What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

SUNY, NY CREATES funding new research, workforce development program

SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. announced Wednesday the creation of the SUNY-NY CREATES Technology Innovation Institute as ...
GV Wire

Big Tech Makes Cal State Campuses Its AI Training Ground

The California State University system is teaming with Big Tech to become the nation’s “first and largest AI-empowered” ...
Leader Publications

How learning computer programming ‘rewires’ parts of the brain

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

PhD Student Charles Cui Attends Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Cui was among 200 young researchers selected to attend the annual networking conference designed to encourage intellectual ...
The Business Journals

A year’s worth of programming presented during the D.C. International Theatre Festival

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Three of Washington, D.C.’s most revered theatres are ...
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Gemini 2.5 Computer Use – Google's AI uses the browser

Google presents an AI model that can use the browser like a human. Gemini 2.5 Computer Use utilises visual and reasoning capabilities. With Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, Google is presenting an AI model ...
The New York Times

Why Diamonds Are a Computer Chip’s New Best Friend

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say. Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity ...
Digit

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model explained: Google’s AI agent to navigate interfaces

Google’s latest Gemini 2.5 update has quietly introduced something that could reshape how artificial intelligence interacts with the web: the Computer Use model. Unlike traditional chatbots that ...
Bleeping Computer

Google's new AI bug bounty program pays up to $30,000 for flaws

This week, Google has launched an AI Vulnerability Reward Program dedicated to security researchers who find and report flaws in the company's AI systems. The new bug bounty program focuses on the ...
Grays Harbor Daily News

Grays Harbor College welcomes new Computer Science program

This fall, Grays Harbor College welcomed its first students in the new Associate of Arts in Computer Science program. As part of the new transfer degree, GHC also introduced a new class, Foundations ...
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Computer inventions can be patented, court rules

Artwork created by generative AI (genAI) and other software could be eligible for copyright protection, after a seven-year legal battle ended with a Federal Court ruling that gaming giant Aristocrat ...