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Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to use COBOL soon after its creation, spurring widespread adoption and making it one of the most widely used languages for … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents A good riddance with AI The weird stylus deal A terrible keyboard situation iPadOS needs some attention, too I just finished testing the new entry-level iPad, and so far, I am fairly impressed by the tablet. You can’t get a better value than this slate for $349. From the … Read more
Forward-looking: As rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, their limitations are becoming increasingly evident. Frequent recharging and environmental concerns related to lithium mining and battery disposal have prompted researchers to seek alternatives. A team led by Su-Il In, a professor at South Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, … Read more
Elon Musk says that his AI venture xAI has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. In an X post Friday, Musk said the all-stock transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter in 2022. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk wrote … Read more
Cloud computing’s rise is a success story under scrutiny. It has been nothing short of transformative, enabling businesses to scale operations, innovate rapidly, and optimise costs. It has become an essential pillar of modern enterprise IT, supporting mission-critical workloads across industries. From finance and healthcare to artificial intelligence (AI) and retail, the cloud is … Read more
Google revealed the Pixel 9a last week, but its release plans were put on hold by a mysterious “component quality issue.” Whatever that was, it’s been worked out. Google now says its new budget smartphone will arrive as soon as April 10. The date varies by market, but the wait is almost over. The first … Read more
The resulting dataset, which reflected a distribution of attack categories similar to the complete dataset, showed an attack success rate of 65 percent and 82 percent against Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.0 Pro, respectively. By comparison, attack baseline success rates were 28 percent and 43 percent. Success rates for ablation, where only effects of … Read more
Apple iPad Air (2025) review: Pro power at Air price MSRP $799.00 “The new iPad Air brings pro-level power at a more affordable price. With the M3 chip, a sharp display, and solid accessories support, it remains the go-to device for creativity and productivity.” Pros Clean design Sharp screen for creativity and productivity M3 power … Read more
Editor’s take: In Colossus: The Forbin Project, an advanced supercomputer becomes sentient and enslaves humankind. Colossus is also the name of the storage platform where almost all of Google’s internet services reside. Though we don’t know if the company took direct inspiration from the classic sci-fi movie, the connotations are still present. In a recent … Read more
Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat RLCS Fans at last year’s RLCS competition in London Conventional wisdom tells us professional athletes perform best in front of a home crowd. Great Britain’s Olympic team won a record medal haul at London 2012 and England’s Lionesses won the Euros at Wembley in 2022, 56 years after the men’s national … Read more
