Nvidia has released a software security update for the display driver for GeForce Maxwell, Volta and Pascal series GPUs, which are no longer supported by Game Ready drivers. What’s new: This update resolves several issues that may have security implications. Supported products: GeForce 10 series GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 … Read more
The US military now believes that directed energy weapons will no longer be used experimentally, but will instead be used regularly on the battlefield in the Strait of Hormuz. Laser systems are used against drones and other aerial threats, and the U.S. Army has also committed nearly half a billion dollars to bring a new … Read more
Crystal ball: Michael Burry rose to fame as one of America’s best-known investors after profiting from the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. He no longer manages outside funds, but remains deeply pessimistic about the AI boom and warns that a bubble could do serious damage to the world’s financial fortunes. In a recent post on … Read more
NANO Nuclear Energy has agreed to acquire US nuclear fuel processing facilities, including an existing license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a deal valued at $13.5 million. The Company is purchasing the assets of Radnostix, formerly International Isotopes, and its subsidiary International Isotopes Fluorine Products. The package includes technologies for deconversion of depleted uranium … Read more
In short: It’s been just over seven months since Apple introduced the MacBook Neo, the sub-$600 laptop that sent the entire PC industry into a frenzy. Several major players in the PC space have since released countermeasures, and HP’s latest version looks pretty tempting. The new HP OmniBook 5 is described as a premium consumer … Read more
Future fusion reactors and commercial jet engines share a common challenge: their critical parts must withstand high heat and stress without cracking. Building materials tough enough for these extreme conditions typically require heavy industrial processing, such as repeated rolling or forging of hot metal. Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that heat alone … Read more
TL;DR: The Pentagon’s personnel records system was accessed for about nine months before officials discovered and fixed the security flaw, exposing personal information on more than three million people. It contained a particularly sensitive combination of data: Social Security numbers and information about the jobs of military and civilian personnel – a pairing that poses … Read more
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has conducted an underground test of chemical explosives in Nevada to study how to identify hard-to-detect nuclear explosions. The experiment took place at the Nevada National Security Site and was intended to improve the detection of low-yield explosions related to possible tests by China and … Read more
What just happened? In another move that highlights the military’s evolution toward a future where machines fight, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the creation of a new military command to expand the use of autonomous and robotic capabilities across the U.S. military. It’s called Autonomous Warfare Command or the somewhat scary AutoWarCom. Hegseth announced … Read more
Q/C Technologies, a San Francisco-based developer of optical computing systems, is working with a U.S. Department of Energy nanotechnology center to develop an optical processor that could eventually run artificial intelligence workloads using light rather than relying solely on electronic calculations. The company announced a collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) … Read more