CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall has explained why the agency sensationally dumped the team behind the seL4 microkernel, saying he did not believe it was feasible to spin out the research in Australia and that it didn’t fit with the agency’s new focus on AI. The Trustworthy Systems team, which developed the extremely hard-to-hack microkernel in use around the world and who are regarded as world-leading in the field, sits within CSIRO’s digital arm Data61 but was dropped by the agency last month. They quickly received interest from a number of potential overseas buyers, before receiving a funding lifeline from the University of...

It’s now nearly four decades since the iconic Commodore 64 8-bit computer saw the light of day, and the vintage format shows no sign of dying. Enthusiasts have produced all kinds of new takes on the platform, but it’s fair to say that most of them have concentrated on the original style keyboard console form factors. A completely different take on a Commodore 64 comes from [UNI64] in the form of the Handheld 64, a complete Commodore 64 in a Game Boy style form factor that uses the original 64 chipset.

Lawsuit claims Dell misled customers on the Alienware Area 51M R1's key selling point. In a class action lawsuit filed in the US district court of Northern California, the owner of an Alienware Area 51M R1 gaming laptop alleges that Dell knowingly misled him with advertisements over the laptop's "unprecedented upgradeability."

Nvidia’s brand-new graphics card, the highly anticipated RTX 3080 Ti, went on sale Thursday, June 3. The card was meant to be a Band-Aid for the current shortage of GPUs, presenting a powerful alternative to the RTX 3080 and a good replacement for the 3090. Unfortunately, the card sold out immediately after hitting the stores, even though it had a pretty hefty price tag.

The event will focus on what’s next for Windows.

Nvidia is looking to make work and development in artificial intelligence more accessible, giving researchers an easy way to access its DGX supercomputer. The company announced that it will launch a subscription service for its DGX Superpod as an affordable way to gain entry into the world of supercomputers. The DGX SuperPod is capable of 100 petaflops of A.I. performance, according to the company, and when configured 20 DGX A100 systems, it’s designed for large-scale A.I. projects.

Thoughts about a new direction for desktop UI

Most people think of trust as active – you place your trust in someone or you don't. But weak cybersecurity, like leaving your front door unlocked, is a matter of trust, too.

The next generation of Windows will include a new UI.

Lead times for some components continue to rise as the semiconductor shortage rolls on. Expected improvement timelines vary by industry, but some now stretch into 2022.

Big Blue has now released Qiskit Runtime, which enables a significant acceleration of quantum calculations carried out over the cloud.

Every decade is the decade that tests the limits of Moore’s Law, and this decade is no different. With the arrival of Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) technology, the intricacies of multipatterning techniques developed on previous technology nodes can now be applied with the finer resolution that EUV provides. That, along with other more technical improvements, can lead to a decrease in transistor size, enabling the future of semiconductors. To that end, Today IBM is announcing it has created the world’s first 2 nanometer node chip.

Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) daily builds are now available to download for all supported flavors, for early adopters and public testers.

Philip K. Dick's iconic 1968 sci-fi novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" posed an intriguing question in its title: would an intelligent robot dream? In the 53 years since publication, artificial intelligence research has matured significantly. And yet, despite Dick being prophetic about technology in other ways, the question posed in the title is not something AI researchers are that interested in; no one is trying to invent an android that dreams of electric sheep.

The boss of networking giant Cisco has said the shortage of computer chips is set to last for most of this year. Many firms have seen production delayed because of a lack of semiconductors, triggered by the Covid pandemic and exacerbated by other factors. Cisco chief Chuck Robbins told the BBC: "We think we've got another six months to get through the short term.

Semiconductor producers are trying to increase output by changing manufacturing processes, opening spare capacity to rivals and swapping over production lines. But the small gains are unlikely to fix the shortfalls hampering production of everything from cars to home appliances to PCs.

With the emergence of the Chia cryptocurrency, miners in China are reportedly frantically snatching up every hard drive and SSD they can find. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, you don't mine Chia with a processor, graphics card or ASIC miner. Instead, you farm Chia with storage space, which is where hard drives or SSDs come in. Chia isn't officially available for trading yet, therefore, it's too early to start hoarding hard drives or SSDs.

A quantum charged coupled device – a type of trapped-ion quantum computer first proposed 20 years ago – has finally been fully realized by researchers at Honeywell in the US. Other researchers in the field believe the design, which offers notable advantages over other quantum computing platforms, could potentially enable quantum computers to scale to huge numbers of quantum bits (qubits) and fully realize their potential.

This week, big memory software company Memverge announced the release of its Memory Machine software version 1.2, which offers customers performance and capacity leveraging up to 40 cores in 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Ice Lake) and up to 6TB of memory capacity per socket with Intel Optane persistent memory 200 series.