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Microsoft is working with Nvidia on nuclear power. Not to build it, but to offer AI-driven tools to deal with all the red tape, help with the design work, and optimize operations for nuclear projects.…

Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?

Opinion  NASA's Ignition presentation was heavy on space hardware, but light on details. Not least of which was how astronauts are supposed to get from Earth to its moonbase and back.…

Bye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areas

Dev tooling biz JetBrains has previewed Central for agentic AI software development but will retire the Code With Me human pair programming feature.…

Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades

Dell's upcoming 2026 commercial laptops won't leave recent buyers kicking themselves - but they do bring meaningful upgrades, including a thinner Pro 7, larger batteries, and improved thermals.…

I'll just clear up that up, shall I?

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared another nugget of Windows lore – what Windows 95 did when installers stomped on its system files.…

Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra has once again scored a middling 5/10 from iFixit, suggesting that while the company knows how to build a repairable phone, it still won't quite follow through.…

A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code

Opinion  Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, they've made billions from this code. You'd think they could support the code's creators and maintainers. It would be only fair, right?…

BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown

Could Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is… kind of.…

NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently

NASA's ambitious plans to build a space station in orbit of the Moon are officially on hold, administrator Jared Isaacman said Tuesday, with the space agency instead skipping the orbital habitat in favor of building a permanent base on the Lunar surface. …

AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it?

The UK's Ministry of Defence is looking for a new Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) to take responsibility for a budget of £140.7 million ($188 million) and 400 staff.…

Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google

End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…

Apple Business combines corporate device management offerings and a way to buy ads

Apple has simplified its business services by combining and rebranding them, and is giving away the reformulated enterprise offering for free.…

Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare

Alibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set.…

Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trapped

Half of VMware users plan to reduce their use of the virtualization pioneer’s products by 2028, according to a survey by independent analyst firm Virtified.…

Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles

Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company’s annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.…

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government

interview  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy

RSAC 2026  Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.…

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects

RSAC 2026  Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…

They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus

An undergraduate chemistry researcher has developed a nail polish formulation that will let people use their nails to tap away on touch screens.…

Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline

Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…