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Tony Hoare, the Turing Award‑winning pioneer who created the Quicksorthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort algorithm, developed Hoare logichttps://en.wikiped...
Background Fully homomorphic encryption FHE allows computation on encrypted data without ever decrypting it. The major drawback has been performance: FHE can b...
Background Last November, Amazon sued Perplexity, demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases for users o...
Overview Silicon Valley has long competed for talent with ever‑richer pay packages built around salary, bonus, and equity. A fourth line item is now creeping i...
Overview AT&T plans to invest more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand U.S. telecom infrastructure for the AI age. The company will also hire...
OpenAI’s Shift Away from Oracle Expansion OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data‑center partnership with Oracle because newer generations...
Background In May 1986, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich wrote a utility called Enhancer for the Apple II personal computer. The utility, written in 6502 m...
Acquisition Details - Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit‑like social network designed for AI agents. Source: Axioshttps://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/m...
Overview German publishers and advertising groups are urging regulators to fine Apple over its App Tracking Transparency ATT system, arguing that it unfairly r...
Potential Sale of SUSE Private equity firm EQT AB is reportedly exploring a sale of SUSE that could value the open‑source Linux pioneer at up to $6 billion, ro...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: > This week, tens of thousands of game developers and producers will once again gather in San Francisco,...
Investigation Overview The FBI is investigating a breach affecting systems tied to wiretapping and surveillance warrant data, after abnormal logs revealed poss...
Overview A startup called Reflect Orbital wants to launch thousands of mirror‑bearing satelliteshttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/climate/space-mirror-satelli...
Introduction An anonymous reader quotes a report from Heise: Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services. This is the plan bein...
Vibe Coding for Future Galaxy Phones Samsung is exploring the idea of “vibe coding” for upcoming Galaxy devices, a feature that would let users describe app or...
Layoffs Overview Electronic Arts has laid off staff across multiple Battlefield studioshttps://www.ign.com/articles/ea-lays-off-staff-across-all-battlefield-st...
Settlement Overview Live Nation reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that avoids breaking up its dominant live‑events empire with Ticketmas...
Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: AI‑based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user's compute...
Overview Qualcomm and Arduino have unveiled the Arduino Ventuno Q, an AI‑focused single‑board computer designed for robotics and edge systems. According to the...
Overview Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense after the Trump administration labeled the company a “supply chain risk” and canceled its government cont...
Background 'If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?' That was the rhetorical question The Verge's Sean Hollister asked when he reviewedhttps://w...
Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts,...
Swiss voters overwhelmingly approvedhttps://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20260308/can6822.html a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use physical...
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News detailing a classified U.S. intelligence mission that obtained a previously unknown weapon that ma...
Overview After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the nonprofit SETI Foundation announced a new study by researchers at the SETI Institute...
Background System76 isn’t the only one criticizing new age‑verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an informal look at discussions happening across var...
Colliding black holes were first detected through spacetime ripples in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational‑Wave Observatory LIGO, notes Space.com. Si...
AI Not Considered Human in Recent Court Decisions Stephen Thaler Copyright Case On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit filed by artist...
Overview CNN reports on Automated Architecture AUAR, a company that builds “portable” micro‑factories equipped with a robotic arm to produce wooden framing pan...
Remote Robotic Surgery Milestone > “A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long-distance robotic operation,” reports the BBC, “on a patient l...
Steam on Linux Usage Statistics 'In November, Steam on Linux usage hit an all‑time high of 3.2%,' reports Phoronix. In December, it rose further to 3.58%. Janu...
Funding OpenAI’s former chief research officer is raising $70 million for a new startup that will build an AI‑driven software platform to automate manufacturin...
Overview Roughly two thirds of Node.js users are running unsupported or outdated versions, according to data from the Node.js nonprofit steward, OpenJS. Node.j...
Background When Block cut 4,000 jobs—nearly half its workforce—co‑founder Jack Dorsey “pointed to AI as the culprit,” writes Entrepreneur magazine. Dorsey clai...
Introduction Cornell University makes an announcement: Workers who love “synergizing paradigms” might be bad at their jobshttps://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
Palantir CEO’s warning Palantir’s CEO was blunt on X: > “If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white‑collar job… and you’re going to...
Background The United States has tinkered with the clock intermittently since railroads standardized time zones in 1883, and many other countries have done the...
Hyundai Ioniq 6 Discontinuation Hyundai is discontinuing its most affordable electric sedan after just three years on the market, according to USA Today. Intro...
Overview Steven Spielberg, who directed the original Jurassic Park film nearly 30 years ago, serves as executive producer on The Dinosaurs, a four‑part documen...
Background NASA announced a new studyhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea4259 documenting a historic first: “the first time a human‑made object has m...
Overview Japan has approved two groundbreaking stem‑cell therapies—one for Parkinson’s disease and another for severe heart failure. The approvals are expected...
Resignation Announcement In a tweet that has been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI’s head of robotics announced their resignation. They w...
Discovery of an Almost‑Dark Galaxy Astronomers have identified a galaxy, CDG‑2, located about 300 million light‑years from Earth that appears to be composed of...
Overview 'It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial‑intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its...
The Wall Street Journal reported that Anthropic’s most advanced artificial‑intelligence model discovered its first Firefox browser bug in about 20 minutes durin...
Overview Within 24 hours of the first US‑Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters experienced severe navigation errors, with systems mistakenly in...
Seagate Mozaic 4+ HAMR Drives Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR‑based hard drives at up to 44 TB per drive, with production deployments alread...
