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The Department of Veterans Affairs is receiving bipartisan support for its renewed rollout of a new Electronic Health Record system — a multibillion-dollar initiative that has faced numerous challenges since it was launched during the first Trump administration. VA’s implementation of the new Oracle-Cerner EHR represents one of the largest IT contracts in the federal government. The department paused the project multiple times to address ongoing outages and functionality issues. Last month, the VA resumed EHR deployments following a three-year hiatus. In April, the VA introduced the Oracle-Cerner system across four VA health care facilities in Michigan — Ann Arbor,…

Pros and Cons Advantages Durable construction perfect for demanding outdoor environments.Compatible with Windows 11 and Copilot+ AI capabilities.Extensive connectivity and expansion options available. Disadvantages High cost.Heavy design.Display lacks brightness under direct sunlight. Subscribe to ZDNET: Make us your primary news source on Google.Though desktops and workstations are standard in offices, they aren’t always the best solution for performing tasks outside the controlled indoor environment. This is where tablets excel. Beyond being more portable than PCs, they can also be made far more resilient to harsh conditions. Admittedly, tablets typically can’t match the raw power of traditional computers, but thanks to…

According to Hailo, robots require edge processing to operate safely in real-world settings. Source: Hailo AI Artificial intelligence has progressed through several distinct stages. Initial systems centered on perception—detecting objects, understanding speech, and pulling insights from data. Generative AI then broadened these abilities, allowing machines to produce original content. Most recently, agentic systems have started managing intricate workflows across digital platforms. However, throughout all these developments, AI has mostly stayed within the digital realm. That is beginning to shift. The upcoming phase of AI is physical. Rather than generating results on a screen, physical AI systems engage directly with the…

Attackers are increasingly targeting the packages, editor extensions, and AI tool configurations found on developer workstations—not just production servers. To combat this threat, Perplexity has released an internal security tool as open source. Perplexity has published Bumblebee on GitHub. This tool serves as a read-only inventory collector designed for macOS and Linux developer machines. Built entirely in Go with zero external dependencies, it is already deployed internally to safeguard developer systems connected to Perplexity’s search product, Comet browser, and Computer agent. The Challenge Bumblebee Addresses If you work as a software engineer or data scientist, you likely have dozens of…

Instruction-tuned language models are designed to reject harmful requests. But which specific components within the model are responsible for this behavior — and how does that mechanism get established during training? A new study from the Nous Research team examines this question at the level of individual neurons. The team introduced contrastive neuron attribution (CNA), a technique that pinpoints the exact MLP neurons whose activation patterns most clearly differentiate harmful prompts from harmless ones. By disabling just 0.1% of MLP activations, they cut refusal rates by over 50% in most instruction-tuned models tested — spanning Llama and Qwen architectures ranging…

Azure NetApp Files is redefining what’s possible for EDA in the cloud—delivering scalable, high-performance storage that supports massive concurrency, low latency, and consistent production performance. With independent benchmark validation and real-world adoption, organizations can now run EDA workloads at scale without traditional storage bottlenecks. Last year, we outlined how Azure NetApp Files helped reshape silicon design by delivering the low-latency, high-throughput storage required for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads at cloud scale. Since then, we have continued to extend performance and scalability. Today, we are advancing that progress with another significant step forward. Modern semiconductor design is defined by scale.…

Scientists in the United States have created a carbon nanotube film the size of a few centimetres that sets a new record for its ability to change the frequency of light. This advancement could improve the optical technologies that form the backbone of future communications and computing systems, including those powering the Internet of Things (IoT). The study, conducted by a team at Rice University and published in the journal ACS Nano, reveals that precisely aligned carbon nanotubes with a uniform chiral structure can achieve extraordinarily strong “second harmonic generation” (SHG). This is a nonlinear optical phenomenon where incoming light…

At a glance Fara1.5-27B achieved a 72% success rate on Online-Mind2Web, outperforming both OpenAI Operator (58.3%) and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use (57.3%). The open-weight models are available in three sizes—4 billion, 9 billion, and 27 billion parameters—all fine-tuned from Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5. Fara1.5-9B is currently available on Azure AI Foundry, with the 4B and 27B versions launching soon. Picture this: you tell your computer to search for vacation rentals, browse five different websites, complete the booking form, and pick the option nearest to the beach. You head off to grab a coffee. By the time you return, everything is handled.…

Members of Congress from both chambers have started asking pressing questions at the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity revealed this week that a CISA contractor deliberately uploaded AWS GovCloud keys — along with a large collection of other agency secrets — to a publicly accessible GitHub account. The investigation comes as CISA continues working to contain the breach and revoke the exposed credentials. KrebsOnSecurity reported on May 18 that a CISA contractor with admin-level access to the agency’s code development platform had set up a public GitHub profile named “Private-CISA” containing plaintext credentials for dozens of…

Memorial Day is coming up this weekend, and you can already find steep markdowns on top-tier TVs from brands like Samsung, LG, and more. Retailers like Amazon and Best Buy are offering discounts of hundreds, even thousands, on everything from high-end OLEDs to more budget-friendly Mini LED and QLED options. Also: The best TVs to buy in 2026I review TVs and track deals all year. To help you find the best of the best Memorial Day TV deals, I put together a list of the deepest discounts available so you can upgrade your home theater without breaking the bank. (You can also…