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Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection from the UK after backdoor request

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A few weeks after the UK government demanded Apple to create a backdoor on users’ encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud, Apple decided to pull out Advanced Data Protection from the region.As previously reported by BGR, the UK government requested access to the company’s encryption technology…

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Alibaba will censor Apple Intelligence in China

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With a deal between Apple and Alibaba now official, Bloomberg brings more details about this partnership. The publication explains how Apple Intelligence will actually work in China compared to the rest of the world, when this platform is expected to launch, and how Apple’s other partner will handle some AI tasks.According to the report, several…

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UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple

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An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyber attack waged through political means”. The claim refers to a Home Office secret demand last month (reported by Computer Weekly here, here and here) that Apple break the security protecting its Advanced Data Protection cloud security system to let…

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Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data

5 minutes of reading / Apple, Cloud, Computer, GDPR, iCloud, iPhone, Tech / By

Over 100 cyber security experts, companies and civil society groups have signed a letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop demands for Apple to create a backdoor that would allow the UK government access to encrypted communications and data stored on Apple’s iCloud service. The letter follows disclosures this week that the Home…

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Gemini AI just got a new feature ChatGPT can’t match yet

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The smarter AI programs like ChatGPT and Gemini become, the more we’ll want to use them as the virtual assistants they can be. For that to happen, we’ll need the AIs to access information about us from all sorts of apps and remember details about us. We’ll also need to be able to trust companies…

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Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the UK competition watchdog’s proposal to take a targeted approach to levelling the playing field for smaller providers operating in the UK cloud services market.The published provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into how the UK cloud infrastructure services…

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Google Cloud revenue soars as Alphabet continues to ride AI wave

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has committed to continue investing in its cloud arm, as the firm’s fourth-quarter results confirmed Google Cloud’s revenue increased by 30% to $12bn in the three months to 31 December 2024. The year-on-year uptick in Google Cloud’s quarterly revenue was “led by growth” in the company’s core cloud infrastructure offerings, as…

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Google fumbled its big Gemini AI ad for the Big Game

5 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, Tech / By

Google is one of the top AI firms in the world, developing bleeding-edge AI under the Gemini umbrella. But Google isn’t seen as the leading AI company because OpenAI’s ChatGPT went viral before Google had anything to offer end users. Google has been playing catch-up since then. While Gemini has received tremendous upgrades in the…

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The CMA anti-trust investigation into AWS and Microsoft explained: Everything you need to know

11 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Dell, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Microsoft, Tech / By

Cloud computing has always been marketed to enterprises as a more cost-effective way for companies to access the compute resources they need, because they only pay for what they use and can easily scale back how much they are using, based on demand. Enterprises were encouraged, on the back of these benefits, to streamline their…

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AWS and Microsoft could face ‘targeted intervention’ from CMA over UK cloud competition concerns

4 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…

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