UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants
The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has appointed a second tranche of program leaders and announced new program areas, suggesting confidence in its long-term funding.…
'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience
Microsoft used its 50th birthday to announce a slew of new Copilot features, many of which will be eerily familiar to anyone who's used rival AI platforms.…
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract
The UK's justice department has confirmed it is working on developing algorithms to predict which criminals will later become murderers.…
Tech hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, economic uncertainty, more collide
The hint of optimism to be found in February's tech jobs numbers? Yeah, it's pretty much gone, according to multiple analyses of the latest data out from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for March. …
Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0
Microsoft has thrown up a Windows 11 24H2 compatibility hold for devices running SenseShield Technology's sprotect.sys driver.…
Trump tariffs to make prices great – a gain
World War Fee President Donald Trump last week announced a sweeping new round of tariffs, setting the stage for price hikes across consumer tech, pro gear, and almost anything else that crosses a border.…
Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users
Microsoft has published seven tips for getting the most out of Windows 11, and the pitches for the operating system – which has failed to win hearts and minds of users – are not very compelling.…
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you
A startup backed by Sandia National Laboratories thinks it's found a cool new way to keep the world's supercomputers and datacenters cool enough to run efficiently: Zap ‘em with lasers.…
DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale
The United States Social Security Administration's internet portal has frequently gone offline in recent weeks, and presented inaccurate or incomplete information to users, perhaps because of changes steered by Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit.…
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home
A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and at their homes.…
UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec – usable in just 18 short months
The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has delivered its first GPU interconnect specification: UALink 200G 1.0.…
AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast
Interview The founder of an AI startup who attempted to use an artificially generated avatar to argue his case in court has been scolded by a judge for the stunt.…
TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – that may cost it $1B+
TSMC could end up paying $1 billion or more to settle a US investigation into whether the Taiwanese outfit busted sanctions, inadvertently or not, by indirectly manufacturing AI accelerators for Huawei.…
Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar
Boeing issued a software safety patch for the VHF radio systems used on its 787 aircraft, and the update turned out to be ineffective, Qatar Airways has complained.…
Meta debuts its first 'mixture of experts' models from the Llama 4 herd
Meta has debuted the first two models in its Llama 4 family, its first to use mixture of experts tech.…
Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank
Meta submitted a specially crafted, non-public variant of its Llama 4 AI model to an online benchmark that may have unfairly boosted its leaderboard position over rivals.…
Don't open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE
A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off.…
As CISA braces for more cuts, threat intel sharing takes a hit
Analysis Slashing staff at the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, and scrapping vital programs, isn’t exactly boosting national security, say infosec and national security officials watching America’s digital defenses unravel in real time.…
Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney
Comment There is something about Elon Musk's career trajectory that compels onlookers to hang around for the seemingly inevitable crash landing. Tesla, SpaceX, and X – formerly known as Twitter – have all become hosts to the man's galactic ego.…
Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock
World War Fee Modular laptop maker Framework is pausing sales of models it would make a loss on, while a small US keyboard biz is facing hundreds of dollars slapped on its products that American consumers will have to pay.…
