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Why Microsoft Discontinued Internet Explorer After Almost 30 Years

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Koshiro K/Shutterstock Nearly three decades after the launch of Internet Explorer, or 27 years to be precise, Microsoft discontinued this classic browser to focus on Microsoft Edge. The company announced the end of Internet Explorer’s support cycle in 2021 and retired the desktop application in June 2022, with IE 11 being its last version. Internet Explorer…

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Microsoft Issues Warning To Windows 11 Users – This AI Feature Can Install Viruses

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Alex Photo Stock/Shutterstock Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft evolving from its predecessor to Windows 11, with future plans to move into an “agentic OS,” it seems there is a risk to using the new functionality. On the eve of the new features rollout that’s coming to select Windows Insiders, Microsoft has issued a warning:…

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Holiday Gift Guide 2025: The Best Tech Gifts For Every Budget

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The holiday season is here, and it’s a good time to grab some items you want to give to your friends and family. When you’re on the hunt for the perfect tech gift, it can be difficult to know what to get someone, especially when…

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Dutch voters grasp digital urgency better than their politicians

6 minutes of reading / AI, DNS, Microsoft, Tech / By

As the dust settled on a historically close-run Dutch election, a remarkable trend emerged. While party leaders were focused on traditional campaign issues, voters used their ballots to send a clear message: digital competence in parliament is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. This grassroots movement, spurred on by initiatives such as NerdVote, has…

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Interview: Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight, RAC

8 minutes of reading / AI, API, Azure, Cloud, data science, Microsoft, Tech, Technology / By

Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight at the RAC, says the key to exploiting data assets is twofold – understanding the business problem and having a great team that’s capable of finding the right technological solutions. “I need people who are empowered, keen, enthusiastic and willing to share knowledge,” he says, outlining the importance…

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Google wins multimillion-pound contract to supply sovereign cloud services to Nato

3 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, digital transformation, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Tech, Technology / By

Google Cloud has secured another multimillion-pound contract to supply a military organisation with secure sovereign cloud capabilities, several months after inking a similar deal with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The public cloud giant has agreed a deal to supply the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) with its air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) setup,…

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Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective

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But Google and Microsoft – whose investments of tens of billions of dollars building AI computing infrastructure in the region dwarfs what the Nordic countries have pledged for theirs – are the first and only tech firms to donate funding to New Nordics AI (NNAI), a centre launched in October to engineer the region’s joint…

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Testing shows Windows 11 bug brings Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU to its knees, as Assassin’s Creed Shadows frame rates can be cut in half

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Windows 11’s October update may have introduced a nasty gaming bugIt affects Nvidia GPUs, and Team Green rushed out a hotfix last weekWe didn’t realize how bad the bug was, though, and testing shows the frame rate hit can be huge – in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, it slows performance by 33% to 50%Nvidia pushed out…

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Cloudflare outage disrupts public web services

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, Cloudflare, Computer, Microsoft, social media, Tech / By

Web traffic protection specialist Cloudflare has issued an apology to its customers after an unspecified outage affecting its Access zero-trust platform downed multiple public-facing services, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, outage information aggregator DownDetector and social media platform X. The issue at Cloudflare, which is well known for its frontline cyber defensive work in blocking distributed denial…

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European Commission launches AWS and Microsoft-focused cloud competition probes

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s dominant hold on the cloud computing market is to come under renewed scrutiny, with the European Commission (EC) set to investigate the pair’s activities under the terms of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The EC has opened two separate investigations into AWS and Microsoft, which seek to ascertain if…

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