For the last 21 years, the collection of the former Computer Museum of America / San Diego Computer Museum has sat in the basement of the Love Library at San Diego State University. It is protected from the elements, secure … Read more
22 Jul 2026 8 min read B. Jack Copeland is a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Operators Dorothy Du Boisson and Elsie Booker working Colossus, the world’s first large-scale programmable electronic digital computer, at … Read more
Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the … Read more
Making computer use safe in 3.5 Flash To mitigate some of the prompt injection risks for agents operating in live environments, we use targeted adversarial training for computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash. We’re also releasing two optional enterprise safeguard … Read more
2026-06-06 In a recent discussion on the Aftermath Podcast about the ill effects of the current AI hype cycle, one of the editors said something that really resonated with me: I love the computer. — Chris Person This was in … Read more
09 Jun 2026 4 min read Brian Jenney is the owner of Parsity, a program that helps engineers through hands-on training. Erik Vrielink This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert … Read more
In the mid-1970s, there were just a few computers in Canadian homes. A decade later, a worldwide personal computing frenzy was on and all kinds of computers for home and personal use were manufactured by the millions. The computer hobby … Read more
We ran a benchmark comparing two ways of letting an AI agent operate the same admin panel, with the goal of putting a price tag on vision agents (browser-use, computer-use). Here is what we measured, what we had to change … Read more
My children are hopelessly addicted to their gaming devices. This is a problem, but not one that I can directly solve because the school mandates that they have both an Android smartphone and a Windows laptop. Rather than to meet … Read more
Author’s note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and finally the rise of hybrids that fused home video game systems … Read more