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Quantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you've got a GPU hammer, every problem starts to look like an AI nail. …

Bloom Energy says it has an expanded remit from Oracle to provide the energy for its US datacenter buildout plans with up to 2.8 GW of fuel cell systems.…

California's proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, digital rights activists argue.…

GitHub has unveiled Stacked PRs, a new feature aimed at making large pull requests easier to review, manage, and move through the pipeline faster.…

Every now and then, a researcher comes up with something that sounds either wrong or unoriginal to outsiders – yet carries just enough of a chance of being correct, novel, and consequential to demand a closer look.…

Amazon has agreed to pay more than $11.5 billion to expand its satellite constellation by about two dozen units with the acquisition of Globalstar. But it's more about the underlying technology that Amazon hopes will help it catch Elon Musk's Starlink. …

Two rival ransomware gangs have locked horns after 0APT threatened to expose people affiliated with Krybit.…

As NASA's Artemis II mission headed for the Moon, the Trump administration unveiled another attempt to cut the agency's science budget. Yet some insiders, perhaps buoyed by déjà vu and a little post-traumatic resilience, are less alarmed than you might expect.…

IBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don't cross a line and result in discrimination.…

Microsoft's memory squeeze has reached the shop floor, and Surface prices have been jacked up to match.…

The man accused of attacking Sam Altman's San Francisco home with a Molotov cocktail on April 10 now faces charges of attempted murder.…

The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).…

Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will " complete the retirement" of the app on May 25.…

The UK's state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline.…

When IBM PCs set the standard for personal computing and Madonna topped the charts, Japan led the semiconductor industry. But that 1980s dominance faded as the fabless design and foundry model evolved.…

Opinion It's not the first time this has happened to me and it won't be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn't used for six months out of a drawer, then waited through three hours and four rounds of reboots for it to update Windows 11 completely.…

Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch using its locally developed H3 rocket.…

Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of the population in just three years. The number of harmful AI incidents has increased correspondingly. And both experts and laypeople believe the impact will be felt in two areas: Elections and relationships.…

Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities - one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity - according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.…

Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.…