Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.…
The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think Opinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?…
Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.…
Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away Most mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
Plus Anthropic has redesigned its Claude app Anthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software.…
The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data. Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something...
One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 more Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday.…
Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.…
One error in every thousand operations is one too many Quantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you've got a GPU hammer, every...
With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional Bloom Energy says it has an expanded remit from Oracle to provide the energy for its US datacenter buildout plans with up to 2.8 GW of fuel cell systems.…
Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files California's proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, di...
Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks GitHub has unveiled Stacked PRs, a new feature aimed at making large pull requests easier to review, manage, and move through the pipeline faster.…
Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting Every now and then, a researcher comes up with something that sounds either wrong or unoriginal to outsiders – yet carries just enough of a chance of being correct, novel, and consequential to demand a closer look.…
Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP Amazon has agreed to pay more than $11.5 billion to expand its satellite constellation by about two dozen units with the acquisition of Globalstar. But it's more about the underlying technology t...
Honey, the skids are fighting again Two rival ransomware gangs have locked horns after 0APT threatened to expose people affiliated with Krybit.…
Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage As NASA's Artemis II mission headed for the Moon, the Trump administration unveiled another attempt to cut the agency's science budget. Yet some insiders, perhaps buoyed by déjà vu and a little post-traumat...
Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases IBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don't cross a line and result in discri...
Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US Microsoft's memory squeeze has reached the shop floor, and Surface prices have been jacked up to match.…
20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office building The man accused of attacking Sam Altman's San Francisco home with a Molotov cocktail on April 10 now faces charges of attempted murder.…
Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).…