Singtel-owned Optus taps TPG Telecom for local network sharing agreement

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Internet outage felt across East Africa
A key cable linking the region to South Africa was cut on Sunday morning, an industry expert says.
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China poses ‘genuine and increasing’ cyber risk to UK, GCHQ chief warns
Anne Keast-Butler said China has an ‘advanced set of cyber capabilities’, and also has commercial hacking outfits and data brokers at its disposal.
Reuters
Alphabet debuts beefed-up AI search and chatbot as competition heats up
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) -Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday showed how it is building on artificial intelligence across its businesses, including a beefed-up Gemini chatbot and improvements to its prized search engine as it races to compete with AI rivals. The flurry of announcements underscores Google's efforts to refresh its products since Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s 2022 launch of ChatGPT dazzled the public, threatening the incumbent's long reign over online search and AI. Among Google’s latest salvos was an addition to its family of Gemini 1.5 AI models known as Flash that is faster and cheaper to run; a prototype called Project Astra, which can talk to users about anything captured on their smartphone camera in real time; and search results categorized under AI-generated headlines.
Reuters
UPDATE 1-Amazon to invest $1.3 bln in France, create 3,000 jobs
Amazon said on Monday it would invest more than 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in its French operations and create more than 3,000 permanent jobs in the country. The French presidency had said on Sunday that Amazon and other companies, including GSK and Accenture, would announce investments worth billions as part of the country's annual "Choose France" event, which begins on Monday. Amazon Web Services' (AWS) investment would increase cloud infrastructure in the Paris area to support France's flourishing generative AI opportunity, and logistics infrastructure in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the company said in a statement.
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Internet use linked to higher wellbeing, study suggests
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, analysed data from two million people
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The Telegraph
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The Independent
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End is nigh for soggy Erik ten Hag as Man Utd sink to new levels of ineptitude
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Internet outage felt across East Africa

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