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Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

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Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

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If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

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New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

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Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so t...

The Iran war has been great for business

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The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

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Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default