No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon
Feature This week, a bipartisan bill was introduced that would allow supersonic flight over the continental US for the first time in 52 years, as long as they're quiet.…
To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator
Systems Approach From 2014 to 2020 I had a title of CTO at VMware, first for the networking business and then for the Asia Pacific region as a Field CTO.…
Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Accessibility matters to everyone. If you think it doesn't: it will. Apple builds in some pretty good tools, and they're getting better. Here's why it's important.…
Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away
Computer scientists from universities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom have proposed a way to provide verifiable claims about location data without surrendering privacy.…
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app
In a turn of events to warm our withered hearts, Google has offered to restore the permission that was revoked from Nextcloud's Files app for Android.…
Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig
Chinese government snoops - hiding behind the guise of fake consulting companies - are actively trying to recruit the thousands upon thousands of US federal employees who have been fired since President Trump took office.…
AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss
Interview After some teething pains, TensorWave CEO Darrick Horton is confident that AMD's Instinct accelerators are ready to take on large-scale AI training.…
America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown
Uncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans' sensitive data.…
Apple slams door on Fortnite's stateside iOS comeback
Apple has blocked Epic Games' submission of Fortnite, just as it was set to return to iOS in the US. Now it cannot be found in the US App Store nor via the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union.…
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard
Microsoft's recent round of layoffs appears to have fallen largely on software developers, including several prominent Python developers and a veteran TypeScript developer.…
CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards
Comment CoreWeave this week said it would plow between $20 and $23 billion into GPU bit barns by year's end in order to meet growing demand from model builders and hyperscalers.…
Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened
Congressional Democrats are again demanding answers from a federal agency over whether DOGE's latest tech makeover could put taxpayer data at risk.…
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
Microsoft is pulling the free MS365 Business Premium licenses granted to non-profits and replacing them with Business Basic and discounts for its other services.…
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation
If at first you don't succeed, transform, transform, and transform again is the corporate motto at Atos these days. The lumbering French-based megacorp has created another blueprint to return to its glory days, and it includes job cuts, offshoring and... AI.…
Defamation case against DEF CON terminated with prejudice
A Seattle court this week dismissed with prejudice the defamation case brought against DEF CON and its organizer Jeff Moss by former conference stalwart Christopher Hadnagy.…
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive
Science fiction author Neal Stephenson has suggested AIs should be allowed to fight other AIs, because evolution brings balance to ecosystems, but also thinks humans should stop using AI before it dumbs down our species.…
Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg
Tech buyers should purchase refurbished devices to push vendors to make hardware more repairable and help the shift to a more circular economy, according to a senior analyst at IDC.…
Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search
As search engines are intentionally made worse, and software grows ever bigger and more complex, a possibly unexpected ally emerges: the European Union.…
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago. …
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade
Microsoft is offering to make a series of concessions for up to ten years to pacify European Commission antitrust regulators. This follows protests from users that tying Teams with its biz productivity applications hinders competition.…
