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How a Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI protein discovery, showing a near-term commercial application for the quantum tech (Isabella Ward/Wired)

Isabella Ward / Wired : How a Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI protein discovery, showing a near-term commercial application for the quantum …

OpenAI temporarily relaxes GPT-5.6 Sol usage limits - BleepingComputer

OpenAI temporarily relaxes GPT-5.6 Sol usage limits BleepingComputer…

Show HN: Clark – AI assistant with own computer

Hey folks, I've been building Clark solo, with the aim to match Manus agent (I really like it!) in features and capabilities, but also in its relentless ability to just complete ta…

Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 9…

Dell stock jumps after Trump tells Americans, ‘Go out and buy a Dell computer’

Trump's comments sent shares of the Texas-based tech giant soaring as much as 7.8% in intraday trading.…

Connections in Math: the two kinds of random

Two files of a million digits, statistically identical, and yet one compresses to three lines and the other never will. Chasing that gap splits the idea of 'compressible' into two …

Show your hands honor for the power they bring you

On designing finger-friendly interactions…

Zo Computer

Run your business and life on Zo with a cloud computer that works 24/7…

China Defies US Restrictions and Builds the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

The Chinese supercomputer LineShine was ranked as the fastest in the world, despite not using any GPUs.…

Mapping Networks: CVPR 2026 Best Paper Award Nominee

The escalating parameter counts in modern deep learning models pose a fundamental challenge to efficient training and resolution of overfitting. We address this by introducing the …

Who Plays Cheese In ‘The Bear’? Why The Computer’s Niece Looks So Familiar

Terry Cheddario is in the kitchen.…

Chinese supercomputer displaces US machines as world’s fastest for first time since 2017 - AP News

Chinese supercomputer displaces US machines as world’s fastest for first time since 2017 AP News…

The US government wants a working quantum computer by 2028 and quantum-resistant encryption by 2031

Quantum computers will supercharge the world — but they present serious national security risks

"Quantum computers are exceptionally good at breaking codes," John Preskill, Caltech's Director of the Institute for Quantum Information, told The Post.…

Super Micro Computer: It's Fun Until It Really Isn't

Super Micro Computer's capital raise triggered dilution concerns with already existing execution risks. Read why SMCI stock is a Sell.…

Saturday Citations: JAXA collaboration with toy company TOMY; a new brain-computer interface; IBD solved

This week's notable citations: Astronomers believe collapsing stars could spawn mini universes. Chimpanzees do not like unfairness. And a single dose of psilocybin temporarily rest…

A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between…

The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf]

In a first, scientists translated an entire viral genome so a quantum computer could read and analyze it

Scientists have uploaded a viral genome to a quantum computer, marking an important step for the future of quantum-enabled advancements in biology.…

Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone

There was more to it than the loss of its CEO and legal pressure from IBM…

What are MEMS – and how they change your world: from computers to speakers

The history of MEMS and their impact on computing and electronics…

Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine

'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg…

Nvidia is already planning N2X and N3X chips — the goal is the Star Trek computer

Just in case you were wondering, Nvidia's RTX Spark isn't supposed to be a one-off. The company is not just flirting with becoming the fifth high-profile vendor of consumer laptop …

California tech CEO arrested after feds say he supplied sanctioned computer equipment to Iran

A California tech CEO is facing 20 years in prison after allegedly earning millions by selling U.S.-origin computer networking equipment to Iran’s military and nuclear establishmen…

TIL that the first Apple computer in schools was hand-delivered by Steve Wozniak, is still with the computer education center he gave it to, and barely worked at all.

Super Micro Computer Sinks 9%, Gorilla Technology Tumbles 20% Despite $2 Billion India AI Infrastructure Deal

A new AI-powered computer worm could prove to be the stuff of cybersecurity nightmares

University of Toronto researchers built a worm powered by open-weight AI that adapts to its targets. Experts say it changes the math on cybersecurity defense…

These are the 7 best mini PC deals I've found in GMKtec 7th anniversary sale — save big on some of our highest rated and reviewed compact desktops

GMKtec mini PCs are heavily discounted right now — but the sale to celebrate the company's 7th anniversary ends soon.…

NVIDIA Research Unlocks Advanced Grasping, Smarter Autonomous Driving and Agent Training at Scale

New NVIDIA Research breakthroughs show how training at scale — across gripper types, driving scenarios and virtual worlds — creates AI that generalizes to diverse applications.…

IBM is pledging more than $10 billion to build fault-tolerant quantum computers by 2029

Which path is better, conversion MSc in Computer Science in Dublin but no optional internship included in the program. Or another conversion master in Computer Science but in Manchester, UK with an optional internship included in the program(labeled as placement).

Price pressures in building PCs 'aren't going away anytime soon' warns AMD exec — but new budget CPU could be in the works

'We know the pressures that are there in building systems aren't going away anytime soon': AMD exec hints at possible relief with new budget Ryzen CPU.…

Everyone Is Talking About Quantum Computers, But Post-Quantum Cybersecurity May Be the Real Investment Opportunity

MacBook Neo Disrupts a PC Market in Decline, IDC Says

The global memory shortage that has already squeezed Mac mini and Mac Studio supply is now set to weigh heavily on the broader PC market, with IDC forecasting an 11.3% decline in g…

Europol and international law enforcement agencies dismantle nine organized crime groups and arrest 29 in a crackdown on illegal streaming, removing 27K URLs (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

The Classical Advances Needed to Make Quantum Computers Tick

Nvidia and others are developing new software, hardware, and AI to enable quantum…

Fuzzy Text Search in PostgreSQL: How Trigrams Make Computers "Almost Right"

A deep dive into one of the most clever tricks in database engineering - explained so simply, your...…

Topaz AI confirmed bug that can wipe host computer

We’ve seen a number of support tickets related to file path errors, missing models, and project issues that trace back to folders being moved from their default locations. To help …

French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is developing silicon-based quantum computers, raised a €115M Series A led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ, and STMicro (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu : French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is developing silicon-based quantum computers, raised a €115M Series A led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ, and S…

ELI5: what qualifies as 'supercomputer' and how good are those compared to generic server/PC?

Frustrated: why can’t a cluster actually behave like one big computer? What’s the closest practical solution?

Frustrated: why can’t a cluster actually behave like one big computer? What’s the closest practical solution?

AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms

A computer worm is malware that spreads on a network by replicating itself from one machine to another. Traditional worms, like WannaCry, exploited predetermined vulnerabilities, a…

Computer Use Agents Go Local: A Deep Technical Dive into On-Device GUI Automation, Quantized Inference & Holo3.1

Meta Description: Learn how to build production-grade local computer use agents using Holo3.1's...…

Ask HN: How do people secure their Linux computer?

Sony's summer State of Play showcase was big on God of War, Wolverine, gore and GTA-dodging release dates

Everything you need to know from the latest showcase…

ToolGate: Token-Efficient Pre-Call Control for Tool-Augmented Vision-Language Agents

Tool-augmented vision-language agents can acquire external perceptual evidence through OCR, detection, segmentation, and other tools, but executing every proposed tool call is cost…

MedCUA-Bench: A Screenshot-Only Benchmark for Clinical Computer-Use Agents

Computer-use agents could automate repetitive screen-based clinical work, but their reliability in medical graphical user interfaces remains largely unvalidated. Existing benchmark…

Effect of Demographic Bias on Skin Lesion Classification

In this study, we evaluate the performance of skin lesion classification using ResNet-based convolutional models, focusing on the impact of demographic bias in training data, parti…

Towards Non-Monotonic Entailment in Propositional Defeasible Standpoint Logic

Recent work in defeasible reasoning has seen notions of preferential semantics and entailment in the style of Kraus et al. applied to modal logics. However, work in this field has …

University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times : University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each com…

Scientists find way to supercharge dangerous computer ‘worms’ with AI

The worm is capable of targeting any known flaw in the world’s computers and spreading mayhem. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.…

Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers.…

Storage breakthrough promises safe data recovery even after hackers infect your computer

A storage-based cybersecurity system extends deleted data recovery to 126 days with minimal impact on drive speed.…

Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted : Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital — UK c…

Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexity Computer split tasks between on-device AI models and server-based models (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexity Computer split tasks between on-device AI models and server-based models — Perplexity has announced a major…

Nvidia bets on AI personal computers with new ‘superchip’ powering Windows laptops - AP News

Nvidia bets on AI personal computers with new ‘superchip’ powering Windows laptops AP News…

Nvidia Has a Plan to Put Its Chips in Personal Computers

The world’s most valuable company is chasing Intel and Apple as it tries to bring A.I. agents to laptops and desktops.…

This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark

Once upon a time, Microsoft had to write off $900 million betting an Arm-based Nvidia chip could power its first flagship Windows portable, the original Microsoft Surface. But toda…

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

In 1982, as we mentioned at length with our history of the DEC Professional , Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep their PDP-11 m...…