Technology

Amazon is officially entering the race to develop a quantum computer, joining U.S. and Chinese rivals in the quest to harness the properties of nature’s tiniest particles into computing power far surpassing existing machines. From a report: Amazon will base its quantum team at a new center on the campus Read more…

“License plate readers are rapidly reshaping private security in American neighborhoods,” reports the Washington Post, as aggressively-marketed $2,500-a-year “safety-as-a-service” packages “spread to cover practically everywhere anyone chooses to live in the United States” and “bringing police surveillance tools to the masses with an automated watchdog that records 24 hours a Read more…

A steady drumbeat from some of the most influential executives in the technology industry has emerged in recent months to push the idea that the U.S. government should invest in a “national research cloud” — a hub for U.S. research into artificial intelligence where researchers from academia and smaller tech Read more…

Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender say cyber criminals have been using a rootkit named FiveSys “that somehow made its way through the driver certification process to be digitally signed by Microsoft,” reports ZDNet: The valid signature enables the rootkit — malicious software that allows cyber criminals to access and control infected Read more…

“Money may not grow on trees,” argues InfoWorld, “but it does grow in GitHub repos.” (as well as other open-source code-hosting sites). “Open source projects produce the most valuable and sophisticated software on the planet, free for the taking, dramatically lowering the costs of information technology for all companies…” Then Read more…