The AWS outage post-mortem is more revealing in what it doesn’t say

The company listed all of the systems that went haywire, but never really identified what happened differently that day to ...
BBC

Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure?

Twenty five years ago computer programmers were racing to fix the millennium bug amidst fears that it would cause banking systems to crash and planes to fall out of the sky. Much to everyone's relief ...
Microsoft

Microsoft’s analog optical computer cracks two practical problems and shows AI promise

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.
Nature

Peter Lax obituary: mathematician who pioneered computer-based solutions to real-world problems

The US–Hungarian mathematician Peter Lax revealed connections in fundamental equations that govern many physical processes and was a pioneer in the development of computer-based methods for solving ...