Author: Hunter

On March 18th, Chetan Nayak, a physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum team, presented new data on the company’s quantum computing chip at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California. It was meant to calm a raging debate among physicists, but researchers remain skeptical of the results. “I never felt like there would be… Read more

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. That worked when everything lived in the corporate data center. But the world shifted—applications moved to the cloud, workers became mobile, and cybercriminals got more creative. Meanwhile, many IT departments are stuck in the past, clinging… Read more

Congress’ least favorite law is once against facing an existential challenge by bipartisan opponents.  Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, are planning to reintroduce a bill to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in two years. Repealing the bill, first reported by The Information,… Read more

Meta has aggressively pushed to discredit and silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, her memoir about working at the company as a policy director. Now, she’s fighting back.  Attorneys for Wynn-Williams this week filed an emergency motion seeking to dismiss the gag order that Meta won via an arbitrator. A copy of her… Read more

Today marks the end of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, a weeklong event in San Jose, California that be remembered for a long time, if not for the content of the presentations than for the sheer spectacle of the show. GTC has come a long way since Nvidia held the first show back in… Read more

Google’s Gemini app now lets you generate Audio Overviews based on Deep Research. That means you can turn the in-depth reports generated by Gemini into a conversational podcast featuring two AI “hosts.” Since launching Audio Overviews within its AI note-taking app NotebookLM last September, Google has been steadily adding to the feature by letting you… Read more

A screenshot of an animation showing the seafloor using SWOT data. | Image: <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GJ4trliE4″>NASA</a> The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space. NASA published a video this week showing a remarkably clear picture of the bottom of the ocean made possible thanks to… Read more

The emergence of agentic AI is putting fresh pressure on the infrastructure layer. If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is correct in his assumptions, demand for accelerated compute will increase by 100x as enterprises deploy AI agents based on reasoning models. Where will customers get the necessary GPUs and servers to run these inference workloads? The… Read more

Hungryroot is a shockingly innovative meal kit. Though the results can be more like fast-casual meal assembly than cooking. Read more

Apache Spark is one of the most widely used tools in the big data space. It excels at processing massive datasets for predictive modeling, fraud detection, and real-time analytics. As the demand for processing and understanding data continues to grow, enterprises are seeking more efficient ways to handle ever-increasing workloads.  Some of the largest companies… Read more