When we heard about the Netherlands’ DAWO initiative, a formal mandate to replace outside software across Dutch public institutions with a NixOS-powered platform, we asked ourselves: How could France miss out on this? Turns out, they didn’t. DINUM, the country’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs, has been running its ownContinue Reading
The deal, which is expected to close by year’s end, is worth $8.2 billion…Continue Reading
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Wednesday to two women and two women-led organizations challenging authoritarian rule, violence and discrimination against women, and the harms caused by artificial intelligence, the Stockholm-based foundation said. The recipients of the international award are a Pakistani lawyer, an Ethiopian-born AI researcher,Continue Reading
The 35,000-foot lab will first open its doors to eight quantum companies, the Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs and the Quantum New Mexico Institute. , The 35,000-foot lab will first open its doors to eight quantum companies, the Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs and the Quantum New Mexico Institute. ,Continue Reading
Cyclic Materials‘ new plant in Mesa, Arizona can process up to 25,000 metric tons of magnet-bearing end-of-life products a year, and it yields the company’s Mag-Xtract rare earth magnet material along with copper, aluminum and steel. Commercial operation has begun. MagCycle, Cyclic Materials’ process for automated mechanical separation of magnetsContinue Reading
Scania has signed a long-term agreement to supply its Core 800 battery packs to Italian snow groomer maker Prinoth, part of the High Technology Industries (HTI) Group. The packs will power two fully electric groomers: the Husky E-Motion and the Leitwolf E-Motion. The agreement turns an existing collaboration into aContinue Reading
VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are “hard to exploit in practice” but adds that not all of themContinue Reading
Meta is once again repositioning itself to target the enterprise market. This week, the company announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, which it says will evolve its AI stack into products and services that enterprises can deploy into operations, rather than just using them for advertising and social media campaigns. WhileContinue Reading
The fact that almost one-fourth of Anthropic’s revenue last year came from just two customers, and that many of its largest customers have not signed long-term contracts, could translate into a much stronger negotiating position for enterprise CIOs. According to a detailed analysis by Reuters, the company’s confidential prospectus depictedContinue Reading
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One new AI data center every month. If SpaceX achieves that MiniHard production pace, the consequences for AI capacity, revenue, and competitors are enormous. MiniHard will become SpaceX’s most important near-term product. Repeating a proven data-center design could turn individual construction projects into a steady stream of usable AI capacity. I compare it to massContinue Reading
Delta Air Lines is in the process of rolling out a fleet-wide cabin redesign, with the Boeing 757 having debuted the product in the fall of 2025, followed by the Airbus A350. This product will offer upgraded cabin seating (including memory-foam cushions), warmer brand palettes, and phase-of-flight mood lighting thatContinue Reading
For more than three decades, the Boeing 757 has been United Airlines‘ transatlantic workhorse, a narrowbody that could do what few others could: cross the ocean efficiently. From Newark to Edinburgh, Boston to Dublin, and Washington to Lisbon, the 757-200 carved out a unique niche, bridging the gap between domesticContinue Reading