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Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Nokia, alleging that the Finnish company was utilizing 12 of its cloud computing-related patents illegally. The complaint, filed Tuesday in Delaware federal court, claimed that Nokia has stolen the cliff notes of certain Amazon Web Services (AWS) custom-services to deploy with its own cloud offerings. It comes after its patent lawsuit against Amazon over video tech. Amazon wants to stop the alleged infringement and be paid for damages.

In an unexpected move, Microsoft has announced an ad-free update for Skype, now available to testers in its Insider program. While this declutters the user experience, it doesn’t bring back the popular Split View feature that many users miss. Instead, the update focuses on new AI-powered image creation, leaving some long-time users frustrated.

Excess heat from Equinix’s PA10 data center is warming the aquatic centre at Paris Games 2024. The volume of heat equivalent to 10,000 MWh is reused every year in an ecological and sustainable way – warming up the waters so that they reach people at just the right temperature. Designed for a long-lasting initiative, the PA10 project represents innovative initiatives contributing to reduce carbon emissions and advancing circular economy principles.

Hosted.com solidifies its hosting services through its continued partnership with CloudLinux to further enhance server stability, security, and performance. CEO Wayne Diamond complements CloudLinux for enabling exceptional uptime and optimized resource allocation, ensuring fast, secure web hosting. This partnership provides Hosted.com’s clients with a robust, reliable, and efficient hosting environment which is perfect for all sizes of business.

Not sure how I lived without it. 🤯

Long story short, I was just pointed out by the incredible guys at BigRedSEO that our site wasn’t loading with HTTP/2, which allows for multiple TCP requests to download at the same time. Having just enabled it, not only our WordPress install has gained significant speed, but the forum is FLYING. Everyone knows XenForo is fast, but with HTTP/2 enabled, it is so fast that I can barely even see a page refresh. This made my day.

How surprised is anyone really? 😏

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