Social media users are sharing an image of what appears to be a large polar ice cap and claiming it shows Antarctica as seen from space. A version with over 130,000 likes is viewable (here) and other versions are viewable (here) and (here). The image has prompted fellow users on social media to suggest the…
Computer server maker Super Micro Computer (SMCI) raised its guidance for June-quarter revenue and profit, pointing to expected upside from customer design wins. SMCI stock jumped on the news. X San Jose, Calif.-based Super Micro released preliminary fiscal fourth-quarter results after the market close on Wednesday. Super Micro stock jumped 15.1% to 52.45 in morning…
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Quantum computers hold the promise of revolutionising information technology by utilising the whacky physics of quantum mechanics. But playing with strange, new machinery often throws up even more interesting and novel physics. This is precisely what has happened to quantum computing researchers in the US. Reported in Nature, physicists who were shining a pulsing laser…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are warning of dire ramifications for the economy and for national security if Congress fails to pass a bill by the end of July that is designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. Their appeals have grown increasingly urgent as Senate Republicans led by…
The UEFI firmware used in several laptops made by Lenovo is vulnerable to three buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to hijack the startup routine of Windows installations. Lenovo has issued a security advisory disclosing three medium severity vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2022-1890, CVE-2022-1891, and CVE-2022-1892. The first is an issue in the ReadyBootDxe driver…
