Get ready for the return of wearables and a new stage in the fashion-tech relationship.
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New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
The cost of high-performance GPUs, typically $8,000 or more, means they are frequently shared among dozens of users in cloud environments. Two new attacks demonstrate how a malicious user can gain full root control of a host machine by performing novel Rowhammer attacks on high-performance GPU cards made by Nvidia. The attacks exploit memory hardware’s...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
An initial public offering of Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company would most likely be a generational wealth event and one of the largest offerings ever.
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A.I. Companies Shatter Fund-Raising Records, as Boom Accelerates
OpenAI, Anthropic, Waymo and other artificial intelligence companies hauled in $297 billion in funding in the first three months of the year.
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One of Apple’s First Employees Looks Back at 50 Years
In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs’s childhood home. The company has changed, but he’s still there.
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Goodbye ‘Geeky Hunk’? Gmail Users Can Now Change Their Usernames.
Users who have been saddled with now-cringe email handles since the mid-2000s can now change them without losing any data under a policy Google announced on Wednesday.
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Apple’s Fitness Chief, Who Was Accused of Harassment, Is Retiring
The high-profile executive was a key figure in the company’s expansion into fitness technology and services.
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How Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Branding for Teens Unraveled
The social media giant, under legal pressure from the Motion Picture Association, has retreated from its use of the movie rating in its marketing.
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A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Russian Internet Restrictions and Evasion
As the Kremlin spends heavily on censorship technology, Russians are scrambling to find new ways to circumvent the limits.
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Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption
Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently written whitepapers have concluded. In one, researchers demonstrated the use of neutral atoms as reconfigurable qubits that have free access to each other. They went on to...