Co-existing with AI: why replacement narratives are holding the public sector back

Why fears of replacement are preventing public services from embracing AI.

The new rules of software supply chain security: visibility, vigilance, validation

Software supply chain security is fast becoming a business-critical priority.

Risk of darkness looms across Europe and America as power-hungry AI data centers and electric cars drain the grid, decimate factory capacity, and engineer a four-year wait for transformers

Global transformer shortages, aging power grids and rising electricity demand are extending delivery times, increasing costs and delaying infrastructure expansion worldwide.

‘We have not ruled this out’: The water-based battery that could turn whole data centers into energy storage

A battery that’s half water can’t catch fire, which is why SuperDielectrics wants to bolt it to the server rack itself, absorbing AI power spikes from the one spot lithium-ion is banned from

Like photosynthesis in plants: This CPU uses solar power to ‘run computations’ without the need for batteries

Chip works just like a leaf, harvesting ambient light, sensing chemicals, and digitizing the results in one nanoscale stack requiring no battery, no charger, and no external power at all

Quote of the day by Steve Jobs: ‘The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste’ — a potshot at a bitter rival

Apple and Microsoft’s rivalry stretches back decades, with the Apple co-founder repeatedly undermining Bill Gates’ company

Like Google’s Project Loon, but for missiles: Ukraine is weaponizing stratospheric balloons to boost strike range

Ukraine’s DART leverages stratospheric balloons with a missile that goes deliberately deaf mid-fall, making Russian jammers ineffective.

Space Force has a new weapon to target enemy satellites — Meadowlands electromagnetic beam marks a ‘huge milestone’ in US capability

Electromagnetic warfare is now mobile, and Space Force has the capability to cripple enemy satellites.