Police suspects Dutch hackers were involved in Odido breach

The Dutch National Police (Politie) says it has found "strong indications" that Dutch hackers have been involved in a ...

A Victim Was Told Their Computer Was Hacked. Deputies Say a Courier Came for $30,000

A Charlotte County man is accused of acting as a courier in a $30,000 scam that targeted a victim in Deep Creek, Florida. The ...

A Pop-Up Locked Her Computer. Three Months Later, Her $400K Retirement Was Gone

A Winnebago County, Wisconsin, woman lost more than $400,000 in retirement savings after scammers used a fake computer pop-up ...

Runs your computer while you’re at lunch: ChatGPT for work just dropped

In an example provided by OpenAI, Virgin Atlantic’s head of digital products, Nathan Bolt, used ChatGPT Work to evaluate a ...

Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits

The new startup raised $300 million co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.

A Tiny Chemical Trick Could Lead to Much More Powerful Computer Chips

A new plasma chemistry breakthrough could help manufacturers build the next generation of smaller, faster, and more powerful ...

I'm a Windows user who installed Linux for the first time - here's how the experience changed me

I'm a Windows user who installed Linux for the first time - here's how the experience changed me ...
Computer Weekly

Insurer Unum aims to deliver benefits of $20m using AI to re-write old Cobol code

Last year, Unum partnered with Amazon Web Services and Pegasystems, which provides a low-code platform to Fortune 500 companies to automate their business processes, in a project to re-engineer Unum’s ...

The Disney Movie That Should Have Been Made With AI

Few genres of film have been as much of a gamble for Disney as its live-action remakes. Criticism of the latest is so harsh ...

Computer Science Grads Have a New Dream Job — And It’s Not Working for Meta, Apple or Google

A growing number of college graduates in computer science are recentering their ambitions.
New Scientist

Does time come from the entire universe running computations?

Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist ...

A new quantum computer sets a high watermark for accuracy – are we on the verge of a big breakthrough?

The approach is known for high accuracy, but scaling it up while preserving that accuracy is technically difficult. Helios uses barium ions in what is called a quantum charge-coupled device, or QCCD, ...