You'll soon be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10.

Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated this by experimentally realising a challenging circuit—the quantum Fredkin gate—for the first time.

In this episode I cover the IBM CGA graphics system from 1981.

Jennifer Null’s husband had warned her before they got married that taking his name could lead to occasional frustrations in everyday life. She knew the sort of thing to expect – his family joked about it now and again, after all. And sure enough, right after the wedding, problems began. “We moved almost immediately after we got married so it came up practically as soon as I changed my name, buying plane tickets,” she says. When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket...

An unlucky few have names that can utterly confuse computers, and it makes their life online quite the headache. Why does it happen?

UbuntuBSD aims for 'Unix for human beings'.

Deep Blue's recent trouncing of Garry Kasparov sent shock waves through the Western world. In much of the Orient, however, the news that a computer had beaten a chess champion was likely to have been met with a yawn. While there are avid chess players in Japan, China, Korea and throughout the East, far more popular is the deceptively simple game of Go, in which black and white pieces called stones are used to form intricate...

Deep Blue's recent trouncing of Garry Kasparov sent shock waves through the Western world. In much of the Orient, however, the news that a computer had beaten a chess champion was likely to have been met with a yawn. While there are avid chess players in Japan, China, Korea and throughout the East, far more popular is the deceptively simple game of Go, in which black and white pieces called stones are used to form intricate, interlocking patterns that sprawl across the board.

On Saturday, the machines won again. At a luxury hotel in downtown Seoul, South Korea, a program developed by Google defeated Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol at the ancient Chinese board game of Go. It was Lee’s third consecutive defeat, guaranteeing victory for the AlphaGo software in the five-game, million-dollar match. Lee won a moral victory the following day when he forced AlphaGo to resign in Game 4, but it was too little, too late. On Tuesday...

After 3 months of number-crunching, 8,000 computer processors working in parallel have recreated the evolution of our Universe in unprecedented detail.

Toolkit for wrangling networks released

For years, Defective by Design and the anti-DRM movement have been fighting media and proprietary software companies who want to weave Digital Restrictions Management into the HTML

Making yourself the all-powerful "Root" super-user on a computer using a buffer overflow attack. Assistant Professor Dr Mike Pound details how it's done. Botnets: Coming Soon iPhone Encryption: Coming Soon 3D Stereo Vision: Brain Scanner:

In what appears at first to be a storyline ripped from a sci-fi thriller, a multi-national research team spread across two continents, four countries, and ten years in the making have created a model of a supercomputer that runs on the same substance that living things use as an energy source.

n 1970, a Stanford artificial intelligence researcher named John McCarthy returned from a conference in Bordeaux, France, where he had presented a paper on the possibility of a “Home Information Terminal.” He predicted the terminal would be connected via the telephone network to a shared computer, which in turn would store files that would contain all books, magazines, newspapers, catalogs, airline schedules, public information and personal files.

A collection of Swartz’s writings is a record of a mind thinking, beautifully, against itself.  By Ava Kofman. (Feb. 3)

As a child, were you ever afraid that a monster lurking in your bedroom would leap out of the dark and get you? My job at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is to worry about a similar monster, hiding in the steel cabinets of the supercomputers and threatening to crash the largest computing machines on the planet. The monster is something supercomputer specialists call resilience—or rather the lack of resilience. It has bitten several supercomputers in the past.

Intelligence agencies in Germany can now use malware to track computers of people under suspicion. The Trojan will be able to track user chats and conversations on smartphones and PCs.

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes wildly. The product cycle by comparison gets relatively little attention, even though it is what actually drives the computing industry forward. We can try to understand and predict the product...

The Solus operating system and its team are taking extra security precautions in the light of the Linux Mint hack, and they are making sure that something like that will be much more unlikely to happen with their project.