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Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors

1 month 4 weeks ago
Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack

There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.…

Richard Speed

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

1 month 4 weeks ago
Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030

OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research – a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech.…

Lindsay Clark

The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC

1 month 4 weeks ago
From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower

Feature  A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy.…

Abhishek Jadhav

Announcements: We Want Your Holiday Horrors

1 month 4 weeks ago

As we enter into the latter portion of the year, folks are traveling to visit family, logging off of work in hopes that everything can look after itself for a month, and somewhere, someone, is going to make the choice "yes, I can push to prod on Christmas Eve, and it'll totally work out for me!"

Over the next few weeks, I'm hoping to get a chance to get some holiday support horrors up on the site, in keeping with the season. Whether it's the absurd challenges of providing family tech support, the last minute pushes to production, the five alarm fires caused by a pointy-haired-bosses's incompetence, we want your tales of holiday IT woe.

So hit that submit button on the side bar, and tell us who's on Santa's naughty list this year.

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Remy Porter

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

1 month 4 weeks ago
Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issues

Exclusive  Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch.…

Paul Kunert