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.
D-Wave creates Advantage2 Quantum Processor
25,000 times faster than predecessor
Quantum computing outfit D-Wage has been whipping its quantum cats into shape and lifted the kimono a new 4,400-plus-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU) named Advantage2.
Intel's Battlemage GPU set for December reveal
At least that is the rumour
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that the troubled Chipmaker Intel is unveiling its Battlemage GPU next month.
ChatGPT defeats the quacks
Doctors who use it are better than those who don’t
A new study has found that quacks who used ChatGPT to diagnose illnesses were better at it than those who relied on their experience.