‘Google’s GPT-4 competitor Gemini appears this year’
Google is secretly testing Gemini, the new AI model that should become generally available this year. The Gem...
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Google will discontinue the HTML version of Gmail by early 2024
Google will stop supporting Gmail in Basic HTML starting January 2024. As of that month, Gmail will only be o...
Mozilla: ‘Manipulation threatens browser selection screens’
The screens that allow consumers to determine their default browser choice exert great influence on the outco...
Intel guilty of antitrust practices in paying PC makers, fined 376 million euros
Intel will have to pay €376 million for antitrust practices the chipmaker proceeded with until 2006. This w...
Repair bill tackles software that shortens the life of devices
The European Parliament is making some adjustments to the earlier proposed repair law. The addition should ma...
Kaspersky: ‘Hackers increasingly active in IoT device market’
The number of attacks on IoT devices continues to increase, say Kaspersky researchers in their latest overvie...
Amazon lowers threshold to develop Alexa functionality
Amazon is giving its voice assistant Alexa a lot more functionality by integrating it with (generative) LLM m...
European Chips Act is now in force: what does it mean?
In April, the European Chips Act was finally approved. An investment of 43 billion euros should make the cont...
The days of unconstrained growth and bundling seem to be over for Big Tech
Both Google and Amazon's practices are currently under scrutiny in America. Authorities in America and Europe...
Google will continue to purchase TPU chips from Broadcom
Google will continue to purchase so-called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for running AI models from Broadcom...