The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystalcold storage tech closer to deployment in data centers
Storage14 Dec 2025 | 54
Hardware
Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill
A win for the contractors
Public Sector09 Dec 2025 | 53
Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec
Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability
Software04 Dec 2025 | 5
Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch that refuses to die, just went fully open source
Eric Migicovsky wants to ensure Pebble can’t be killed again, and DIYers benefit most
Personal Tech25 Nov 2025 | 23
Apple reportedly peels away some sales staff in small round of layoffs
Company has hitherto thought different about sackings
CxO24 Nov 2025 | 6
Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook
Vertical integration meets subscriptions
Networks19 Nov 2025 | 14
NARROWER TOPICS
Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects
Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster
Offbeat13 Nov 2025 | 34
AWS Stargate-smashing Rainier AI megacluster is up and running
Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings
AI + ML29 Oct 2025 | 8
Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system
Supercomputing Month28 Oct 2025 | 9
Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron
UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication
Science30 Sep 2025 | 6
Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers
Plaintext transmissions, fixed MAC addresses, rotating 'unique' IDs, and more, make abuse easy
Research30 Sep 2025 | 15
Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love
(Right) Hands On Ergonomic, feature-packed, and still right-handed only
Personal Tech30 Sep 2025 | 49
800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics a little more expensive
Accident causes major copper mine to suspend operations, as commodity and share prices soar
Offbeat26 Sep 2025 | 32
SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC
Secret Service seizes 300-server network allegedly tied to nation-state hackers
Cyber-crime23 Sep 2025 | 81
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say
Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing – a bit like people, really
Science16 Sep 2025 | 21
Inventor who encouraged Elon Musk to make Optimus says most humanoid robots today are 'terrifying'
interview Scott LaValley, CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, says robot makers should prioritize social acceptance over capabilities
Offbeat13 Sep 2025 | 66
Apple's 'Awe Droppings' fall close to the tree
iPhone 17 Air shows company lightening up
Personal Tech09 Sep 2025 | 72
US Army straps on another mixed-reality gamble with Anduril, Rivet
Microsoft invitation lost in mail after HoloLens made soldiers sick
Public Sector09 Sep 2025 | 2
Sky-high budget gap: FAA launches air traffic overhaul, lacks cash to finish it
Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so far
Public Sector04 Sep 2025 | 30
Kilopixel creator kills livestream switch before woodblock display hits Crysis point
All good things must come to an end
Personal Tech30 Aug 2025 | 17
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says
GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers
Systems29 Aug 2025 | 36
Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning
GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency
Edge + IoT25 Aug 2025 | 2
Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy
Latest ad for the T1 looks suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen case
Personal Tech22 Aug 2025 | 84
Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word
Digitally enabled omniscience is neat, if you can bear the cost of being constantly monitored by an AI agent
AI + ML20 Aug 2025 | 31
Lock down your critical infrastructure, CISA begs admins
The agency offered some tips for operational technology environments, where attacks are rising
Security14 Aug 2025 | 6
Robots can program each other's brains with AI, scientist shows
It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program
AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 20
Gene scanner pays $9.8 million to get feds off its back in security flap
Illumina allegedly lied about its testing devices meeting government standards
Security31 Jul 2025 | 4
Weapons jam: Pentagon sucks at removing foreign objects from its gear, auditors say
Component origin isn't tracked, says GAO, meaning the circuits in equipment could be from anywhere
Public Sector24 Jul 2025 | 20
Caught between China and Trump, Apple spends $500M on rare earth recycling
MP Materials aims to deliver US-made, recycled magnets by 2027
Personal Tech15 Jul 2025 | 17
Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer
Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun
Research14 Jul 2025 | 4
Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mine
Rare earth metals are vital to electronics, and most of them are mined in China
Public Sector11 Jul 2025 | 45
Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them
You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses!
Public Sector08 Jul 2025 | 22
So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller
Pen Test Partners hijack data from Renault Clio to steer, brake, and accelerate in SuperTuxKart
Offbeat27 Jun 2025 | 36
HPE puts all its chips in the agentic AI pot
HPE Discover 2025 Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age
AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 1
DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism'
Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses
Networks20 Jun 2025 | 40
Logitech's latest keyboard and mouse combo is wired, quiet, and suspiciously sensible
For that laptop feel without the laptop
Personal Tech18 Jun 2025 | 110
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer
Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet
Science16 Jun 2025 | 34
Japan's latest Moon landing written off as a failure after ispace probe goes dark
UPDATED Rangefinder broke during descent so lander didn't slow down
Science05 Jun 2025 | 51
Trump tariff turmoil hurting global smartphone market, but hitting US hardest
World War Fee Stale designs and market maturation aren't helping either, says Counterpoint Research
Personal Tech04 Jun 2025 | 31
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 | 22
Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cry
Banks and Warren accuse chip maker of habitual 'disregard for US national security and support for autocratic regimes'
Systems29 May 2025 | 15
Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous
Google I/O Chocolate Factory comes for Meta's Ray-Bans with Warby Parker pact
Personal Tech21 May 2025 | 36
Windows reports two CPU speeds because one would be too simple
Every hardware claim is equal, but some are more equal than others
OSes21 May 2025 | 20
Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg
Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each year
Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 59
Intel needs external foundry customers to make 14A process node pay off
Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakes
Systems14 May 2025 | 8
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again
Updated ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit
Research13 May 2025 | 5
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check
Price tag unknown
Public Sector09 May 2025 | 108
Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch'
Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper
Offbeat08 May 2025 | 13
90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control
United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts
Networks07 May 2025 | 58
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
What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight
Oh. You expected serious suggestions?
Personal Tech19 Apr 2025 | 78
The LittleGP-30: A tiny recreation of a very big deal from the 1950s
Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend
Offbeat14 Apr 2025 | 19
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you
Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027
Science09 Apr 2025 | 15
Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock
World War Fee Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great
Personal Tech08 Apr 2025 | 15
The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2
Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse?
Personal Tech27 Mar 2025 | 111
US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members
Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies
HPC26 Mar 2025 | 5
Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA
White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up
Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 72
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud
Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81
M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair
Cupertino’s latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says
Personal Tech17 Mar 2025 | 30
Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'
Updated Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon
Systems12 Mar 2025 | 65
We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves
iPhone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security
Research08 Mar 2025 | 17
Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater
Second time unlucky for Intuitive Machines, but hey, at least we got 250MB of data from it
Science07 Mar 2025 | 37
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