By Siôn Geschwindt “The Future is Here,” declares a glowing neon sign at the entrance to IQM’s quantum data centre in Munich. It’s a bold claim — but one the Finland-based startup is determined to fulfil. To the right of the entrance sign stands a hefty, metal blue door. My host, physicist Frank Deppe, IQM’s head of quantum processing unit (QPU) technology, ushers me inside. Opened last year as part of IQM’s European expansion, the facility hosts six state-of-the-art superconducting quantum computers — used for the company’s own research and offered as a cloud-based service to scientists around the globe. IQM’s Munich quantum…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Siôn Geschwindt Dutch neobank Bunq, Europe’s second-largest digital bank, is gearing up to expand across the Atlantic. The fintech company has filed for a broker-dealer licence with US regulators, completing the first phase of its two-step expansion strategy. The licence will allow Bunq to offer American users investment options — stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds — alongside cash management tools. These will include features like automatic transfers and Mastercard-backed debit cards. However, Bunq isn’t diving into the deep end just yet. This phased approach lets the company gather real-world data and user feedback before it applies for a full US banking licence…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Siôn Geschwindt If you’ve been scrolling social media over the past week, you may have noticed miniature action figure versions of friends, family, or colleagues neatly wrapped in a blister pack. These plastic-fantastic portraits are the latest AI-powered photo trend to sweep the internet — especially LinkedIn. After digital avatars and Studio Ghibli-inspired selfies, we now have the action figure, produced using ChatGPT’s free image generator.  It’s all fun and games, right? But look closer, and behind the gloss and giggles lies some pretty crucial fine print. With this action figure, sustainability is not included.  Mel Morris, the founder of research engine…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: LinkedIn

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By Nick Godt EVs are now more reliable than their internal combustion engine (ICE) counterparts, according to Germany’s ADAC — Europe’s largest roadside assistance provider.

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By Siôn Geschwindt Motorheads have long theorised that the extreme downforce generated by high-performance cars could one day let them drive upside down. Now, British carmaker McMurtry has turned that wild idea into a reality for the first time. In a stunt that would make Batman jealous, McMurtry drove its insanely fast electric Spéirling flipped over. More impressively, it did that for over a minute while keeping the vehicle completely stationary — save for a quick acceleration to prove the car wasn’t tied down.  While it might look like the car has defied gravity, in reality, it’s basic physics coupled with some clever…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Siôn Geschwindt Quantum professionals around the world overwhelmingly agree that quantum utility will arrive within the next decade, according to a new survey by Economist Impact. Quantum utility refers to the point at which quantum computers provide practical advantages over classical computers in solving specific real-world problems. A whopping 83% of the survey’s respondents think that moment will come within 10 years or less.  One-third of them are even more optimistic, predicting that quantum utility could be achieved within the next one-to-five years. That’s more in line with the roadmaps of quantum companies like Finnish startup IQM, which is targeting quantum utility as…This story continues at The Next Web

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iPads are about to become more productive, at least, that’s if the almost seer-like speculation is correct. Apple plans to give its “What’s a PC?” tablets even more Mac-like attributes this year, with details about its plans expected at WWDC 2025 in June.

What can we expect? To be honest, more of the same — so that’s more about making iPads productive, giving them better window management, and improving multitasking capabilities. Bloomberg explains the aim is to make iPads operate “more like a Mac.” These improvements are apparently made possible by the superior performance of the M4 and later series Apple Silicon chips, which are capable of handling tough tasks with low energy consumption.

Apple has been working in this direction for a while, kind of, by adding Stage Manager to enables a more Mac-like workplace. (The Mac also gained Stage Manager). However, it’s arguable whether this feature really ticks the boxes for those who want their tablets to be more like Macs.

The borrowers

That’s not to say the next iteration will be a point improvement on Stage Manager. Apple might well optimize that user interface with ideas borrowed from visionOS. That means possible gesture-based controls, and — assuming the new AI team leaders can make Apple Intelligence run on time — more reliance on contextual-based understanding while working within some applications. (Though I imagine features like those will be rolled out slowly; no one wants their Photoshop transition to be undermined by a hasty head movement from an involuntary cough). 

All the same, if visionOS can be seen as an in-goggles equivalent of the UI we see Tom Cruise using in Minority Report, then taking that same UI and putting it on screen is just a matter of display. The reason I suggest some vision ideas might inform future development of Apple’s other platforms is because of previous hints and the evidently growing power of the visions team, which is now involved in OS development across the company’s ecosystem, including Apple Intelligence.

It’s more logical, in this context, to think that those vision ideas are proliferating than not.

One is like another

Where might such ideas be applied in the iPad user interface? The latest reports are sketchy on any details, and what also isn’t clear is the extent to which Apple might tweak macOS to make it more like the iPad (as it does with Stage Manager, I think).

But if we assume that multitasking and window management are the pain points, then the aim must surely be to make those processes easier and more intuitive. Presumably, that means single interactions to move between windows and/or take content between apps and tasks. If you think about it, while you can do those things on iPads much of the time, getting there sometimes involves three or more steps. On a Mac, it takes perhaps two.

That’s the degree of seamless multitasking support the teams may be looking to achieve. That doesn’t mean they’ll achieve it within the limits of a touch-based system — but what those systems can achieve will become even more impressive as the first M5-powered iPads appear; performance gains enable usability enhancements.

What will this mean to you? 

Productivity professionals should be able to use their iPads to replace even more of the tasks they may use a Windows device for today, turning Apple’s tablet into an even more viable replacement device as Microsoft terminates Windows 10 support later this year. Those abilities should, in theory, extend to any flattish Apple device equipped with enough processor horsepower, and with the company now also expected to introduce folding iPads and iPhones next year, don’t be too surprised if the UI ideas that appear in the iPad this year logically inform the nature of those devices once they ship. It seems that in Apple’s world, not only will you wear your Mac-like sunglasses, but you’ll also fold them up to pop it in your pocket. 

That combination is, of course, only possible because of the computational performance-per-watt of Apple Silicon, which enables thinner, lower-power devices that punch above their weight. It will be interesting to see how closely Apple’s moves match this speculation in the coming months.

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Microsoft has now added support for hotpatching in Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 on x64 systems (AMD/Intel), Bleeping Computer reports. The support means that some security updates can be installed without restarting the computers.

Instead, security updates are downloaded in the background and installed by patching in-memory code into running processors. Hotpatch updates will be released quarterly.

“With hotpatch updates, you can quickly take action to help protect your organization against cyberattacks, while minimizing user disruption. You start by creating a quality update policy with hotpatch activation in Windows Autopatch through the Microsoft Intune console,” Microsoft writes.

Windows should be able to determine on its own whether a system is compatible with hotpatch updates.

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By Partner Content Back in 2000, Oracle GUI tools were almost non-existent. And multi-database GUIs with Oracle? “What’s that?”…
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By Trevor Mogg Amazon is aiming to take on SpaceX’s Starlink internet service using thousands of its own Project Kuiper satellites in low-Earth orbit. The first Project Kuiper satellites were suppsoed to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on April 9, but rough weather conditions forced the mission team […]

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By Nadeem Sarwar I tried the next-gen Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities for a few days. It changed my day-to-day AI expectations forever.

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By Nick Godt Subaru is teasing the 2026 Trailseeker SUV, its second electric vehicle, set to debut at the New York International Auto Show next week.

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In a move that will likely force IT to much more aggressively use web certificate automation services, the Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum), a gathering of certificate issuers and suppliers of applications that use certificates, voted Friday to radically slash the lifespan of the certificates that verify the ownership of sites. The approved changes, which passed overwhelmingly, will be phased in gradually through March 2029, when the certs will only last 47 days.

Website certificates, also known as SSL/TLS certificates, are issued by trusted certification authorities (CAs) and use public-key cryptography to authenticate websites to web browsers.

This controversial change has been debated extensively for more than a year. The group’s argument is that this will improve web security in various ways, but some have argued that the group’s members have a strong alternative incentive, as they will be the ones earning more money due to this acceleration.

“This is fully what we were expecting,” said Jon Nelson, a principal advisory director at Info-Tech Research Group. “[But] I do question the motives of the group. They are doing this under the auspices of reducing risk, but I question if that is the real reason. Do the people making up this group have a conflict of interest in that this move could generate additional revenue for their companies?”

Although the group voted overwhelmingly to approve the change, with zero “No” votes, not every member agreed with the decision; five members abstained.

Tim Callan, the chief compliance officer at Sectigo and vice chair of the CA/Browser Forum, said that one of the certificate authority (CA) members who abstained, who he declined to identify, wrote a note to the group. Callan said it read, “we have mixed feelings about this. We are in favor in principle. However, we are unconvinced that the most restrictive terms are necessary, to go all of the way down to 47 days.”

Callan said that he personally applauds the changes. “I am thrilled for a couple of reasons. Shortening certificate lifespans are a good trend. It is the right direction for things to go.”

The changes, which were primarily pushed by Apple, have two separate elements. First is the length of time after a user proves that they have valid control over their domain (Domain Control Validation (DCV)) that they are permitted to order or renew a certificate without re-validation. The second involves how long the actual Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate is valid.

In roughly one year, on March 15, 2026, the “maximum TLS certificate lifespan shrinks to 200 days. This accommodates a six-month renewal cadence. The DCV reuse period reduces to 200 days,” according to the passed ballot. 

Two years after that, on March 15, 2029, “maximum TLS certificate lifespan shrinks to 47 days. This accommodates a one-month renewal cadence. The DCV reuse period reduces to 10 days.”

And given the technical nature of the member company representatives, they opted to define what they mean by a day.

But they didn’t define it as 24 hours. They took no chances: “For the purpose of calculations, a day is measured as 86,400 seconds. Any amount of time greater than this, including fractional seconds and/or leap seconds, shall represent an additional day. For this reason, Subscriber Certificates should not be issued for the maximum permissible time by default, in order to account for such adjustments.”

The passed document also included a preamble written by Apple, which tried to explain the rationale for the change.

In that letter, Apple said the gradual phasing in of the changes was intended to allow for discovery of unanticipated issues and to specifically allow for time to make adjustments. But its actual phrasing was pure Cupertino: “In order to shift more unknown unknowns towards known unknowns and known knowns over time, it is useful to ensure broad awareness prior to changes taking effect.”

The core argument from Apple was that today’s longer durations give far too much time for bad things to happen.

“Certificates are representations of a point in time state of reality. That is, at the point of certificate issuance, all data certified therein is correct and the process followed for that certification is accurately documented for that point in time,” Apple wrote. “The more time passes from that moment of issuance, the more likely it becomes that data represented in the certificate diverge from reality. Thus, a reduction to both certificate lifetimes and data reuse periods increases the average net reliability of certificates.”

But, Apple continued, CAs do not always do their job perfectly.

“At times, CAs do not issue certificates in accordance with the policies, requirements, or specifications that govern such issuance,” Apple said. “Requiring more frequent validation of information used in the issuance of certificates and lowering the maximum validity period of certificates reduces the risk of improper validation, the scope of improper validation perpetuation, and the opportunities for misissued certificates to negatively impact the ecosystem and its relying parties.”

Apple added that the shorter certificate lifespans also allow the industry to more effectively react to changes in cryptography.

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By Thomas Macaulay After steering Dutch chip giant ASML to become Europe’s most valuable tech firm, Peter Wennink is now focused on the next frontiers of deep tech. Wennink has already been involved in numerous breakthroughs in the field. Over his 25-year career at ASML — including over a decade as CEO — the company laid foundations for countless deep tech innovations. Under his leadership, the business earned renown as the sole supplier and producer of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines. These systems are essential for manufacturing the world’s most advanced chips. They have become a crucial force in today’s AI boom, supporting…This story continues at The Next Web

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