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

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
Computer Weekly

Astronomer: Why data pipelines control the flow of AI

AI ‘eats’ data. We all know the garbage-in-garbage-out analogy and we understand why AI intelligence itself is inherently ...
New Scientist

Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faster and cut energy use

Computers built with analogue circuits promise huge speed and efficiency gains over ordinary computers, but normally at the ...

Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...