US bans Chinese batteries for their war toys
Published in News


Because batteries can be hacked 

US  lawmakers have told the Defense Department to stop buying batteries from China's biggest makers.

Georgia Tech boffins claim to make the first graphene chip
Published in PC Hardware


Could be ten times faster 

Boffins at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, have made what they call the world's first working graphene-based chip.

Altman wants his own AI chip factories
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 22 January 2024 11:01

Altman wants his own AI chip factories


Working flat out to build fancy AI chips

OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants to build chip factories to come up with his new fancy AI models.

AI could be coming for CEOs
Published in AI
Monday, 22 January 2024 10:34

AI could be coming for CEOs


Robots will move their cheese

While CEOs have been using AI as an excuse to fire employees, the technology is making them into overpaid white elephants who should also go, according to a new study.

Brits zap flying targets with a lasers
Published in News
Monday, 22 January 2024 10:09

Brits zap flying targets with a lasers


Drones and missiles are toast.

The British MOD has shown off its new laser weapon that can cheaply blast expensive aerial targets out of the sky.

Ukraine hackers nick Russia's military secrets
Published in News


All your bases are belong to us

A Ukraine hacking group, linked to its top spy agency has pinched building plans for more than 500 Russian military sites, Ukraine's military spooks, the GUR, said.

Apple, Qualcomm, and AMD GPUs flawed
Published in News
Friday, 19 January 2024 11:43

Apple, Qualcomm, and AMD GPUs flawed


Hackers can steal data from the memory

Insecurity expects have found a flaw in many types of GPUs -- including Apple, Qualcomm, and AMD chips -- that could let hackers nick loads of data from the chip's memory.

Zuckerburg wants artificial general intelligence
Published in News


Anything a human can do, I can do better

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he wants to create the artificial general intelligence, or AGI. This is the ultimate goal of AI, to make machines that can think and do anything humans can.

IBM axes invention reward scheme
Published in News
Friday, 19 January 2024 11:14

IBM axes invention reward scheme


No incentive to invent stuff

The big tech company IBM has scrapped a programme that paid its inventors for patents or publications, leaving some fuming that they are losing extra cash.

Working from home made no difference to productivity
Published in News


Managers will have to live with it

A new report claims that middle managers keen to drag their staff into work to attend boring meetings might be wrong when they claim that close confinement with other miserable humans makes them more productive.