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As we talked about a decade ago in the wake of launching The Next Platform, quantum computers – at least the fault tolerant ones being built by IBM, Google, Rigetti, and a few others – need a massive amount of traditional Von Neumann compute to help maintain their state, assist with qubit error correction, and assist with their computations. …

IBM And AMD Tag Team On Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

A CHARISTMATIC pop star made a short notice appearance in Colchester and residents have praised him for not forgetting his roots.

A CHARISTMATIC pop star made a short notice appearance in Colchester and residents have praised him for not forgetting his roots.

The Labour council leader said more families in Essex were at risk after the Bell Hotel in Epping was blocked from housing asylum seekers

Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit?

The Bun team has released version 1.2.21 of its JavaScript bundler and runtime, written in Zig, adding features including built-in drivers for MySQL and SQLite, a YAML parser, and a secrets manager for tools and local development.…

Two elementary school students, aged eight and 10, were murdered as they were sat in their pews during the Wednesday morning service at Annunciation Catholic Church.

Ryan Forey, 35, paid himself £300 a month and his wife £500 a month while he oversaw Citizen Church in Cardiff.

Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon

Nx is the latest target of a software supply chain attack in the NPM ecosystem, with multiple malicious versions being uploaded to the NPM registry on Tuesday evening.…

Over a coffee in a cafe, my husband Stephen suggested we give serious thought to swinging. At first I thought he was joking...

Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found. The Guardian: Land clearance is raising the temperature in the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia because it reduces shade, diminishes rainfall and increases the risk of fire, the authors of the paper found. Deforestation is responsible for more than a third of the warming experienced by people living in the affected regions, which is on top of the effect of global climate disruption. About 345 million people across the tropics suffered from this localised, deforestation-caused warming between 2001 and 2020. For 2.6 million of them, the additional heating added 3C to their heat exposure. In many cases, this was deadly. The researchers estimated that warming due to deforestation accounted for 28,330 annual deaths over that 20-year period.

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In a BBC documentary, the Made in Chelsea star, 37, admitted that being off-grid as the FBI attempted to track down Inigo Philbrick , 38, 'wasn't so bad after all'.

It is as if the last three years had never happened. Emma Raducanu is back at the US Open, still wearing red and still thrashing all comers.

At any moment a thick blanket of silence may prevent any further discussion of the case of Lucy Letby, if new charges are brought. In my view, the Letby debate must not be closed down.

My new husband and I had planned the perfect honeymoon. It was all I talked about with family and friends leading up to the wedding, excitedly showing them photos of the expensive resort.

No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data

Seeking to rein in healthcare fraud, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking explainable AI models that can identify patterns suggestive of malfeasance.…

He said the city has a "soft place" in his heart due to being raised down the road in Maldon

Joe Readman, a musical theatre actor based in London, first noticed a painless lump in his groin earlier this summer. Within weeks, he experienced night sweats, itchy skin and even fainted.

Don't let it happen to you

Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they'd also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…

Erling Haaland has made a name change to his shirt for the Norwegian national team ahead of his country's upcoming World Cup qualifiers.

The FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world warned Wednesday that a Chinese-government hacking campaign that previously penetrated nine U.S. telecommunications companies has expanded into other industries and regions, striking at least 200 American organizations and 80 countries. From a report: The joint advisory was issued with the close allies in the Five Eyes English-language intelligence-sharing arrangement and also agencies from Finland, Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic, an unusually broad array meant to demonstrate global resolve against what intelligence officials said is a pernicious campaign that exceeds accepted norms for snooping. "The expectation of privacy here was violated, not just in the U.S., but globally," FBI Assistant Director Brett Leatherman, who heads the bureau's cyber division, told The Washington Post in an interview. Chinese hackers won deep access to major communication carriers in the U.S. and elsewhere, then extracted call records and some law enforcement directives, which allowed them to build out a map of who was calling whom and whom the U.S. suspected of spying, Leatherman said. Prominent politicians in both major U.S. parties were among the ultimate victims.

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