New smartphones and tablets sold in the European Union must have a USB-C charging port from 2024 onwards. Laptops follow in the spring of 2026. Regulators can be authorized to take products without USB-C charging ports off the market. The bill was presented by the European Commission in 2021 an... Read more
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Information is accelerating. From the top-tier information services that we use on our desktop and mobile applications every day, through the middle layers that form the interconnecting fabric of the web and the cloud… and downwards to the backend base substrate operations systems that underpin e... Read more
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Switching telecom providers is getting easier in Belgium. Petra de Sutter, the Minister of Telecommunications, recently announced new rules that help consumers change providers and receive compensation in the event of delays. The Easy Switch system has allowed Belgian consumers to switch teleco... Read more
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IBM acquired Red Hat in order to become the No. 1 hybrid cloud company. With the integration of Red Hat Ceph and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, IBM is taking the next step in this effort. This integration should ensure that a uniform storage architecture can be used from edge-to-core-to-cloud. ... Read more
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The release candidate for the 15th version of open-source relational database PostgreSQL offers more functionality for developers, including support for migrations from Oracle and SQL Server systems. Open-source database PostgreSQL grew rapidly in recent years. The technology is regularly update... Read more
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Security firm LogRhythm recently presented Axon, a cloud-based SecOps platform. The platform should give security professionals insight into cloud-based and on-premises log sources. According to LogRhythm, the solution helps security professionals solve and counter security problems and challeng... Read more
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Samsung has announced an ambitious roadmap for advanced chip manufacturing. The organization aims to step up the competition with Taiwan-based TSMC, according to the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reports that the South Korean tech giant recently announced a roadmap for highly advanced chip ... Read more
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Facebook parent Meta announced the launch of a brand-new set of free development tools for artificial intelligence apps, which help developers optimize AI apps for multiple processors. According to the company, the new open-source AI platform is built on PyTorch, an open-source machine learning ... Read more
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The UK government has confirmed that the recently introduced data reform bill is on hold. The pause allows regulators to reconsider the bill. The news comes after prime minister Liz Truss' budget announcement caused the pound to fall compared to the dollar. The paused draft legislation contains ... Read more
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The decision lets the companies off the hook for more than €200 million in fines A newly released document shows that an Italian administrative court scrapped a fine imposed by the country's antitrust authority on US tech giants Apple and Amazon for alleged collusion. The antitrust authorit... Read more
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