Linux Desktop Share Tops 6% In 15 Million-System Analysis Summary Lansweeper analysed more than 15 million consumer desktop operating systems and found Linux desktop installations account for just over 6%…
Encryption Made For Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked Summary Researchers who in 2023 exposed a deliberately weakened radio-encryption algorithm have now found that an ETSI-endorsed end-to-end encryption…
Amazon’s Cloud Business Giving Federal Agencies Up To $1 Billion In Discounts Summary Amazon Web Services has struck an agreement with the U.S. General Services Administration to provide up to…
Sony Says Its Xperia Smartphones Are Still ‘Very Important’ Summary At Sony’s latest financial results presentation, CFO Lin Tao said Xperia remains ‘a very important business’ for the company. He…
The Backlash Against Duolingo Going ‘AI-First’ Didn’t Even Matter Summary Duolingo’s announcement that it would go ‘AI-first’ sparked strong social media backlash earlier in the year. Yet the company’s Q2…
China Solves ‘Tunnel Boom’ Problem With Maglev Trains Summary Researchers report a practical fix for the so-called “tunnel boom” created when very high-speed maglev trains exit tunnels. The newest Chinese…
ThinkPad Designer David Hill Spills Secrets, Designs That Never Made It Summary David W. Hill, lead designer for the ThinkPad line from 1995 to 2017, gives a wide-ranging interview to…
Intel CEO Hits Out at ‘Misinformation’ After US President Calls on Him To Resign Summary Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan has pushed back against what he calls “misinformation” about his…
OpenAI has awarded bonuses to roughly 1,000 researchers and engineers — about one-third of its workforce — with individual payouts reported to range from the low hundreds of thousands to…
OpenAI Releases GPT-5 Summary OpenAI has released GPT-5 after a two-year development cycle. CEO Sam Altman described it as a “significant leap in intelligence.” The model posts state-of-the-art results across…
