The open-source software underlying critical infrastructure — from financial systems to public utilities to emergency services and electronic health records — is vulnerable to malicious cyberattacks.

Through the looking glass: When software historians talk about preserving the roots of modern computing, they usually mean source code or documentation. Now, they can mean the computers themselves – ...

The quantum computing field is full of potent competitors. Rigetti Computing is struggling to develop an accurate quantum computing system. Quantum computing isn't a niche technology sector. There are ...

A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on complex problems such as protein folding (for drug discovery) and number ...

John Martinis is a hardware guy. He prefers the nitty-gritty of doing physics in the lab over the idealised world of textbooks. But you couldn’t write the quantum computing history books without him: ...

Quantum computing represents a potential breakthrough technology that could far surpass the technical limitations of modern-day computing systems for some tasks. However, putting together practical, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently released its January 2026 Cybersecurity Newsletter, focusing on system hardening and security baselines as ...

Investors have grown more concerned over the run-up in tech stocks and valuations of private AI companies, stoking fears of a bubble. WSJ’s Hannah Erin Lang uses three charts to explain what’s behind ...

Alphabet is getting closer to useful quantum technology. Nvidia recently released a product that will enable hybrid quantum computing. IonQ's quantum computer is leading the pack for accuracy. Quantum ...

Tony Scott had already boarded his flight from Seattle to Dallas back in July when his problems started. It was about 8 p.m. on a Sunday night when the flight crew asked the passengers to get off the ...