AI rigs
WEB11 hours ago · Thu 19 Sep 2024 // 07:30 UTC. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has predicted his hyperscale semiconductor customers will continue building AI clusters for another three to five years, with each generation of machines to double in size. Speaking to Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad Money on Tuesday, Tan was asked to explain the recent performance of Broadcom stock.
Cloud giants point the finger at each other in CMA hearings
WEB1 day ago · AWS is a member and backer of CISPE, a group of 27 cloud providers in Europe. When it comes to itself, poor AWS tells the CMA that it faces competition from on-premises IT, as we reported yesterday, saying some customers are moving from the cloud back to their own datacenters. AWS says the evidence demonstrates that "customers can …
Netherlands protests against EU dropping Microsoft AI probe
WEB6 hours ago · The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has declared it needs fresh powers after the European Commission elected not to investigate Microsoft's acquihire of AI startup Inflection. The UK's regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), itself decided the deal was too small to bother with earlier this month.
AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT
WEB2 days ago · Dan Robinson. Tue 17 Sep 2024 // 15:16 UTC. Cloud behemoth AWS says it is facing stiff competition from on-premises infrastructure, which is a turnaround from its once-proud boast that all workloads would eventually move to the cloud. In a summary of evidence given to UK watchdog, the Competition and …
Google Chrome gets a mind of its own for some security fixes
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Google has enhanced Chrome's Safety Check so that it can make some security decisions on the user's behalf. Safety Check debuted in 2020 as a way to check when passwords stored in Chrome have been compromised, to encourage browser updates, and to warn users when websites have been deemed unsafe by Google's Safe Browsing service.. It was expanded in the years since with real-time Safe Browsing ...
Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why
WEB6 days ago · The slowing economy has also deterred some businesses from making the move, according to Bryan Ma, VP of Devices Research at IDC. He told The Register via email: "Macroeconomic uncertainty has made IT decision makers hesitate, but we nonetheless expect replacement demand to drive 6 percent growth in the commercial PC market next year, up from 1 ...
The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears
WEB6 days ago · Richard Speed. Fri 13 Sep 2024 // 16:15 UTC. NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft's giant solar arrays. However, concerns persist over how well the probe's electronics will fare in the harsh Jovian environment. Each …
Healthcare giant settles patient data theft lawsuit for $65M
WEBThu 12 Sep 2024 // 02:24 UTC. A US healthcare giant will pay out $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by its own patients after ransomware crooks stole their data – including their nude photographs – and published at least some of them online. Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), one of the largest primary care groups in ...
Keeping one step ahead of cyber security threats • The Register
WEBMar 1, 2024 · Webinar Dealing with cyber security incidents is an expensive business. Each data breach costs an estimated $4.35 million on average and it's not as if the volume of cyber attacks is falling - last year, they rose by 38 percent according to Google Cloud.
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