
The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its Azure cloud unit in China, according to affected employe…

France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken. France’s National Cybersecurity Agenc…

China wants to win the AI race on its own hardware. A new plan shows just how much it is willing to spend, and how far it will go to cut American chips out of the picture. Beijing is drafting a blueprint to spend around 2 trillion yuan ($295bn) over th…

The Prince of Wales will attend London Tech Week on Wednesday for the first time, chairing a panel on how data and technology can identify people at risk of homelessness before they lose their homes. It is the first time homelessness prevention has app…

The Nashville Zoo has launched a campaign to block a 69,000-square-foot AI data centre proposed by Georgia-based DC BLOX on a site roughly 50 yards from the zoo’s animal enclosures. A petition against the project has drawn nearly 300,000 signatures in …