NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency’s budget. ESA starts work on planetary defence mission, because Bruce Willis is retired READ MORE Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), the committee’s chairman, extended his congratulations to NASA, Isaacman,…
Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform. Each of the startup’s 6U systems is packed with 32 of the Blackhole accelerators we looked at last fall. The chips are interconnected in a dense Ethernet mesh by 100 Tbps of aggregate bandwidth. Combined, Tenstorrent says each Galaxy system features…
The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo was my pick for the best laptop of CES: It had two high-end screens, great specs, and the promise of being a one-of-a-kind multitasking and gaming monster. Now that this over-the-top laptop is here, I can tell you it’s as fantastic as I had hoped for. It’s also as expensive…
Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services. Landing on Google’s desk are proposed measures the Chocolate Factory may have to implement, aimed at ensuring third parties get effective access to key Android…
Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for “any lawful government purpose,” The Information reports. The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using its AI amid concerns that it would be used…
Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation. Detectives arrested the men and secured charges on Monday. They are accused of being involved in the attacks which took place between 2023 and 2025, primarily in the west Belfast…
Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). The tools had scanned 54 million lines of actual software code that DARPA had injected with artificial flaws. The teams were capable enough to…
Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft’s assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services. Artemis II astronaut: ‘I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’ READ MORE Users began complaining about access on Monday…
European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch – even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands. In March, Swedish private equity biz EQT – which spun out SUSE from US group Micro Focus in 2018…
Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase. Once upon a time, say last month, people thought nothing of jumping from one AI frontier model to another. One week, the…