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HP Inc. said Wednesday that its board unanimously appointed Emma Walmsley as chief executive officer, effective Jan. 4, 2027. She will succeed Bruce Broussard, who has been interim CEO since February 2026 and will become chair of the board the same day Walmsley starts, HP said in a newsroom release. Walmsley led GSK as CEO

A faster machine doesn’t always make a factory more productive. Output also depends on cost control, consistent quality and avoiding downtime, and new equipment only pays off when it fits the shop’s actual work. Manufacturers dealing with rising costs and shifting customer orders have to plan equipment purchases carefully. Research into manufacturing automation, maintenance costs

Starlink Mobile’s cell towers will run on Qualcomm silicon. SpaceX has selected Qualcomm’s Dragonwing cellular infrastructure platforms for the nationwide terrestrial 5G network it plans to build in the U.S., Qualcomm said Wednesday, with deployment set to begin in 2027 and tens of thousands of sites planned over the multiyear agreement. The announcement pairs Qualcomm’s

Conductor, the AI coding startup, announced it has been acquired by Meta. Conductor is one of many AI coding startups, giving developers a way to run teams of coding agents from their computer, mobile device, or in the cloud. The company announced in a blog post that it has been acquired by Meta. Unfortunately for

Debian has released a fix for the APT package manager, one that addresses a man-in-the-middle vulnerability. APT is the primary package manager, or way of installing packages, on Debian and various Debian-based distros, such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, Tuxedo OS, and hundreds more. As such, a vulnerability impacting APT has the potential to

Google is forcing schools’ hand, informing them that AI is now bundled with its other services, leaving them no way of opting out of AI without losing Google Search for students. AI is a controversial topic in education, with educators struggling to figure out how to integrate AI in a way that safeguards children and

The Fedora Project has released the latest version of the popular Linux distro, releasing Fedora 45 on November 3. Fedora is one of the most popular Linux distros and serves as the upstream base for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). While Fedora is technically a point release distro, as opposed to a rolling release distro

Up to €250 million in lost fourth-quarter sales is the price Ahold Delhaize now puts on the cybersecurity incident that forced it to take systems offline in October. The owner of Food Lion, Hannaford, Albert Heijn and Delhaize said in its third-quarter results Wednesday that the incident should cut Q4 net sales by €200 million

Canva is restructuring in a way that touches 1,271 people, or 22% of the company, merging teams, moving more product work to Sydney and ending some jobs outright. “This is without doubt the hardest moment in our thirteen-year history,” co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins wrote in a note to staff that Canva published on its

GIMP, the open source image editor frequently compared to Photoshop, has released version 3.2.8, bringing a number of bug fixes and security updates. GIMP is one of the most popular open source image editors, offering powerful features for users looking to move away from the Adobe ecosystem. The project has released the latest version, featuring