Every now and then, a researcher comes up with something that sounds either wrong or unoriginal to outsiders – yet carries just enough of a chance of being correct, novel, and consequential to demand a closer look. On this occasion, the honor goes to Andrzej Odrzywołek, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics,…
Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years. The two aviation giants dominate the market for large passenger aircraft, and for most of the 2010s Boeing delivered more planes than Airbus. In early 2018, Boeing triumphantly announced it set an industry record by shipping 763…
GitHub has unveiled Stacked PRs, a new feature aimed at making large pull requests easier to review, manage, and move through the pipeline faster. Stacked PRs, now in private preview, enable a pull request to be based on a previous pull request to form a stack. Each pull request in the stack can be reviewed…
California’s proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, digital rights activists argue. Advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) say that such legislation could empower manufacturers to introduce restrictive policies affecting consumer choice. It could lead to widespread…
Bloom Energy says it has an expanded remit from Oracle to provide the energy for its US datacenter buildout plans with up to 2.8 GW of fuel cell systems. Big Red has already contracted for an initial 1.2 GW of capacity, according to Bloom, with deployment already underway this year and likely to continue into…
Most mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner. “More than 70 percent of mainframe exit projects initiated in 2026 will fail to produce the intended benefits due to an overestimation of generative AI tooling capabilities,” states a…
Quantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you’ve got a GPU hammer, every problem starts to look like an AI nail. On Tuesday, the GPU slinger unveiled its new open…
Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla’s work-in-progress channel for its browser. Web Serial allows browsers to interact with devices that communicate via serial ports, such as 3D printers, microcontrollers like Arduino…
Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April’s mega Patch Tuesday. The monthly patch party included a whopping 165 new Microsoft CVEs. And the bug under active exploitation, CVE-2026-32201, is due to improper input validation in SharePoint that allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing…
*insert Godzilla screeching sound* Here’s the very first look at the next big kaiju feature. Godzilla Minus Zero will continue the story of 2023’s Godzilla Minus One, which returned the franchise to the more grounded tone established in the original film, and while the new teaser trailer doesn’t show a whole lot, it suggests some…