Microsoft decided to invest in OpenAI after a warning from a company official that Google had taken a big lead in the technology, Ars Technica reports.



Connectivity provider Telxius opened its extended SAm-1 submarine cable route between Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.

Homegrown smartphone brand Aspera Mobile has launched two new phones, the F50 flip phone ($99) and F48 candy bar phone ($69) as a response to the 3G network shutdown.

It was the commoditisation of the PC industry that enabled Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows operating system — terrible as it was — to get ahead. PCs built by the bigger American companies were just too expensive for the rest of the world, but the fact that one could put together a box by buying grey-market parts led to the spread of Windows. Meet the man who may be about to commoditise the laptop industry.

Content delivery network and cloud provider Akamai Technologies claims its Guardicore Platform is helping businesses meet their Zero Trust goals.

Australian non-bank lender Firstmac has suffered a ransomware attack from a new gang, EMBARGO, but has not made any public statement about the hack.

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