Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list
The TOP500 list of Earth’s mightiest supercomputers has a new leader: the 2.198 Exaflop/s LineShine machine housed at the National […]
Month: June 2026
Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker
Anthropic is killing off its existing Claude in Slack app in favor of an always-on agentic alternative dubbed Claude Tag […]
OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions
Modern SSDs have a limited number of write cycles before they expire. Now, OpenAI is scrambling to fix a flawed […]
Mythos discovers ‘Squidbleed,’ a memory leak that’s gone undetected since Clinton era
Sometimes it takes a while to detect a vuln. A 29-year-old, Heartbleed-style vulnerability in Squid, a popular open-source caching proxy […]
O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date
Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) will switch off its 2G network starting in summer 2029, meaning that anyone still operating devices […]
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch
Rocket Lab has just completed one of the most rapid space launches ever, kicking off a complicated exercise that will […]
Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028
President Trump has ordered the development of a quantum computer to ensure that the US maintains a strategic technical advantage, […]
21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red’s big bets on AI
Oracle’s workforce shrank by 21,000 over the last year, according to the company’s annual report. In June 2025 [PDF], Big […]
Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze
Valve has opened pre-orders for its forthcoming Steam Machine – but it is going to cost you quite a lot, […]
AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime
AWS has introduced Lambda MicroVMs, built on its Firecracker virtual machine monitor, which can run isolated Linux containers with runtimes […]