Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM’s System/360 project and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, dies at 91 (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

November 24, 2022

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM’s System/360 project and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, dies at 91 — He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM’s dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.

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IBM announces its Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits, up from 127 qubits in the 2021 Eagle processor, and plans to hit 4,000 qubits by 2025 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
IBM announces its Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits, up from 127 qubits in the 2021 Eagle processor, and plans to hit 4,000 qubits by 2025 — IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we’re not quite there yet. For now, we have to make do with …

November 9, 2022

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 6.5% YoY to $14.11B vs. $13.51B est., with software revenue up 7.5% YoY to $5.81B vs. $5.54B est., and lifts FY 2022 revenue forecast (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 6.5% YoY to $14.11B vs. $13.51B est., with software revenue up 7.5% YoY to $5.81B vs. $5.54B est., and lifts FY 2022 revenue forecast — – IBM beat on the top and bottom lines and raised its revenue growth forecast for all of 2022.

October 19, 2022

How cosmic rays can alter computers’ memory, a phenomenon understood since at least the 1970s, and why it is hard to tie specific errors to ionizing radiation (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)

Chris Baraniuk / BBC:
How cosmic rays can alter computers’ memory, a phenomenon understood since at least the 1970s, and why it is hard to tie specific errors to ionizing radiation — The Earth is subjected to a hail of subatomic particles from the Sun and beyond our solar system which could be the cause of glitches that afflict our phones and computers.

October 14, 2022

Microsoft plans to integrate DALL-E 2 with the newly announced Microsoft Designer app and Image Creator tool in Bing and Microsoft Edge (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft plans to integrate DALL-E 2 with the newly announced Microsoft Designer app and Image Creator tool in Bing and Microsoft Edge — Microsoft is making a major investment in DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s AI-powered system that generates images from text, by bringing it to first-party apps and services.

October 12, 2022

Micron plans to spend up to $100B over 20 years to build a chipmaking complex in upstate New York, helped by federal and state government incentives (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Micron plans to spend up to $100B over 20 years to build a chipmaking complex in upstate New York, helped by federal and state government incentives — The company is planning a giant complex in Clay, N.Y., a sign that the government’s investments in semiconductors are steering firms’ decisions.

October 4, 2022

IBM and Maersk’s blockchain-enabled supply chain offering TradeLens, launched in 2018, will shut down in Q1 2023; Maersk blames a lack of industry collaboration (Christiana Loureiro/The Block)

Christiana Loureiro / The Block:
IBM and Maersk’s blockchain-enabled supply chain offering TradeLens, launched in 2018, will shut down in Q1 2023; Maersk blames a lack of industry collaboration — – The companies made a viable platform but couldn’t get a global collaboration going. — Danish shipping company Maersk …

November 30, 2022

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