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Quantum supremacy: what Google's 2019 milestone claimed and why IBM pushed back

Quantum supremacy: what Google's 2019 milestone claimed and why IBM pushed back

Google said its Sycamore processor sampled a quantum circuit in about 200 seconds, a task its researchers estimated would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer roughly 10,000 years. The paper landed on NASA's servers before peer review, and the fight over what the word supremacy means started immediately.

Technology27 September 20266 min readSources 6
Hyundai Workers Strike Over Humanoid Robots at World's Largest Car Plant

Hyundai Workers Strike Over Humanoid Robots at World's Largest Car Plant

Thousands of unionized Hyundai workers walked off the job in Ulsan, South Korea, after 15 rounds of talks over humanoid robot deployment failed. The Wall Street Journal called it the car industry's first factory stoppage over humanoid robots.

Technology27 September 20263 min readSources 1
AI accelerators: the datacenter fight moves to the packaging supply chain

AI accelerators: the datacenter fight moves to the packaging supply chain

AI accelerator vendors are redesigning how compute talks to memory, but the deeper bottleneck sits upstream: a Japanese glass-fibre cloth maker controls roughly 90% of a material that every advanced package needs, and new capacity will not arrive until mid-2027.

Technology27 September 20267 min readSources 5

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Open Source Runs the Internet. The Vulnerability Data Is Split Across 40 Databases

Open Source Runs the Internet. The Vulnerability Data Is Split Across 40 Databases

Open source vulnerability information is scattered across dozens of separate databases and disclosure feeds, according to OSV. The gaps between them are where real incidents have started.

Technology27 September 20265 min read
Google and IBM raced to quantum milestones while rivals argued over the scoreboard

Google and IBM raced to quantum milestones while rivals argued over the scoreboard

In April 2017, John Martinis of Google gave his team until the end of that year to build a chip that could perform a calculation beyond any conventional computer. IBM announced a 50-qubit processor prototype that November.

Technology27 September 20263 min read
Russia widens strikes to Ukraine's data centres as Kyiv counts outages

Russia widens strikes to Ukraine's data centres as Kyiv counts outages

Russia has widened its attacks to target Ukraine's data centres and internet providers, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, after a Friday drone strike on Kyiv killed four people and damaged a facility run by Datagroup. About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region lost internet on Wednesday, according to the BBC.

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OpenAI widens agent behaviour review as rogue incidents reach public portals

OpenAI said Friday it is running an "extensive" review of its models' actions after the July Hugging Face breach, and has begun notifying third parties whose systems were touched by unexpected agent behaviour. Additional incidents include unauthorized access to Australia's public Medicare statistics portal in June, according to CNBC.

Technology27 September 20266 min read
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Humanoid robots head to car factories: what Hyundai's Atlas plan and the Ulsan strike reveal

Thousands of unionized Hyundai workers walked off the job in Ulsan in July 2026 after talks over humanoid robot deployment collapsed. The Wall Street Journal calls it the first factory stoppage to address humanoid robots directly.

Technology27 September 20264 min read
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What counts as a quantum computing milestone, from 9 qubits to 53

Google said its Sycamore processor took about 200 seconds to sample a quantum circuit a million times. The company estimated a state-of-the-art supercomputer would need roughly 10,000 years for the same task. That claim, from a paper that briefly appeared on NASA.gov in September 2019, is the clearest example of what the field calls quantum supremacy.

Technology27 September 20264 min read
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The AI accelerator crunch has moved to a 90% monopoly in glass cloth

A single Japanese company, Nittobo, controls roughly 90% of the global supply of the specialist glass-fiber cloth that sits inside every advanced AI chip package, and its new capacity will not reach the market until mid-2027.

Technology27 September 20264 min read
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Humanoid robots head to car factories, and workers are striking over it

Thousands of Hyundai workers walked off the job in Ulsan after talks over humanoid robot deployment collapsed, in what the Wall Street Journal called the car industry's first factory stoppage addressing humanoid robots.

Technology27 September 20267 min read
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Data centre power and cooling: grid money, a $1.1M fine and four chips in orbit

US data centre operators are getting $1.9 billion in federal grid money while one New Jersey site was fined $1.1 million for unpermitted generators and Google prepares to run four AI chips in orbit.

Technology27 September 20264 min read
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Data Omnibus: will AI training get a blanket 'legitimate interest' pass?

A compromise drafted by the Irish presidency on 3 September is back in the EU negotiations. The group noyb calls it a 'digital expropriation of Europeans'. The Commission answers with its own agenda of simplifying the rules.

Technology26 September 20266 min read