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Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box

A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool

Science03 Jul 2025 | 42

Figma files for an (A)IPO with prospectus that mentions AI 150+ times

Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes

Applications01 Jul 2025 | 2

A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws

Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well

Legal01 Jul 2025 | 28

Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages

'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA

Devops27 Jun 2025 | 43

Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark

At least the BSOD acronym will still work

OSes26 Jun 2025 | 59

Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds

Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out

AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 31

Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free

Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 116

Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues

The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy

Legal24 Jun 2025 | 8

AI may be after your job, but this AI agent promises to help you get a new one

'Jobright Agent' can apply for jobs on your behalf

AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 12

American coders are most likely to use AI

Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming

AI + ML19 Jun 2025 | 38

Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam 'vishing' schemes

To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems

Research19 Jun 2025 | 38

MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek – plus it's true open source

China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms

AI + ML17 Jun 2025 | 24

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests

Feature Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel

AI + ML15 Jun 2025 | 115

Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress

DOGE moves fast and breaks things, and now our data is at risk, security guru warns in hearing

Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 52

European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan

One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger'

Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 18

Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI

All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site

AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 10

Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated

Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them

AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 28

Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims

Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation

Public Sector31 May 2025 | 13

American science put on starvation diet

National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%

Science30 May 2025 | 81

Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them

Public Sector30 May 2025 | 24

Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful

It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table

AI + ML29 May 2025 | 78

Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers

House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley

Cyber-crime29 May 2025 | 43

From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled'

He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom

Public Sector27 May 2025 | 25

Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation

We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers

On-Prem16 May 2025 | 16

NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now

Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last

Science14 May 2025 | 8

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now

CxO12 May 2025 | 46

US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties

DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom

Science09 May 2025 | 81

After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI

CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate'

CSO07 May 2025 | 14

From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear

Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz

Software06 May 2025 | 10

Liz Warren, Trump admin agree on something: Army should have right to repair

As military memo makes it official policy

Public Sector02 May 2025 | 27

AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

Keep plugging those LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine

AI + ML01 May 2025 | 39

TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech

Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do'

Personal Tech29 Apr 2025 | 51

DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI

Now that's a sum of all fears

AI + ML27 Apr 2025 | 44

Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims

WORLD WAR FEE One eight-person publisher says it'll be forced to pay $1.5M

Bootnotes26 Apr 2025 | 129

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

Updated Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less

On-Prem24 Apr 2025 | 79

IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette

Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting

Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 23

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

Going to spend more time with his Sieg Heils, maybe

Public Sector22 Apr 2025 | 110

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox

Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals

Applications22 Apr 2025 | 24

Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks

In effect: 'Ha ha – the government is borked and so are you'

Security22 Apr 2025 | 14

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices

Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

On-Prem18 Apr 2025 | 34

Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law

After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won

Personal Tech17 Apr 2025 | 4

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

AI Software Development Week12 Apr 2025 | 98

Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts

$5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled

Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47

AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast

Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 29

Trump tariffs to make prices great – a gain

World War Fee As costs for US shoppers set to rise, markets slump, orange is new red, we speak to economic experts

Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 78

Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption

The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides

PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2025 | 35

For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat

Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security

CSO03 Apr 2025 | 5

Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling

Double-oh-sh...

CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10

Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

But his emails! Sharing them with Google!

Public Sector02 Apr 2025 | 124

Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms

DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software

Software28 Mar 2025 | 22

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India

Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America

On-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 86

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?

Science25 Mar 2025 | 117

OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts

Updated Kari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari?

Networks25 Mar 2025 | 109

Ex-NSA boss: Election security focus helped dissuade increase in Russian meddling with US

Interview Plus AI in the infosec world, why CISA should know its place, and more

CSO23 Mar 2025 | 43

Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance

Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' arguments

Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 109

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings

AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 51