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An Entrepreneur contributor argues that the gap between founders who get useful AI output and those who get 'AI slop' comes down to prompting technique rather than which AI subscription or tool they use. The piece, citing IBM research on prompt structure, says effective prompts need context, audience details, examples and a clearly defined task, and should be refined iteratively across multiple rounds.
A Kyndryl survey of 2,000 senior IT decision-makers found that just 10% are applying agentic AI to modernization efforts, even as decades-long attempts to update legacy systems continue to fall short. The survey found only about half of companies modernizing report improved IT operations, less than half see innovation gains, and nearly one in five say the benefits were limited or unclear, with many projects running late and over budget.
IBM and Red Hat announced that their AI-driven Lightwell initiative has discovered and helped fix more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The disclosure coincides with the general availability launch of Lightwell Clearinghouse, an enterprise service letting customers submit open-source dependencies for prioritized review and remediation.
Google Japan has revealed the Gboard Conveyor Belt Version, a novelty keyboard with four conveyor belts of 29 keys each that move toward the typist's fingers to reduce hand and arm movement. The design is part of Google Japan's annual October 1 tradition of releasing joke keyboard concepts, and the team says it may explore color variants, faster models, and a compact mobile version. Build plans, including 3D-printable STL files and KiCad schematics, have been published on GitHub.
Thomas Watson Jr., then IBM's chairman, wrote an internal memo in 1963 questioning how his company had lost industry leadership to Control Data Corporation, a firm he noted had only 34 employees, including its janitor. The memo, later nicknamed 'The Janitor Memo,' reflected concern over the competitive threat posed by CDC's new 6600 computer.
Reports indicate Red Hat employees' internal badges and identifiers are being switched to IBM branding, with one employee, Thomas Wilson, publicly noting the change. Separately, departures are being reported at Red Hat and IBM subsidiary Nordcloud, some described as voluntary exits with severance, alongside commentary that IBM's quantum computing teams may be restructured similarly to how Kyndryl was spun off.
An opinion piece for Entrepreneur argues that most market-leading companies eventually decline, citing IBM, Blockbuster and Motorola as examples of firms that lost dominance by failing to adapt to shifts in technology and markets. The author, drawing an analogy to tennis champions like Djokovic and Federer, says reaching the top requires a resilient, growth-oriented team with ambitious goals, while staying there demands continuous execution and self-assessment.
UnoDOS is a graphical operating system family built from one shared source tree, originally a 16-bit real-mode GUI OS written in x86 assembly that fit a kernel, window manager, two filesystems and applications onto a single floppy disk. It has since been ported to home computers, consoles, handhelds, single-board computers and a phone, with its flagship version, pc64, running bare-metal on modern 64-bit PCs with its own drivers, network stack, browser, office suite, compiler and hypervisor. Prebuilt images and a verification ledger (PLATFORMS.md) documenting real-hardware versus emulator-only support are published on the project's releases page.
A developer has built a web-based emulator that recreates the IBM 1620 Model 2, a 1960s transistorized decimal computer originally aimed at scientific and engineering users. The project also includes IPL-V, the 1963 operating environment originally used on the machine, letting users run period software directly in a browser.
NASA and IBM Research have jointly released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI system pretrained on SomBench, a dataset of nearly two million co-registered lunar data bundles across 11 modalities. The model fuses imagery, topography, mineralogy, radar, gravity and other planetary datasets to help scientists analyze the Moon's surface, with USRA scientist Rachel Slank contributing planetary science expertise during development.
In a Fortune commentary, Zocdoc founder and CEO Oliver Kharraz argues that Walmart's shuttered clinic network and IBM's sold-off Watson Health division both collapsed because they treated healthcare as a technology problem rather than a tangle of misaligned incentives and regulations. Walmart closed 51 clinics and its virtual care unit in 2024 after reimbursement and cost pressures made the business unsustainable, while IBM sold most of Watson Health in 2022 after sinking roughly $4 billion into it.
Computer Reset, a used-computer store and warehouse founded by Richard Byron in the mid-1980s in northeast Dallas, was a major source for vintage IBM hardware including PCjr units and PS/2 systems. The business shut down in 2019, and its reputation grew afterward when several well-known YouTubers filmed videos exploring its overstuffed inventory.