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- by Dan RobinsonPlus one actual physicist Donald Trump has named the first members of his President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), largely comprising Trump allies in the tech industry and one actual scientist.…
- by Simon SharwoodAWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape? OpenAI on Wednesday announced the death of its controversial Sora video creation tool, just two days after publishing a guide on how to use it well.…
- by Liam ProvenIn other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers Firefox 149 is here, and although we've already talked about one of the big new features on the way, the release version has some others that will be very welcome.…
- by Dan RobinsonEffort includes permitting and planning Microsoft is working with Nvidia on nuclear power. Not to build it, but to offer AI-driven tools to deal with all the red tape, help with the design work, and optimize operations for nuclear projects.…
- by Richard SpeedExactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase? Opinion NASA's Ignition presentation was heavy on space hardware, but light on details. Not least of which was how astronauts are supposed to get from Earth to its moonbase and back.…
- by Tim AndersonBye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areas Dev tooling biz JetBrains has previewed Central for agentic AI software development but will retire the Code With Me human pair programming feature.…
- by Avram PiltchPro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades Dell's upcoming 2026 commercial laptops won't leave recent buyers kicking themselves – but they do bring meaningful upgrades, including a thinner Pro 7, larger batteries, and improved thermals.…
- by Richard SpeedI'll just clear up that up, shall I? Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared another nugget of Windows lore – what Windows 95 did when installers stomped on its system files.…
- by SA MathiesonInsiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation The UK's tax collection agency has awarded Amazon Web Services – the only remaining bidder – a contract worth nearly £500 million to migrate services from three Fujitsu-run datacenters and host them for up to a decade.…
- by Carly PageFlagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra has once again scored a middling 5/10 from iFixit, suggesting that while the company knows how to build a repairable phone, it still won't quite follow through.…
- by Steven J. Vaughan-NicholsA handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code Opinion Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, they've made billions from this code. You'd think they could support the code's creators and maintainers. It would be only fair, right?…
- by Richard SpeedBASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown Could Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is… kind of.…
- by Lindsay ClarkAI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it? The UK's Ministry of Defence is looking for a new Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) to take responsibility for a budget of £140.7 million ($188 million) and 400 staff.…
- by Simon SharwoodOmnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…
- by Thomas ClaburnApple Business combines corporate device management offerings and a way to buy ads Apple has simplified its business services by combining and rebranding them, and is giving away the reformulated enterprise offering for free.…
- by Simon SharwoodClaims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare Alibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set.…
- by Avram PiltchHP IQ can chat, share files, and break down everything people said in the conference room. You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart. Also, get ready for your boss to start recording in-person meetings.…
- by Tobias MannBreaking free of its IP licensing shackles Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company’s annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.…
- by Thomas ClaburnCyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…
- by Jessica LyonsCrims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…