Like most of the U.S., Western Massachusetts towns and cities have spent decades dealing with expensive, spotty, and slow broadband from private telecom monopolies like Comcast and Verizon. As a result, a lot of these towns and cities have explored building their own community owned fiber networks. Community broadband hasContinue Reading
BLETCHLEY, England (AP) — Artificial intelligence is “an unstoppable force” that is being weaponized in ways that fall just short of traditional warfare, the U.K. cyberspying chief warned Wednesday. Anne Keast-Butler, director of the communications intelligence agency GCHQ, said that Britain and its allies are in “a space between peaceContinue Reading
The Energy Department has historically used plutonium in nuclear warheads., The Energy Department has historically used plutonium in nuclear warheads., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
If you’ve been holding out for a next-gen Raspberry Pi, the wait just got a lot longer. Eben Upton joined fellow Raspberry Pi honchos, James Adams, the CTO of Hardware Engineering, and Gordon Hollingworth, the CTO of Software Engineering, for a Reddit AMA on r/engineering last week, and the PiContinue Reading
Mozilla has received plenty of flak for adding AI features to Firefox, like a chatbot in the sidebar, automatic alt text in PDFs, AI-powered tab group suggestions, and whatnot. It’s been one thing after another, and while people might appreciate that these can be disabled, the sheer pace of theContinue Reading
The Raspberry Pi 6 won’t be released before 2028 and it won’t feature an onboard NPU to handle AI compute tasks. Insight into plans for the Pi 6 were shared by three of the company’s key engineers and leaders in an AMA (ask me anything) session on Reddit on 21Continue Reading
Vision Marine Technologies has filed its 16th US patent application, covering an electronic reverse-thrust architecture for its E-Motion electric marine outboard platform. The application addresses directional control via motor reversal rather than the mechanical shifting systems used in conventional combustion outboards. Unlike a combustion engine, an electric motor can reverseContinue Reading
Nexperia and Polar Semiconductor have announced a manufacturing collaboration under which Nexperia’s next-generation power MOSFETs will be produced at Polar’s wafer foundry in Bloomington, Minnesota. The partnership aims to secure stable US-based supply capacity for Nexperia’s MOSFET portfolio across automotive, AI server infrastructure, robotics and industrial applications. Polar’s Minnesota facilityContinue Reading
Canonical has released Workshop, a new open-source tool to create reproducible development environments with a single command. Using YAML files, the same development setup can be reproduced across different hardware and devices, reducing dependency headaches and configuration drift. Environments in Workshop are built from SDKs (packages that install languages, frameworksContinue Reading
LONDON (AP) — Britain and its allies risk losing a conflict in cyberspace against adversaries such as Russia unless citizens, corporations and governments treat cybersecurity with much greater urgency, a U.K. spy chief is warning. Anne Keast-Butler, director of the communications intelligence agency GCHQ, will warn Wednesday that Moscow isContinue Reading
SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are all expected to make their stock market debut with hefty valuations,, SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are all expected to make their stock market debut with hefty valuations, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Nvidia has retired its long-running Control Panel software for GeForce users, ending more than two decades of one of PC gaming’s most recognizable utilities. Future Game Ready and Studio driver updates will now focus entirely on the newer Nvidia App, which combines driver and graphics settings…Continue Reading
Roscosmos Spacewalk 66 – YouTube Watch On Two cosmonauts will venture into the void today (May 27), and you can watch the action live. Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos , will perform a five-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today, starting at about 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415Continue Reading