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Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless

Wed, 2026-04-15 07:27
Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work

A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.…

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The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

Wed, 2026-04-15 07:03
The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think

Opinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?…

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Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt

Wed, 2026-04-15 05:59
Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering

Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.…

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AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop: Gartner

Wed, 2026-04-15 03:00
Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away

Most mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

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Claude Code routines promise mildly clever cron jobs

Tue, 2026-04-14 22:40
Plus Anthropic has redesigned its Claude app

Anthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software.…

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Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents

Tue, 2026-04-14 20:57
The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data.

Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something goes wrong.…

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Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs

Tue, 2026-04-14 20:40
One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 more

Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday.…

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You can finally control serial devices from Firefox

Tue, 2026-04-14 20:21
Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla

Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.…

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Nvidia slaps forehead: I know what quantum is missing - it's AI!

Tue, 2026-04-14 18:58
One error in every thousand operations is one too many

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. …

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Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going

Tue, 2026-04-14 17:57
With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional

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.…

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California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says

Tue, 2026-04-14 17:25
Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files

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.…

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GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs

Tue, 2026-04-14 17:03
Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks

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

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Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math

Tue, 2026-04-14 16:06
Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting

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.…

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Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow

Tue, 2026-04-14 15:58
Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP

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. …

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No honor among thieves as 0APT threatens rival ransomware gang Krybit

Tue, 2026-04-14 12:56
Honey, the skids are fighting again

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

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More bark than bite? NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats

Tue, 2026-04-14 11:45
Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage

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.…

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IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz

Tue, 2026-04-14 11:14
Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases

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.…

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Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout

Tue, 2026-04-14 10:31
Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US

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

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Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder

Tue, 2026-04-14 09:50
20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office building

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

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Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future

Tue, 2026-04-14 09:26
Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s

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

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