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Tweet With a year left until the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into force, Microsoft has outlined a few of the tools companies can use to track and improve their compliance with the law. Read more… Neowin

Tweet After success helping people to appeal parking tickets in London and New York, a chatbot powered by Facebook Messenger called “DoNotPay” now provides refugees and asylum seekers with free legal aid. Read more… Neowin

Tweet After details emerged in November of its ‘Project Neon’ UX revisions for Windows 10, and images surfaced in January, Microsoft itself has offered a tantalizing glimpse of what’s to come. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Bradley Manning, the former U.S. army private who is being tried by a military court for leaking classified documents after spending almost three years in jail, admitted on Thursday that he gave information — including a video of an attack by U.S. forces on civilians in Iraq — to WikiLeaks. But Manning also provided some details about his leaking of documents that reinforce why having an independent quasi-media entity…

Tweet Mike Loughridge is really proud that IBM’s cloud business grew 80 percent year over year. Loughridge, IBM’s CFO, trotted out that stat repeatedly on the company’s  fourth quarter earnings call – although he never actually provided the revenue number. He also gave shout-outs to business analytics, the Smarter Planet initiative and the good old-fashioned mainframe as other bright spots on IBM’s roster. So cloud is growing great. But exactly how is…