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The Department of War has recognized the national security threat posed by quantum computers and has put some teeth behind the federal government’s push for quantum-proof encryption. It announced plans for a centralized oversight structure for post-quantum encryption, scanning vulnerable systems, coordinating migration roadmaps, and developing post-quantum cryptography for defense needs. The depa…

Broadcom’s claims that it can support European cloud service providers building competitive sovereign solutions are exaggerated, according to the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers Europe (CISPE). The US company is promoting its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) software as the enabling technology for the European Union’s Sovereign Cloud, but Broadcom is not the solution to Europe’s technology so…

The quantum computing industry has a supply-chain problem: The companies that could make the specialized lasers, cryogenics, and photonics it depends on don’t have enough of a market yet to invest in creating these products. An executive order signed Monday aims to fix that, directing the government to strengthen domestic component manufacturing and partner with the private sector to fill the gap…

Microsoft’s controversial claim that its Majorana chip program will make possible a scalable quantum computer by 2029 has been thrown into new doubt by a scientific paper that questions whether the company has correctly interpreted its own experimental evidence. According to a peer-reviewed paper by Dr. Henry Legg from the University of St Andrews, published this week in Nature , Microsoft’s Topo…

IBM is showing off a fingernail-size silicon chip that promises to deliver more power, more efficiently, in future computing, communications, and infrastructure deployments. The sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip features a transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node, IBM says. It packs nearly 100 billion transistors, which is almost twice the density of IBM’s 2 nm chip unveiled in 2021. A s…

The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom has caused many enterprise IT leaders to reexamine their infrastructure strategies. For organizations running vSphere 8, the October 2027 end-of-support deadline is rapidly becoming a planning priority. What may appear to be a routine upgrade is driving bigger discussions about cost, flexibility, cloud strategy, and long-term infrastructure direction. Many or…

Qualcomm on Wednesday said that it will spend $3.9 billion to purchase AI-native software platform developer Modular Inc., a move that Qualcomm says will allow it to level the playing field on data centers by creating “a silicon-agnostic compute layer.” The stock-based acquisition “further enables Qualcomm Technologies to deliver a silicon-agnostic compute layer across devices, edge, and data cen…

IBM, its RedHat subsidiary, and Palo Alto Networks are teaming up to help enterprises identify vulnerabilities in open-source software and deploy safeguards against threats, particularly those generated by AI . The joint effort will rely on Palo Alto’s network-based virtual patching technology, which is found in its Prisma security software , and IBM/Red Hat’s Project Lightwell, a software remedi…

A critical Cisco Unified CM vulnerability is now under active exploitation, weeks after the company issued patches warning it could allow attackers to gain root access. Threat intelligence firm Defused reported the exploitation on June 23. The company said it observed the activity over the weekend. “This is currently being exploited from a single source using an unvetted PoC, with genuinely-forma…

AI continues to fuel demand for new networking technology and the vendors that build it. Upscale AI, which emerged from stealth in September 2025 with a $100 million seed round , has raised an additional $190 million in a Series A-1 extension. Total funding now stands at $500 million, and its current valuation is $2 billion. The round was led by Premji Invest and includes new investors Nvidia, Sa…

Last week’s HPE Discover event in Las Vegas marked the first time the annual user conference included the now-fully-absorbed Juniper Networks. Rami Rahim, former CEO of Juniper Networks and current EVP, president and general manager of HPE Networking, took to the main stage for a dedicated networking session after HPE CEO Antonio Neri’s morning keynote . Rahim emphasized the network’s importance …

China has reclaimed the top spot in the global supercomputing race. The debut of China’s LineShine on the 67th edition of the TOP500 rankings ends El Capitan’s run at the top the list and marks the first time a China-based system has led the rankings since Sunway TaihuLight in 2017 . Installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen and built by Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, LineShin…

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Dell’s new high-end Nvidia-based server is a centerpiece for its integrated AI platform aimed at enterprise customers with major AI infrastructure plans. The Dell PowerEdge XE8812, with its core Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture, scales up to 144 GPUs per rack and will be at the heart of the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia preconfigured package of server, storage, networking, and software infrastru…

Nvidia has formally launched the Vera Rubin platform, a combination CPU and GPU platform billed as a major step forward in the convergence of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) for scientific research. Announced at the ISC High Performance 2026 conference in Hamburg, the new platform combines Nvidia’s Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs, networking technologies, and software stack int…