Intel, Microsoft join DARPA effort to accelerate fully homomorphic encryption

The partnership aims to improve performance and accuracy of FHE to make it practical for business…

RIP USB: These new cables thinner than a strand of hair are 10x faster

This could be the future of USB and HDMI. Read more at Tom’s Guide…

Wait, What? MIPS Becomes RISC-V

What a long, strange trip it’s been. MIPS Technologies no longer designs MIPS processors. Instead, it’s…

OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes

Reading is believing. This AI is very susceptible to suggestions. All it needs is fake label.…

New Algorithm Breaks Speed Limit for Solving Linear Equations

By harnessing randomness, a new algorithm achieves a fundamentally novel — and faster — way of…

Why You Should Stop Using Gmail On Your iPhone

Hundreds of millions of iPhone users warned to delete Gmail app after stark new data harvesting…

Next Raspberry Pi CPU Will Have Machine Learning Built In

Better machine learning is on the horizon. Read more at Tom’s Hardware…

Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.

Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds. Read more at Popular Mechanics…

Microsoft’s Power Automate Desktop is now free for all Windows 10 users – TechCrunch

Microsoft today announced that it is making Power Automate Desktop, its enterprise-level tool for creating automated…

Facebook’s new computer vision model achieves state-of-the-art performance by learning from random images

Facebook announced an AI model trained on a billion images that it claims achieves state-of-the-art results…

AI projects yield little business value so far

Artificial intelligence has been red hot in recent years, but it is generating precious little business…

High severity Linux network security holes found, fixed | ZDNet

This nasty set of bugs can lead to an attacker gaining root access, but the patch…

Solar panels in the Sahara could damage global climate

Covering the Sahara desert in solar panels could generate plenty of clean energy, but the heat…

The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets

The future of web app development is taking shape, and it’s changing the way we think…

AI can write a passing college paper in 20 minutes | ZDNet

Natural language processing is on the cusp of changing our relationship with machines forever. Read more…

A quantum computer just solved a decades-old problem three million times faster than a classical computer | ZDNet

Using a method called quantum annealing, D-Wave’s researchers demonstrated that a quantum computational advantage could be…

Your Own 11.2 GHz Radio Telescope

Modern life has its conveniences. Often, those conveniences lead to easier hacks. A great example of…

Python programming language hurries out update to tackle remote code vulnerability | ZDNet

But don’t worry, say Python maintainers, attackers can only stall your machine even though technically it…

A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose

A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or…