Quantum-tunneling memory could boost AI energy efficiency by 100x (2022/05/01) Boffins get excited about building better machine synapses
AI models still racist, even with more balanced training (2022/05/01) Plus: NIST publishes 86-page report investigating algorithmic bias
Worried about being replaced by a robot? Become a physicist (2022/04/30) Scientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm
Facebook's Meta, tracking code, and the student financial aid website (2022/04/30) Also: Oculus virtual reality apps fail to detail info collection
ZX Spectrum: Q&A with some of the folks who worked on legendary PC (2022/04/30) Interview Plus: A look at some of the Centre for Computing History's most exciting machines
Elon Musk flogs $8.4bn of Tesla shares amid Twitter offer drama (2022/04/30) Plus: He reportedly wants to oust CEO, shake up site features
Data-wiper malware strains surge as Ukraine battles ongoing invasion (2022/04/30) Besides files being erased, another thing being deleted: Any sense this is a coincidence
Airbnb will let staff work from anywhere without a pay cut (2022/04/29) Will they WF-other people's-H?
Intel says costly 10nm ramp will counter PC slowdown (2022/04/29) Analysis China lockdowns, Apple's homegrown silicon, and more give x86 giant a headache – with an aspirin in reach
NASA's modified Boeing 747 SP SOFIA to be grounded for good (2022/04/29) Final flight of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be in 2022
Atlassian boasts strong Q3 revenue growth in wake of two-week outage (2022/04/29) Customer credits unlikely 'to be material to the financial statements'
Microsoft Edge's 'Secure Network' sounds a lot like a built-in VPN (2022/04/29) Only works with signed-in users, but could lure more into using the browser
Meta materials: Facebook using AI to design green concrete (2022/04/29) Claims new formula reduced carbon emissions by 40%, exceeded strength requirements
Don’t expect to get your data back from the Onyx ransomware group (2022/04/29) The cybercriminals trash files larger than 2MB, forever losing them to the void
Q1 cloud growth lifts AWS, Azure, and Google (2022/04/29) 34% jump shows smaller businesses are catching on and driving investment, says Canalys
Apple CEO: Silicon shortages and C-19 lockdowns to hurt sales by up to $8 billion (2022/04/29) That Mac you ordered? Lead times stretch to June, but Apple warns 'most products affected' over next 3 months
Problems for the Linux kernel NTFS driver as author goes silent (2022/04/29) Concerns for Paragon CEO, and head kernel boss Torvalds suggests seeking maintainers
AWS a bright spot in subdued set of Q1 results for Amazon (2022/04/29) Cloud shrugs off woes of retail parent while advertising cash also increased
Interpol: We can't arrest our way out of cybercrime (2022/04/29) Especially when gangs are better funded than local police
Meet Flamingo, Deepmind's latest open-ended AI (2022/04/29) Google says it outperforms comparable models despite needing fraction of training data