It’s unclear whether the system is currently intact. In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350 million to build. No reason was given for the decision to shut down the Ocean Observatories…
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. A businessman with ties to Chinese military contractors was among the overseas investors who acquired stakes in SpaceX while it was still a private company. An entity linked to the Qatari royal family also took a stake. The…
We can’t blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore. Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth. University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher Ruairidh Macleod and his colleagues…
Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back. Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence that they are hitting benchmarks on time. However, there have been interesting announcements as the summer starts this year, from incremental progress…
The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet. Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense contractor, and Fortinet…
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings. Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid “abusive conduct” from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a lawsuit in the UK’s High…
The official launch takes place next week. One of the most hotly anticipated electric vehicles makes its formal debut next week. It’s the Blank Slate, a refreshingly simple pickup truck EV designed by Slate Auto, which is trying to take some of the soaring cost out of a new…
AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm. Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services. The company has been in talks with…
Google’s new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality. Good things take time, but not all things that take time are good. The jury is still out on the Google Home Speaker, but it certainly took a while to arrive. After announcing its new speaker last August,…
The bigger battery is standard and there are now simulated “E-Shifts.” Has the allure of the Porsche Taycan waned? The four-door electric sedan that thinks it’s a GT sold well for the first few years after its introduction in 2020, but sales began to slip even before the brand…
