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Microsoft Corp. last week delivered what looks on paper like a great quarter, with a beat of 1% and 5% on revenue and operating operating profit, respectively. But the two-day reaction from investors tells a different story, with the stock off double digits from its pre-earnings price. Last quarter, increased capital spending was interpreted as a signal for enthusiasm and confidence. But artificial intelligence ambition has turned into AI skepticism. Specifically, Microsoft’s capital expenditures came in higher than expected but Azure growth didn’t. Without a clean bridge from capital spend to clear cloud return on investment, Azure growth, despite an…
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a quantum computer can perform a verifiable algorithm faster than any classical supercomputer. The breakthrough, achieved with Google’s Willow quantum processor, marks a major stride toward practical, real-world applications of quantum computing: in fields ranging from drug discovery to materials science. The team’s innovation centers on a new algorithm called Quantum Echoes, capable of probing the hidden structure of nature with unprecedented precision. Much like how sonar sends a signal into the ocean and listens for the echo to reveal what lies beneath, Quantum Echoes sends a quantum signal into a system…
This time-lapse image of Venus and the Pleiades shows the tracks of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. The image received an award in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest. (Torsten Hansen / IAU OAE / Creative Commons Attribution) SpaceX founder Elon Musk wasn’t kidding about his plans to go big with orbital data centers: The company is asking the Federal Communications Commission to approve a plan to put up to a million satellites in orbit to process data for artificial intelligence applications. “Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a…
Thinktanks want AI news labels for transparency. But the real danger lies in AI’s role in shaping perception and trust before users even question accuracy. AI tools and businesses are actively shaping how users perceive information, and that’s the real threat. Generative AI is still sloppy at creating content that’s comparable to human creators. But it’s not as if users haven’t tried their best to rely on it anyway. The writing and designs are too discernible, and the quality too repetitive and shallow to truly match professional creatives. However, that’s only the visible end of the problem. AI today is…
Lenovo’s Qira announcement at CES 2026 is not just another assistant launch. With Qira, Lenovo stakes a claim for where personal computing is headed: away from app-hopping and prompt repetition, toward an ambient layer of intelligence that persists across devices, carries context, and takes action. Lenovo describes Qira as a “Personal Ambient Intelligence” that shows up as Lenovo Qira on PCs and Motorola Qira on phones, embedded at the system level and designed to be “always present” with user permission (see the Lenovo press release: Introducing Lenovo and Motorola Qira). What Qira is trying to become The most interesting part…
Ravie LakshmananJan 31, 2026Social Engineering / SaaS Security Google-owned Mandiant on Friday said it identified an “expansion in threat activity” that uses tradecraft consistent with extortion-themed attacks orchestrated by a financially motivated hacking group known as ShinyHunters. The attacks leverage advanced voice phishing (aka vishing) and bogus credential harvesting sites mimicking targeted companies to gain unauthorized access to victim environments by collecting sign-on (SSO) credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. The end goal of the attacks is to target cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to siphon sensitive data and internal communications and extort victims. The tech giant’s threat intelligence team said…
Electric vehicle startup Slate Auto may have grabbed headlines with its ultra-affordable electric pickup, but it doesn’t intend to stop there. In a recent interview with InsideEVs, CEO Chris Barman said that while the company’s first model, a stripped-down EV truck designed to cost in the “mid-$20,000” range, still needs a final price and production ramp-up, Slate aspires to build additional electric vehicles beyond its debut model. Slate The first Slate truck, a compact rear-motor, two-door electric pickup with an optional extended range battery, has quickly become one of the EVs to look forward to, which is expected to start…
Chatbots don’t have mothers, but if they did, Claude’s would be Amanda Askell. She’s an in-house philosopher at the AI company Anthropic, and she wrote most of the document that tells Claude what sort of personality to have — the “constitution” or, as it became known internally at Anthropic, the “soul doc.”(Disclosure: Future Perfect is funded in part by the BEMC Foundation, whose major funder was also an early investor in Anthropic; they don’t have any editorial input into our content.)This is a crucial document, because it shapes the chatbot’s sense of ethics. That’ll matter anytime someone asks it for…
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“Juice jacking” may be a new term for some, but it has been around as a method of cyber attack for a long time. The former problem was that it was expensive to install, but now that has all changed. The tools required for juice jacking have become cheaper and easier and it’s now a way that the average cyber criminal can steal personal data. Juice jacking is the use of USB ports to hijack and install malware that monitors software on devices as they are charging. This means that any public charging area is at risk. What few know…