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Today IBM announced that Red Hat software is now available on IBM Power System. The company is also announcing new IBM Power Systems hardware. These announcements center around bringing Red Hat tools to IBM’s powerful servers to enable customers to better develop cloud-native applications and deploy them into high-performance hybrid cloud environments. The announcements today focus on the new IBM Power Private Cloud Rack Solution, expanded Red Hat capabilities, and extended dynamic capacity. (more…)

Microsoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle led by Australia to get Facebook and Google to pay for journalism.

Google said it would lift its ban on political advertisements on its platform imposed last month following the turmoil surrounding the violent uprising at the US Capitol.

Facebook said it will lift a contentious ban on Australian news pages "in the coming days," after the government agreed to amend a world-first media law fiercely opposed by the tech giant.

Spotify is expanding to 85 new markets in the “next few days” across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America, co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek announced at its online-only Stream On event on Monday.

The Spotify app will soon be available in Hindi. At its online-only Stream On event on Monday, Spotify announced that Hindi is part of a wave of 36 new languages coming soon to Spotify, alongside the likes of Romanian and Swahili.

Spotify is getting into the high-quality audio business with Spotify HiFi. At its online-only Stream On event on Monday, Spotify announced Spotify HiFi, a new lossless tier that will be priced at higher than the existing Spotify Premium subscription.

Spotify is jumping on the “Stories” bandwagon with Spotify Clips. At its online-only Stream On event on Monday, Spotify announced Spotify Clips — à la Snapchat and Instagram Stories — that will be available on Spotify artist pages.

Watch Dogs: Legion online release date in March 9. Here, I talk about Watch Dogs: Legion online game modes, gameplay, and what you can expect when the multiplayer update drops on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One S/X, Xbox Series S/X, Stadia, and Amazon Luna.

Sakura Samurai, a researchers’ collective, found a host of critical vulnerabilities in dozens of government-run Web services, more than half of which reportedly belonged to state governments. Check out how the issue was brought under the attention of the Indian government for remedial actions.