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IBM is a major US technology company providing enterprise hardware, software, consulting, and cloud services, with AI offerings like Granite and Watson.
IBM says its Granite Switch 4.1 8B and 30B models run chat, a decision adapter, a guardian adapter and speech recognition in about one base model's VRAM. The memory claim is IBM's own, so any GPU saving depends on what a team serves today.
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Attackers made 1,423 attempts against Previdian honeypots since September 19 to exploit Langflow CVE-2026-105740 (CVSS 9.9, versions before 1.9.0). In one sequence they got the required login with a common username and password, Previdian said.
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IBM disclosed CVE-2026-96119 on October 13, 2026, a CVSS 9.9 code-injection flaw in the HTTP Server Administration app on IBM i 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 and 7.6. Exploitation needs a valid login to that app, so limiting who can reach it works before the patch lands.
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IBM and Ponemon put the average data breach at a record $4.99 million, up 12%, in a study of 602 organizations. In Varonis's account, 92% of AI-related breaches lacked proper AI access controls, though AI-driven attacks also added about $1 million each.
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IBM moved Spyre's torch.compile backend from its from-scratch sendnn stack to an Inductor extension that IBM puts at roughly 7x smaller. The figure is IBM's own, and the port still needed substantial out-of-tree extensions at Inductor's lower levels and in code generation.
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Rutgers and IBM researchers repeatedly measured and reset up to 100 qubits on a 156-qubit chip to bring a chaotic system under control. The Nature Physics study is among the largest real-time feedback-control demonstrations to date, a capability future fault-tolerant machines will need.
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A survey of 3,935 UK adults found 2.5% do their best thinking at work, against 61.6% who said it happens between 5pm and 9am. The data are self-reported and come from one published account, so employers get a prompt to examine meeting and message load but no measured effect on output.
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Amazon, IBM and the White House expect the first fault-tolerant quantum computers around 2028 or 2029, a timeline that has shortened in recent years. Investors have followed, pushing IonQ up more than 300% since 2024, well before any fault-tolerant machine exists.
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Twenty IT-services firms filed 31.9% fewer H-1B labor applications so far in FY2026, a third of an 8.1% drop, a dev.to analysis of federal data found. Because the forms also record each employer's offered wage by title, teams that sponsor engineers can price roles against named rivals.
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East Fishkill, New York, unanimously barred data centres over 20MW until July 2029, though no developer had applied to build one. The plan surfaced in a filing with New York's grid operator, so opposition reached the town board before any application did.
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IBM subsidiary Anderon has a finalized $1 billion CHIPS award plus $1 billion from IBM to run a quantum-wafer foundry in Albany, New York. Its business case now turns on whether rival quantum companies will send their designs to a fab owned by a competitor.
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Rutgers and IBM researchers reset qubits almost 5,000 times mid-calculation to push a 100-qubit chain from chaos into order. Present-day hardware can run the repeated loop that error correction depends on, though the demonstration stops short of a fault-tolerant machine.
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McDonald's is denying a new lawsuit's allegation that its pricing recommendation system helped coordinate higher menu prices, Fortune reported. Chick-fil-A says it will keep people at its drive-thru speakers, so of the two chains only McDonald's carries the legal and service risk of letting software recommend prices and take orders.
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Europol named wallet keys as crypto's main quantum exposure, a risk that covers the 6.04 million bitcoin Glassnode counts with public keys already on-chain. Its report says those coins can be protected only by moving them before an attack, so the length of the migration queue sets the deadline for custodians.
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Red Hat says its Lightwell project has fixed more than 400 novel vulnerabilities in foundational Java libraries since launching in June. Teams running pinned, older Java dependencies should expect more fixes to land, and Red Hat is selling backports built for their exact versions.
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DARPA moved four quantum firms, Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ, into the final stage of its benchmarking programme, joining Microsoft and PsiQuantum. Buyers hearing quantum pitches now get a government check of six designs against a 2033 goal of a machine worth more than it costs.
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Quantinuum's Helios-1 kept useful output in error-correction circuits of up to 91 data qubits, a Julich preprint benchmarking 10 processors found. Its benchmark needed only 50 runs per circuit to detect gains, a cheap check before committing to a full error-correction experiment.
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Kyndryl's survey of 2,000 senior IT decision-makers found 10% using agentic AI to modernize legacy systems. Read alongside a former IBM strategist's warning about compute bills, the evidence favors agents that map old systems over agents that rewrite them.
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IBM's torch-spyre team made the Spyre inference accelerator a native PyTorch device on PrivateUse1, the allocator, streams and Inductor. Teams on IBM Z, LinuxONE and Power can reach the card from ordinary eager and compiled PyTorch code through one launch path.
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Caltech and University of Washington physicists simulated a particle collision on a 104-qubit IBM chip using a more efficient way to prepare wavepackets. The test used a simplified one-dimensional theory, so it shows the preparation step that had blocked such runs now fits on current hardware for toy models.
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