NASA’s 1977 computers aboard Voyager are still working in interstellar space

Resurfaced footage released by YouTuber Gary Friedman shows some of the sturdy computing hardware that powered Voyager 1 and ...

America 250: From quill pens to AI, how the US records its history

How the U.S. government went from quill pens and typewriters to computers, cloud systems and artificial intelligence to ...
Ars Technica

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...
Wired

Use Microsoft PC Manager to Speed Up Your Windows 11 Computer

Can you really get a Windows PC running like new again? Using this free tool from Microsoft, you can get pretty close. Microsoft Windows has been with us for more than 40 years at this point. Over ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
The Verge

Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns your spare Mac into an AI agent

The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a Mac. The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a ...
The New York Times

Tell Us: How Are You Using A.I. for the Tasks of Daily Life?

We want to hear how artificial intelligence helps you with tasks like meal prep, translation and planning a trip. By Elie Levine See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de ...
NBC News

U.S. military is using AI to help plan Iran air attacks, sources say, as lawmakers call for oversight

As the U.S. military expands its use of AI tools to pinpoint targets for airstrikes in Iran, members of Congress are calling for guardrails and greater oversight of the technology’s use in war.
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft investigates classic Outlook sync and connection issues

Microsoft is investigating several issues causing email synchronization and connection problems when using the classic Outlook desktop client. The first bug causes "Can't connect to the server" errors ...

I.T. is Eighty, an Ageing Boomer

The digital computing machine is at the end of a Rogers’ innovation curve. Is “AI” just a last hurrah?  Introduction In his ...
Bleeping Computer

Apple patches older iPhones and iPads against Coruna exploits

Apple has released security updates to patch older iPhones and iPads against a set of vulnerabilities targeted in cyberespionage and crypto-theft attacks using the Coruna exploit kit. Some of these ...
Hackaday

What Is A Computer?

On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent laptop computer. If so, why not just add on a ...