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Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and in honour of this milestone, Bill Gates has published a blog post about the first code the company ever wrote. In 1975, Paul Allen and I created Microsoft because we believed in our vision of a computer on every desk and in ...
A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.
At a special 50th anniversary event on Friday, Microsoft executives reflected on the company’s storied past and on how it’s now reinventing itself for an AI-focused future. With previous CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in attendance, current CEO Satya Nadella boasted...
Google Cloud Next ’25, which runs from April 9-11 in Las Vegas is highlighting the latest advancements and future directions of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing. This year, artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with announcements of new AI-powered...
'Nonpartisan' intelligence chief booted less than two years into the job President Trump yesterday fired the head of the NSA and US Cyber Command and his deputy.…
Remember those adorable photos of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk swooning like excited schoolboys behind Trump at his inauguration? And remember when Bezos said, 'I am very optimistic that President Trump is serious about this regulatory agenda'? (Translation:...
An anonymous reader shares a report: A Microsoft employee disrupted the company's 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI. 'Shame on you,' said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. 'You are a war profiteer. Stop ...
The tech market lost 29,000 jobs in March, even as the unemployment rate for tech-related jobs slipped 0.1% to 3.1%, according to an analysis of US Labor Department data released today. At the same time, tech sector employment fell by 8,428 jobs last month, driven largely by ...
The AlphaStation 500 is a workstation from Digital, circa 1996. Mine is a 500 MHz model and has an Alpha 21164A processor (aka EV56). And the way it boots is weird. On your common-or-garden PC, there has always been some kind of ROM chip. It holds a piece of firmware known...
A successful reflight of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster would be an important milestone for its Starship program.
Panel finds plaintiffs should get a chance to prove docs not submitted too late Updated IBM may have seen off a lawsuit accusing it of using outdated mortality data to underfund retiree pensions, but an appeals court has now reopened the matter to further litigation.…
Elon Musk thinks he can modernize Social Security's 60-million-line COBOL codebase in just a few months. What could possibly go wrong? Only everything that keeps 73 million Americans' benefits flowing. As reported in Computerworld, Musk's fake 'Department of Government...
Hackers targeting Australia's major pension funds in a series of coordinated attacks have stolen savings from some members at the biggest fund, Reuters is reporting, citing a source, and compromised more than 20,000 accounts. From the report: National Cyber Security...
Nintendo just hit pause on Switch 2 pre-orders thanks to Trump's tariff tantrum. The Switch 2's $449.99 price tag was already making wallets cry. But now Trump's decided to slap a whopping 46% tariff on Vietnam (where Nintendo makes some of its hardware) and 34% on China. —...
Donald Trump ditched today's dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania because the president faced a more urgent matter — as in a golf tournament he couldn't pass up. And it makes sense, being that Trump did not even know ...
Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report Ukraine's technology industry has held up during Russia's invasion, with activity falling markedly less than other industries and increasing as a proportion of national exports since...
We are still within the sequence of energies described in Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” In this case, Apple, already badly bruised by Trump’s tariffs and their impact on its business, will now take another kicking...
On April 4, 1975, two childhood friends, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, started what is today one of the world’s leading technology companies. Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, they created Microsoft (then Micro-Soft, referring to microprocessors...
In an unprecedented move, Nintendo has pushed preorders for its highly anticipated Switch 2 to an unknown date. Why? Trump’s tariffs.
An anonymous reader shares a report: The gap between Windows 10 and Windows 11 continues to narrow, and Microsoft's flagship operating system is on track to finally surpass its predecessor by summer. The latest figures from Statcounter show the increase in Windows 11's...
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