2025 April 25.
Attila Fodor
QNodeOS the first quantum operating system
Quantum networks have been very hard for developers because each hardware type needed its own software layer. In mid-March, a team from the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) announced a new quantum operating system called QNodeOS. Like classic operating systems, QNodeOS hides low-level hardware details and lets you build higher-level applications on different quantum processors. The first demo appeared online in Nature on March 12, 2025, and since then QNodeOS has become a hot topic in quantum network research.
2025 April 24.
Attila Fodor
The bipolar world has also split the AI ecosystem
In spring 2025, Huawei began mass shipments of its Ascend 910C artificial intelligence chip to customers in China. The company hopes to fill the gap left by U.S. export restrictions in the AI-chip market. The Ascend 910C is not a brand-new design: it combines two earlier Ascend 910B chips into one module, using Huawei’s own Da Vinci architecture and chiplet technology. This dual-chip design delivers about 780–800 TFLOPS of computing power and around 3.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
2025 April 23.
Attila Fodor
OpenAI to Purchase the Chrome Browser
In August 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a competition lawsuit against Google, finding that Google holds an illegal monopoly in the online search market. The court ruled that Google controls 89.2 % of general search services and 94.9 % on mobile devices. After this ruling, the court asked for several measures to restore competition.
2025 April 22.
Attila Fodor
ADATA 512 GB Premier Extreme SD Express 8.0 promises revolutionary performance
ADATA has introduced the first SD Express 8.0 memory card in its Premier Extreme series. The card has 512 GB of storage and offers read speeds up to 1.6 GB/s and write speeds up to 1.2 GB/s. This is about twelve times faster than regular UHS‑I cards, four times faster than UHS‑II, and quicker than many entry‑level NVMe SSDs.
2025 April 16.
Attila Fodor
Google Introduces the Agent2Agent (A2A) Open Source Protocol
In a recent speech, Jensen Huang (CEO of NVIDIA) divided the evolution of artificial intelligence into several phases and called the current phase the era of Agentic AI. Although he mainly focused on the next phase of the physical AI era, we should not forget that the Agentic AI era also started only this year, so its fully developed form has not yet been seen. The recent announcement by Google of the open source Agent2Agent protocol gives us a hint of what this more advanced form might look like. The protocol is designed to bridge the gap between AI agents created on different platforms, frameworks, and by various vendors, enabling smooth communication and collaboration.
2025 April 15.
Attila Fodor
Apple in Trouble with Artificial Intelligence Developments?
With Trump's tariffs, Apple appears to be facing increasing problems. One reason is that, besides the tariffs—which have hit Apple's shares hard—there are internal conflicts, especially in the division responsible for AI integration. Tripp Mickle, a journalist for The New York Times, reports that Apple has not been able to produce any new innovations lately. Although this may not be entirely true—since, after much debate, the company finally managed to launch Apple Intelligence—there is no doubt that it is lagging behind its competitors in the field of artificial intelligence.
2025 April 14.
Attila Fodor
New Collaboration Between Netflix and OpenAI
Netflix recently began testing a new artificial intelligence-based search feature that uses OpenAI’s technology to improve content search. This feature is a significant departure from traditional search methods because it allows users to find movies and TV shows using specific terms, such as their mood or preferences, rather than only using titles, genres, or actor names.
2025 April 11.
Attila Fodor
Strong Turbulence Around Meta Llama Models
Less than a week after its market debut, Llama 4 has already received harsh criticism from users. As mentioned before, one of Llama 4’s new features is its architecture built from different modules. This design lets the model have a much larger effective parameter set than the one it uses at run time, so in theory, it should perform much better. However, several independent user tests show that it does not meet the expected results, especially for mathematical tasks and coding. Some users claim that Meta heavily manipulated benchmarks to achieve better scores, while others believe that an internal version of the model was tested while a more modest version was released to the public.
2025 April 10.
Attila Fodor
Google Geospatial Reasoning: A New AI Tool for Solving Geospatial Problems
Geospatial information science is one of today’s most dynamic fields. It deals with collecting, analyzing, and visualizing location-based data. This discipline combines geosciences with information technology to address practical needs such as urban planning, infrastructure development, natural disaster management, and public health. Although technology like GPS navigation and Google Maps has long been available, the recent explosion of data and the growing demand for real-time decision-making have created a need for new solutions. This is where artificial intelligence comes in—especially with Google’s Geospatial Reasoning framework.
2025 April 08.
Attila Fodor
Jakarta EE Web Profile 11 Has Been Released
A bit later than originally planned, version 11 of the Jakarta EE Web Profile—maintained by the Eclipse Foundation—has officially arrived, bringing major improvements over previous releases.
2025 April 07.
Attila Fodor
Several Important New Features in Llama 4
Meta’s latest family of artificial intelligence models, Llama 4, brings significant innovations to multimodal model development. In addition to the two models currently available—Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick—a very powerful model called Llama 4 Behemoth is in development. Behemoth is expected to play a significant role in STEM-related tasks (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in the future.
2025 April 04.
Attila Fodor
Snapdragon® 8s Gen 4 Processor Announced
Qualcomm’s latest premium mobile chip, the Snapdragon® 8s Gen 4, brings significant improvements over previous generations. This new processor offers outstanding performance and power efficiency compared to the Snapdragon® 8s Gen 3, taking the mobile experience to a new level.
2025 April 03.
Attila Fodor
New Standard Lock File Format for Python Package Management
With the adoption of PEP 751, the Python development community has introduced the pylock.toml format, a uniform and secure solution for managing dependencies. This change addresses a long-standing issue: there was no official standard to ensure that package versions and dependencies were handled consistently across different environments.
2025 April 01.
Attila Fodor
Apple’s AI Doctor Plans
Apple is developing an AI-powered health coach, codenamed “Project Mulberry,” designed to give personalized advice for everyday life. The new feature is expected to be included in a future iOS 19.4 update—likely in spring or summer 2026—and will first launch in the US.
2025 March 31.
Attila Fodor
Babylon.js 8.0 Has Arrived
After a year of intense development, Microsoft has finally unveiled Babylon.js version 8.0. This new release brings several advanced features that enable faster, more visually appealing, and interactive web experiences. IBL shadows create more realistic environment lighting, while area lights allow for simple yet effective 2D lighting effects. In addition, the Node Render Graph—introduced in its alpha stage—gives developers full control over the rendering process, and the new Lightweight Viewer and WGSL Core Engine shaders help reduce development time and boost performance.
2025 March 30.
Attila Fodor
Credit-based Windows Notepad usage with Copilot integration
Microsoft is introducing a new feature in Windows Notepad that allows you to use Microsoft Copilot, an artificial intelligence to improve your writing in Notepad. The feature allows you to rephrase your writing, generate a summary, or make other text tweaks such as adjusting the tone or style of text.
2025 March 28.
Attila Fodor
Zorin OS 17.3 with the Most User-Friendly GNOME Desktop Environment
Released on March 26, 2023, Zorin OS 17.3 introduces several new features to enhance the user experience, security, and system compatibility.
2025 March 27.
Attila Fodor
TxGemma - New Open Model for Drug Development
One of the biggest challenges in drug development is finding lead compounds beyond the clinical phase, as 90% of candidates fail in the initial trial phase. In this context, TxGemma—an open model collection developed on top of Google's DeepMind Gemma and its family of modern, lightweight open models—represents a breakthrough. TxGemma aims to harness the power of large language models to improve the efficiency of therapeutic discovery, from identifying promising targets to predicting clinical trial outcomes.
2025 March 26.
Attila Fodor
Artificial Intelligence in Practice: An Innovative Collaboration between NVIDIA and Boston Dynamics
Modern robotics has grown hand in hand with artificial intelligence and simulation technologies. NVIDIA’s Isaac™ GR00T research project aims to speed up the development of humanoid robots with new basic models. Meanwhile, Boston Dynamics uses its long experience and modern computing platforms to create robots that move in a natural, lifelike way. Their partnership is a new milestone in humanoid robotics, as it combines simulation, learning, and real-world testing to create adaptive, real-time robotic solutions.
2025 March 25.
Attila Fodor