Linus explains the interesting possibilities of working in open source.

Canonical's plans for a single platform that works across smartphones and desktops will not reach fruition in Ubuntu 16.10, which will continue to run the traditional Unity 7 desktop by default.

Shannon had a weakness for juggling and unicycles, but his fingerprints are on every electronic device we own. By Siobhan Roberts. (Apr. 30)

A nuclear power plant in Germany has been found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet, the station's operator said on Tuesday. The Gundremmingen plant, located about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Munich, is run by the German utility RWE. The viruses, which include "W32.Ramnit" and "Conficker", were discovered at Gundremmingen's...

Brian Krzanich: Our Strategy and The Future of Intel. Last week I shared how Intel is making broad changes to accelerate our transformation by aligning every segment of our business – our people, our places and our projects – to our strategy. Our strategy itself is about transforming Intel from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and

Approach relies on already installed code, including widely used glibc library.

Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice -- first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. (Feb.)

Sure, cybercriminals are always improving their wares, but nothing has changed about how our machines actually get infected.

In the age of the smartphone and constant mobile connectivity to the internet, USB drives might not be quite as useful as they once were, but they're still an indisputably handy way to carry your personal files around. And because of that, when people see a random USB drive just lying on the ground, it's a perplexing dilemma. Should you pick it up? Take a look at the data you find on it, and maybe try to return it to its owner? What about malware, is there a security risk?

A growing vocal minority blame poor computer generated images for 'ruining' the movies. But digital effects can co-exist with real sets and stunts - and films have always been fake.

Many features are missing, and the features it has don't work reliably.

Before there were digital computers, there were "human computers," women who used pencils and paper to do the math that helped carry the U.S. into space.

Beats dating virtualisation, but – oh – the rules

Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang announced that the company has created a new chip, the Tesla P100, with 15 billion transistors for deep-learning computing. It’s the biggest chip ever made, Huang said. Huang made the announcement during his keynote at the GPUTech conference in San Jose, California. He unveiled the chip after he said that deep-learning artificial intelligence chips have already become the company’s fastest-growing business.

Researchers with the University of Cambridge say they have the first real evidence of a new state of matter, some 40 years after it was first theorized. Known as “quantum spin liquid,” the matter states causes normally unbreakable electrons to fracture into pieces, called “Majorana fermions.” These fermions are an important discovery: Physicists believe the material is crucial to further develop quantum computing. Computers employing Majorana fermions would be able to...

Quantum computing offers financial institutions the prospect of faster transactions and lower trading costs, but is it also a threat to security?

The Go-playing program teaches itself to replicate something very much like human intuition, an advance that promises far-reaching consequences. By Michael Nielsen.

Some of today’s top techies and scientists are very publicly expressing their concerns over apocalyptic scenarios that are likely to arise as a result of machines with motives. Among the fearful are intellectual heavyweights like Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, who all believe that advances in the field of machine learning will soon yield self-aware A.I.s that seek to destroy us—or perhaps just dispose of us, much like scum getting obliterated by a windshield wiper.

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation lays out a plan to open up open-source.

Adblock's whitelisting scheme for advertisements also acceptable, Munich court says.