Collaborate Disseminate
Reader dcblogs writes: China on Monday revealed its latest supercomputer, a monolithic system with 10.65 million compute cores built entirely with Chinese microprocessors. This follows a U.S. government decision last year to deny China access to Intel’… Continue reading China Builds World’s Fastest Supercomputer Without U.S. Chips
Damon Beres, writing for The Huffington Post: Major tech companies like Apple have trampled legislation that would have helped consumers and small businesses fix broken gadgets. New York state legislation that would have required manufacturers to provi… Continue reading Big Tech Squashes New York’s ‘Right To Repair’ Bill
In an interview with The Atlantic, Ev Williams, best known for co-founding Blogger, Twitter, and Medium, says the web is about money now — and not creativity. According to him, the burst of creativity has repeatedly been followed by big companies show… Continue reading Open and Rich Co-exist But Don’t Mingle So Much
Even if you pay only a fraction of your time on security news, you probably already know Mikko Hypponen (Twitter, Wikipedia). He is the Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, a security firm he joined over two decades ago. Hypponen has assisted law enforc… Continue reading Interviews: Ask Security Expert Mikko Hypponen A Question
Joshua Brustein, reporting for Bloomberg: In early March, Kickstarter quietly sent shareholders a dividend. In the wider world of business, such an action would be unremarkable. More than 80 percent of the companies in the S&P 500 pay dividends, an… Continue reading Kickstarter Just Did Something Tech Startups Never Do: It Paid a Dividend
New submitter Miche67 writes: A recent Boing Boing blog post by Damien Zammit is stirring up fears, claiming Intel’s x86 processors have a secret control mechanism that no one can audit or examine. And because of that, he says it could expose systems t… Continue reading Is the ‘Secret’ Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous?
Karl Bode, reporting for DSLReport: Time Warner Cable has confirmed that the company has suspended its “Maxx” broadband and TV upgrades while the dust settles from Charter’s $79 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. Time W… Continue reading Time Warner Cable Suspends Broadband Upgrades After Merger
Amazon acquired Kiva, a robotics company for a sum of $775 million in 2012, and started to use robots in its warehouses in late 2014. At the time, the idea was that it will make inventory management more efficient. It’s actually doing an impressive job… Continue reading Robots In Amazon’s Warehouses Are Already Making a Huge Difference
Charlie Warzel, reporting for BuzzFeed News: Unicode, the technical organization in charge of selecting and overseeing emojis, debated and ultimately decided to remove a rifle from its list of new emoji candidates in 2016, according to multiple persons… Continue reading Thanks To Apple’s Influence, You’re Not Getting A Rifle Emoji
According to a report, a robot escaped from a science lab and caused a traffic jam in one Russian city. Scientists at the Promobot laboratories in Perm had been teaching the machine how to move around independently, but it broke free after an engineer … Continue reading It’s Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom