Microsoft's new mini-PC runs Windows from the cloud
Thin clients are back
Software King of the World Microsoft is set to launch a purpose-built miniature PC next year that will act as a thin client for its Windows 365 cloud service.
Apple decides to lease telly content to others
Needs to off-set heavy losses
The fruity cargo cult Apple, which has no experience in the telly business, is finding that its Apple TV+ streaming service is not doing as well as it thought.
Microsoft and Atom improve quantum computing
Cool for cats
Boffins working for Microsoft and Atom Computing have emerged from their smoke-filled shared lab claiming a significant breakthrough in their quest to develop fault-tolerant quantum computers that outperform classical systems.
Thomas Eugene Kurtz has logged off
Co-invented BASIC
Thomas Eugene Kurtz, the American mathematician and computer scientist who co-invented the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Timesharing System, has died. He was 96.
DoJ wants the Fall of Chrome
Breaking up Google’s monopoly
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has intensified its antitrust actions against Google, proposing a radical measure that would force Alphabet, Google's parent company, to sell its Chrome browser.
Nvidia’s Blackwell chips on fire
And not in a good way
Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell data centre processors have significant overheating problems when installed in high-capacity server racks.
Giving employees weekends was a mistake
Infosys Co-Founder Narayana Murthy wants people to work 70 hours
IT outsourcer Infosys’s founder Narayana Murthy thinks that 70-hour work weeks are essential for India and that allowing staff the weekend off was a mistake.
HarperCollins flogs backlist to AI company
Teaching AI how to write
Book publisher HarperCollins has partnered with an unnamed AI technology company to allow the limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models. Authors can opt into the agreement for a non-negotiable fee of $2,500.
El Capitan crowned most powerful supercomputer
When it comes to exaflops it is the floppiest
El Capitan has been ranked as the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It boasts a benchmark performance of 1.742 exaflops, or 1.742 quintillion calculations per second, far exceeding its initial target.
MSI unveils AI and HPC servers at Supercomputing 2024
The next AI wave
MSI has showcased its latest AI server based on the Nvidia MGX architecture and its DC-MHS server lineup powered by Chipzilla's Xeon 6 processors at Supercomputing 2024.