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Kioxia has a new high-end client SSD family. The Kioxia XG10 Series moves the M.2-based XG line to PCIe Gen5. This generation has capacities up to 4TB, and sequential performance figures of up to 14GB/s sequential reads and 12GB/s sequential writes, making for a big generational

The DapuStor R6060 is a PCIe Gen5 enterprise QLC SSD built around the company’s DP800 controller and 3D QLC NAND. The series spans U.2, E3.L, and E1.L form factors, with capacities of 15.36TB, 30.72TB, 61.44TB, and 122.88TB, plus a 245TB SKU at the top of the stack. The interface

Olympic weightlifting consists of three basic movements performed on a barbell: the snatch, the clean, and the jerk (with the latter two executed in combination). At such an elite level, athletes seek to exploit every possible advantage, including how a barbell bends and recoils

NASA announced Wednesday that it will fly the Artemis III mission in low-Earth orbit and that it continues to target 2027 for this stepping-stone flight that will help land humans on the Moon. The space agency chose the orbit close to Earth—as opposed to a higher orbit—because it

Tom's Hardware Verdict The ProMedia Lumina speakers sound good, but they'd sound better with a solid bass response. A 2.0 system will save you both money and space. Pros - + Nice-looking redesign - + Slim, convenient subwoofer - + Tiltable stands Cons - - -Thick cables with propr

Malware research group vx-underground, which says it has the largest collection of malware source code, said in a post on X that its archive of data amounts to about 30 terabytes. A reply by Bernardo Quintero, founder of VirusTotal, an online service that scans files for malware

US Space Command is inviting commercial companies to participate in a new series of classified wargames. The first exercise simulated a scenario involving a potential nuclear detonation in orbit. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the senior officer in charge of Space Command, discussed the n

The world’s first dentist was a Neanderthal, according to a recent study. 59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they were desperate enough to sit still while someone drilled into the tooth with a shar

Artificial Intelligence Build financial document processing with Pulse AI and Amazon Bedrock Financial institutions process thousands of complex documents daily. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors in financial data can propagate through interconnected calculations, affect

Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies. Musk—who filed the lawsuit alleging that Op

Artificial Intelligence Build real-time voice streaming applications with Amazon Nova Sonic and WebRTC Building end-to-end live streaming applications with real-time voice interaction presents several challenges: network bandwidth constraints can cause high latency and quality de

Fervo Energy, the geothermal energy startup, saw its market valuation surpass $10 billion in its public market debut, an increase driven by demand for AI data centers — and the energy that can power them. Fervo had raised $1.89 billion in an upsized initial public offering on Wed

Artificial Intelligence Securing AI agents: How AWS and Cisco AI Defense scale MCP and A2A deployments Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption has accelerated rapidly since its introduction in November 2024. Enterprises now manage dozens to hundreds of MCP servers—tools that extend

Artificial Intelligence Fine-tune LLM with Databricks Unity Catalog and Amazon SageMaker AI When you fine-tune large language models (LLMs) with Amazon SageMaker AI while using Databricks Unity Catalog, you might face unique challenges like how to maintain strict data governance

Hardware driver updates can be a blessing and a curse. When they’re good, they can fix bugs, improve performance, and add new capabilities, giving your PC a minor upgrade without requiring any extra effort or investment. When they’re bad, they can make a once-reliable PC slower a

X is turning itself into more of a “save-it-for-later” app with the launch of a new History tab that collects your bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles all in one place for easy access. Initially available on iOS, X head of product, Nikita Bier, describes the new resource as a

In March, Reuters reported that Amazon was developing a new smartphone. Citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter,” the publication said that Amazon was exploring using Alexa as an operating system and developing the phone, codenamed Transformer, to push people to us

Google Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms: Mid-cycle update Mike Clark Director of Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform May 2026 update: We’ve refreshed this post to reflect our mid-cycle positioning and the evolution of our platfo

Instagram announced on Wednesday that it’s globally launching “Instants,” a new feature for sharing authentic, disappearing photos after testing it with select users. The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their close friends or mutual followers that can be viewed

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is “the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.” Messages in Incognito Chat aren’t saved or stored in users’ chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, but Meta

A massive-scale X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) enables tracking structural and electron dynamics in novel systems, including fusion materials, semiconductors, batteries, and catalysis. It produces ultrashort X-ray pulses that can record the movements of atoms and electrons. The

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

Rivian’s spinoff company Mind Robotics has raised another $400 million, just two months after raising $500 million, as it works to develop industrial robotics that can further automate factory operations. The funding round, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was led by Kl

Those with an interest in the concept of AI alignment (i.e., getting AIs to stick to human-authored ethical rules) may remember when Anthropic claimed its Opus 4 model resorted to blackmail to stay online in a theoretical testing scenario last year. Now, Anthropic says it thinks

In May 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was sworn in and testified before Congress about the regulation of artificial intelligence. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana heard his ideas about licensing advanced models and asked if Altman might be qualified to run a hypothetical AI regulat

As AI begins to interact with the physical world, new types of labs are working to build world models that could be used to operate physical robotics or model objects in physical space. Unlike large language models, there isn’t an easy source of data for those models, which has l

MinIO has announced MemKV, a context memory store designed to address a growing bottleneck in large-scale AI inference environments. Positioned as the second core component of the company’s portfolio alongside AIStor, MemKV extends MinIO’s data infrastructure into the memory tier

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Scality has announced Scality Autonomous Data Infrastructure (ADI), a platform aimed at enterprises facing increasing pressure to support diverse AI workloads, strengthen cyber resilience, and maintain sovereign control over data. The offering combines Scality’s distributed objec

Anthropic is looking to court smaller companies. To that end, the company announced Wednesday the launch of Claude for Small Business, a new suite of services designed for customers who less resemble Walmart and Starbucks and more resemble the local hardware store or coffee shop.

Smart moves: Building resilient transportation systems with Google AI Kristin White Industry Executive, Google Public Sector Google AI for Public Sector Empowering an Adaptive, Responsible, Secure, and Intelligent way forward Learn moreWhat does transportation mean to you? For so

The new era of SaMD: Why cloud infrastructure is the foundation for digital health in 2026 Tamara Redondo Solutions Consultant, OCISO RK Neelakandan Software Quality and Solutions Lead, Google for Health In the healthcare and life sciences industries, speed saves lives, but meeti

How Glance turns hours of video into mobile-ready clips with AI Sharmila Devi AI Consulting Lead, Google Cloud Himanshu Aggarwal Machine Learning Engineer, Glance Every day, thousands of hours of new video content sits waiting to be discovered. Most of it lives in long-form, hori

The power of LLMs on your data, more than two orders of magnitude faster and cheaper Thibaud Hottelier Software Engineer Yannis Papakonstantinou Distinguished Engineer Databases have introduced new AI-powered SQL functions which take natural language instructions as input and are

PostgreSQL has become foundational to how modern applications are built. It powers everything from early‑stage startups to some of the most demanding production systems in the world. Its longevity isn’t accidental, it’s the result of decades of engineering discipline, community c

For decades, astronomers looking through telescopes like Hubble have been trying to catch a glimpse of the ancient epoch when the Universe’s first generation of stars ignited. But the small galaxies that were the building blocks of the cosmos we know today were too faint to spot,