Gates warns AI will chew through jobs
Software king of the world and sworn enemy of the mosquito, Sir Bill Gates thinks…
Qualcomm gives Mojo away to loosen Nvidia’s grip
Qualcomm has open-sourced Mojo as part of a cunning plan to loosen Nvidia’s grip on…
OpenAI’s Jalapeño benchmarks beat Nvidia GB300
OpenAI has published its own Jalapeño benchmark numbers, claiming its 700W inference ASIC can outpace Nvidia’s flagship GB300 systems. According to Tom’s Hardware, OpenAI arrived at Hot Chips with benchmark…
OpenAI’s Jalapeño benchmarks beat Nvidia GB300
OpenAI has published its own Jalapeño benchmark numbers, claiming its 700W inference ASIC can outpace…
Chinese memory firms want Apple bragging rights
Chinese memory outfits CXMT and YMTC want the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s badge without the…
Apple stuffs more AI into the Mac mini
After covering up the fact that it was arriving late to the AI party, the…
Perplexity and Nvidia push local AI boxes
Perplexity and Nvidia have launched Portable Computer, a local-first AI agent that runs on Linux…
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News
OpenAI’s Jalapeño benchmarks beat Nvidia GB300
OpenAI has published its own Jalapeño benchmark numbers, claiming its 700W inference ASIC can outpace Nvidia’s flagship GB300 systems. According to Tom’s Hardware, OpenAI arrived at Hot Chips with benchmark…
Chinese memory firms want Apple bragging rights
Chinese memory outfits CXMT and YMTC want the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s badge without the…
Apple stuffs more AI into the Mac mini
After covering up the fact that it was arriving late to the AI party, the…
Graphics
16GB GPUs still rule Mindfactory
German GPU buyers are still paying through the nose for 16GB cards rather than slumming…
Zotac celebrates 20 years with limited Geforce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC edition
Zotac is marking its 20th anniversary with a limited-edition version of its Geforce RTX 5080…
Nvidia turning loans into AI leverage
Nvidia is turning chip finance into another weapon as lenders queue up to bankroll the AI gold rush. According to the Financial Times, when Nvidia first lent big sums to…
Mobiles
Apple needed its App store monopoly
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has finally hinted that its magic money machine works best when it is an evil monopoly. For years, the Tame Apple Press has insisted that…
Apple’s late foldable hits more problems
The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple’s first foldable iPhone, is folding hardest in the production schedule.…
Google’s 2nm Pixel fantasy goes splat
Google’s Tensor G6 has turned out to be 3nm after all, spoiling a perfectly good…
PC Hardware
Apple stuffs more AI into the Mac mini
After covering up the fact that it was arriving late to the AI party, the…
Qualcomm gives Mojo away to loosen Nvidia’s grip
Qualcomm has open-sourced Mojo as part of a cunning plan to loosen Nvidia’s grip on…
Chinese memory firms want Apple bragging rights
Chinese memory outfits CXMT and YMTC want the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s badge without the bother of supplying it at scale. CXMT and YMTC have little interest in becoming major…
AI
OpenAI’s Jalapeño benchmarks beat Nvidia GB300
OpenAI has published its own Jalapeño benchmark numbers, claiming its 700W inference ASIC can outpace Nvidia’s flagship GB300 systems. According to Tom’s Hardware, OpenAI arrived at Hot Chips with benchmark…
Taiwan indicts nine over AI server smuggling
Taiwanese prosecutors say Nvidia and Supermicro staff helped forge paperwork to sneak restricted AI servers…
Anthropic’s pricey AI hits a wall
Anthropic’s glorous plan to flog its cleverest AI at premium prices is wobbling as US…
Gaming
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 August 20 Update 2.0 comes with major visual overhaul, Cost of Hope expansion in tow
GSC Game World has announced that Update 2.0 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl will…
Intel eyes cheaper handheld chips
Intel might be lining up cheaper Panther Lake chips for gaming handhelds, rather than leaving…
SimCity 4 mod fixes 23-year commuter curse
SimCity 4’s mighty Network Addon Mod has finally squashed a 23-year transport bug with its version 50 release. According to PCGamesN, the SimCity 4 Network Addon Mod, known to players…
Automotive
RAMageddon increases car prices
RAMageddon is threatening to shove car prices higher as AI outfits gobble up the memory chips needed by modern motors. According to The Atlantic cars now need microprocessors and RAM…
BMW enshittifies its cars with adverts
The maker of expensive cars for twats and travelling salesmen, BMW, has enshittified its motors…
Tesla profits skid despite record deliveries
Tesla’s second-quarter profits dropped unexpectedly after Elon Musk’s electric car circus used discounts to goose…
Data center
Vera Rubin makes Blackwell look pricey
Nvidia claims Vera Rubin can churn agentic AI tokens far more cheaply than Blackwell. Writing…
IBM stuffs Arm into Z core
Biggish Blue has bolted Arm into its big iron without turning its mainframe into a…
Perplexity and Nvidia push local AI boxes
Perplexity and Nvidia have launched Portable Computer, a local-first AI agent that runs on Linux hardware. According to VentureBeat, Perplexity and Nvidia are pitching it as a way to run AI…
Smart devices
Amazon jacks up gadget prices
Amazon has whacked up gadget prices by as much as 60 per cent, blaming pricey memory chips. According to Techcrunch the online bazaar raised prices across Fire TVs, Echo speakers,…
Apple scores a privacy own goal
Just when Meta is in a pile of problems over its spy glasses, the fruity…
US bans robot imports
The US government has decided foreign robots are too risky and added foreign-made advanced robots…
Network
Bosses turn networks into treacle
UK tech leaders are being buried under supplier sprawl, broken networks and bosses who still…
Lumilens bags a fat AI networking round
Lumilens has raised more than $700 million with a pitch about replacing knackered copper cabling…
Argo plugs satellite cyber holes
Atalanta reckons its Argo tool can spot cyber holes before state-backed hackers turn infrastructure into a smoking crater. Russia’s satellite hack on the day it invaded Ukraine in 2022 knocked…