Thomas Eugene Kurtz has logged off
Co-invented BASIC
Thomas Eugene Kurtz, the American mathematician and computer scientist who co-invented the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Timesharing System, has died. He was 96.
DoJ wants the Fall of Chrome
Breaking up Google’s monopoly
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has intensified its antitrust actions against Google, proposing a radical measure that would force Alphabet, Google's parent company, to sell its Chrome browser.
Nvidia’s Blackwell chips on fire
And not in a good way
Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell data centre processors have significant overheating problems when installed in high-capacity server racks.
Giving employees weekends was a mistake
Infosys Co-Founder Narayana Murthy wants people to work 70 hours
IT outsourcer Infosys’s founder Narayana Murthy thinks that 70-hour work weeks are essential for India and that allowing staff the weekend off was a mistake.
HarperCollins flogs backlist to AI company
Teaching AI how to write
Book publisher HarperCollins has partnered with an unnamed AI technology company to allow the limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models. Authors can opt into the agreement for a non-negotiable fee of $2,500.