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Google is making a notable concession to publishers following a ruling in the United Kingdom. The search giant will now add clearer source attributions to its AI-generated search results and give websites the option to opt out entirely. It's a meaningful shift in how the company balances its AI ambitions against the rights of the people whose content feeds them.
On the infrastructure side, Amazon Web Services has quietly reengineered how its data centers talk to each other. By replacing traditional fat-tree network designs with a quasi-random graph architecture called Resilient Network Graphs, AWS has cut its router count by sixty-nine percent, boosted throughput by thirty-three percent, and slashed network power consumption by forty percent. It's the kind of foundational engineering change that rarely makes headlines but reshapes the economics of cloud computing at massive scale.
And in government technology, the United Kingdom's tax authority HMRC has handed French consultancy Capgemini a six hundred million pound contact center contract running up to ten years. At the same time, HMRC is delaying its far larger two point four billion pound customer relationship management deal, suggesting the agency is taking a more cautious, phased approach to its digital overhaul.
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