Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'
Updated Microsoft's claim of a quantum computing breakthrough has attracted strong criticism from scientists, though the software giant says its work is sound – and it will soon reveal data that proves it.…
As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal
Elon Musk is trying yet again to get his $56 billion Tesla pay package reinstated with a fresh appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. …
Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money
Mozilla, which in 2023 received about 75 percent of its revenue from royalties paid by Google and other search providers for search engine usage in Firefox, worries that the US Justice Department's proposed ban on the very same Google Search payments would be rather harmful.…
Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users
Column My decade-old and very well-travelled 13" MacBook Pro finally died, and I hoped my new-ish M2 iPad Pro could replace it.…
Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game
Comment With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google's TPUs or Amazon's Trainium ASICs, the vast majority of AI training clusters being built today are powered by Nvidia GPUs. But while Nvidia may have won the AI training battle, the inference fight is far from decided.…
iRobot may be iDead in iYear
Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.…
DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs
Elon Musk's newly minted US Department of Government Efficiency claims to have helped the Department of Veterans Affairs end a technology contract run by service-disabled veterans.…
Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050
A group of large-scale energy users including Amazon, Meta, and Google has thrown its weight behind efforts to ramp up global nuclear capacity – aiming to triple it by 2050 – to meet increasing energy demands.…
Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs
Chinese spies have for months exploited old Juniper Networks routers, infecting the buggy gear with custom backdoors and gaining root access to the compromised devices.…
OpenInfra has only gone and joined the Linux Foundation
The votes are in, confirming that the Open Infrastructure Foundation intends to join the Linux Foundation.…
ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks
ServiceNow has for years used the example of employee onboarding to explain the power of its wares, pointing out that a lot of people around an organization are needed to get new hires on the payroll, registered with HR, equipped with a computer, and assigned appropriate permissions to access applications.…
This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network
Nick Lawler, general manager of the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), was at home one Friday when he got a call from the FBI alerting him that the public power utility's network had been compromised. The digital intruders turned out to be Volt Typhoon.…
Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return
Rocket Lab has been on a roll lately, with multiple Electron launches, plans for an ocean platform for its Neutron rocket, and a second mission for in-space manufacturing business Varda under its belt. However, NASA has apparently rejected the company's Mars Sample Return mission proposal. Why?…
UK must pay cyber pros more than its Prime Minister, top civil servant says
Senior officials in the UK's civil service understand that future cyber hires in Whitehall will need to be paid a salary higher than that of the Prime Minister if the government wants to get serious about fending off attacks.…
MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core
MariaDB says it is building a database-as-a-service based on open source principles after offloading its old DBaaS before going into private ownership.…
FTC's $25.5M scam refund treats victims to $34 each
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is distributing over $25.5 million in refunds to consumers deceived by tech support scammers, averaging about $34 per person.…
Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital
Australian company BiVACOR has revealed a patient implanted with its artificial heart survived for 100 days – and is still with us after receiving a donated organ.…
Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero-day fixes, or six critical flaws
Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday bundle has appeared, with a dirty dozen flaws competing for your urgent attention – six of them rated critical and another six already being exploited by criminals.…
Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?
COMMENT NASA could be in line for severe cuts to its science budget, with a 50 percent reduction floated by folk in the space industry. The consequences would, according to observers, be nothing less than catastrophic.…
Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices
Outlook.com users on iOS trying to access their messages via Apple Mail are still struggling more than a week after users first reported service disruption, and Microsoft still hasn't confirmed the root cause.…
