Nvidia’s $100bn OpenAI pact stalls
Nvidia’s plan to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI to train and run its latest…
French say “non” to Zoom
Paris is pushing “sovereign” tech again, and this time it is aiming it straight at…
Apple loses power over its supply chain
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s inflated price margins are under threat as AI outfits are hoovering up parts with ridiculous chequebooks. Artificial intelligence companies have begun to outduel Job’s Mob…
Ryzen 5 9600X deaths pile up on ASRock boards
We are seeing a surge in reports of dead Ryzen 5 9600X CPUs, and it…
Intel’s 18A rumours meet a thermal brick wall
Intel has attracted plenty of chatter over the past few weeks, with talk that Apple…
DuckDuckGo users say AI no
DuckDuckGo asked its users how they felt about AI in search and the reply was…
One-third of US game workers report layoffs in two years
A new GDC survey paints a grim picture for gaming developer jobs, even as support…
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Ryzen 5 9600X deaths pile up on ASRock boards
We are seeing a surge in reports of dead Ryzen 5 9600X CPUs, and it is happening often enough to appear more than coincidental. In the past 30 days, there…
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Graphics
Nvidia wants “new capacity”
The US wants more chips made at home, Taiwan wants its crown jewels kept on…
Nvidia coughs up a Linux GeForce Now app
Nvidia has pushed its GeForce Now Linux client out the door at last. It was…
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We are seeing a surge in reports of dead Ryzen 5 9600X CPUs, and it is happening often enough to appear more than coincidental. In the past 30 days, there…
Mobiles
Intel’s 18A rumours meet a thermal brick wall
Intel has attracted plenty of chatter over the past few weeks, with talk that Apple could come crawling back for some M-series work, but now it appears that iPhone chips…
Apple loses power over its supply chain
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s inflated price margins are under threat as AI outfits are…
Samsung creates e-paper from plankton
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PC Hardware
Gigabyte snuggles up closer to AMD on AI
Gigabyte is leaning harder into the AI buzzword economy, announcing a deeper partnership with AMD…
Nvidia wants “new capacity”
The US wants more chips made at home, Taiwan wants its crown jewels kept on…
Intel’s 18A rumours meet a thermal brick wall
Intel has attracted plenty of chatter over the past few weeks, with talk that Apple could come crawling back for some M-series work, but now it appears that iPhone chips…
AI
DuckDuckGo users say AI no
DuckDuckGo asked its users how they felt about AI in search and the reply was a hard shove towards the exit. A built-in poll drew 175,354 votes and more than…
Apple loses power over its supply chain
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s inflated price margins are under threat as AI outfits are…
Nvidia’s $100bn OpenAI pact stalls
Nvidia’s plan to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI to train and run its latest…
Gaming
Nvidia coughs up a Linux GeForce Now app
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Valve dragged into £656m fight in Britain
Valve is heading for a nasty day out in a UK courtroom as London’s Competition…
One-third of US game workers report layoffs in two years
A new GDC survey paints a grim picture for gaming developer jobs, even as support for unionisation hardens. One third of US video game industry workers say they were laid…
Automotive
China’s humanoid robots are half as efficient
A top Chinese humanoid robot maker says its latest machines are only half as efficient as human workers. UBTech chief brand officer Michael Tam said the firm’s Walker S2 robots…
Cadence announces new Tensilica HiFi IQ DSP
Cadence announces new Tensilica HiFi iQ DSP Next-gen Voice AI and audio in the home…
Porsche’s Europe sales flip to electric as Stuttgart pushes plug-ins
Porsche has said that it sold more electrified cars in 2025 than pure combustion-engined models,…
Data center
Microsoft share price tanks and drags tech down with it
Software King of the World, Microsoft saw its value tank yesterday as investors took one…
AMD and Qualcomm sniff around Nvidia’s SOCAMM
AMD and Qualcomm have spotted Nvidia’s SOCAMM memory and decided it looks worth nicking for…
Microsoft locks in GPU cash before the bills land
Software King of the World Microsoft said it is “derisking” its AI build-out costs by contracting GPU capacity to customers before it splurges. It said Microsoft Cloud revenue topped $50bn…
Smart devices
Apple sued for nicking Camo webcam tech
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been dragged into court for allegedly lifting webcam smarts from a small developer and rigging iOS in its own favour. Reincubate has sued in…
Meta’s AI spending binge hits $135bn
Meta says capital expenditure could almost double to $135bn in 2026 as its AI spending…
China’s humanoid robots are half as efficient
A top Chinese humanoid robot maker says its latest machines are only half as efficient…
Network
Blue Origin fancies a crack at satellite internet with Terawave
Blue Origin has decided rockets are not enough and is now punting a satellite internet…
Cloudflare squares up to Italy over Piracy Shield fine
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is warning he could pull free cybersecurity support from Italy’s Milano-Cortina…
Germany wants its own Musk-free Starlink
Arms group Rheinmetall and satellite builder OHB are in talks to launch a joint bid for an Elon Musk-style broadband constellation for the German armed forces. People familiar with the…