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Bankrupt genetic-testing firm 23andMe agreed to sell its data bank, which once contained DNA samples from about 15 million people, to the drug developer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for $256 million.

Update 2025/07/21: Microsoft heard the complaints, and fixed the reliability added a better status page. Baby steps. Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents. Oh, you didn’t hear about it? Let’s talk about why. First…

Enrollment is plummeting at lesser-known universities, taking down the local businesses they had fostered.

Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports of natural gas.

My last few   articles on bus sniffing the IBM 5150 have been building up to this one. We're going to leverage our bus sniffer and sniffer ...

Get answers to frequently asked questions about the Capital One acquisition of Discover. Learn how this merger impacts your accounts and services.

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Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

EIB plans €70B tech boost by 2027, accelerating venture capital processes and attracting global investors to Europe.

Transformer-based large language models are relatively easy to understand. You break language down into a finite set of “tokens” (words or sub-word components…

"Dilbert" creator Scott Adams said on Monday morning that he expects to die soon from prostate cancer, the same disease that Joe Biden has

Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub!

Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI.

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Last week I participated in a panel discussion on AI as part of a private event in New Zealand.