Cisco gets a rare win
Published in News


AI buzz and solid networking sales boost forecast

Cisco Systems has posted better-than-expected profit and sales in its fiscal third quarter.

Nintendo officially confirms Switch 2 specifications
Published in Gaming


Nvidia T239 SoC, 12GB of LPDDR5X, and 256GB of UFS storage

Nvidia has now officially released more detailed specifications for its upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 console that should launch on June 5th. The new details confirm earlier leaks about the Nvidia T239 SoC, including the CPU and the GPU part.

Chipzilla’s big 18A gamble not paying off yet
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Intel’s future pinned to a node no one’s buying

Troubled Chipzilla’s much-hyped 18A manufacturing node, the supposed centrepiece of its comeback plan, is currently about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit.

Kingston releases FURY Renegade G5 M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 5 SSD
Published in PC Hardware


Hitting 14,800MB/s

Kingston has officially released its new FURY Renegade G5 PCIe Gen 5 SSD, coming in capacities of up to 4TB and reaching sequential read and write speeds of up to 14,800 and 14,000MB/s.

Musk’s Grok turns into a broken record about South Africa
Published in AI


Sees “white genocide” everywhere even in baseball

Elon Musk’s pet AI Grok appears to have gone completely off its trolley, hijacking conversations on X (formerly Twitter) to bang on about alleged "white genocide" in South Africa, no matter what anyone asks it.

ASUS goes all-white with Geforce RTX 50 series
Published in Graphics


Full lineup, including ROG Astral RTX 5090 and ROG Astral RTX 5080

ASUS has announced its new Geforce RTX 50 series White Editions, giving its current lineup a fresh coat of white color. The lineup includes RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 series graphics cards, as well as some other products like PC cases and PSUs to match the color scheme.

Hygon ditches AMD Zen to forge 128-core monster
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Rattling EPYC and Xeon cages

China’s Hygon has  delivered a monster CPU that might give Troubled Chipzilla’s Xeon and AMD’s EPYC a right scare.

AMD's next-gen UDNA GPU leaks
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New GFX13 architecture sneaks into the spotlight

AMD’s next-gen GPU architecture has leaked all over the web, and it looks like the chipmaker is ready to ditch RDNA for something it is either calling UDNA or RDNA 5, depending on which way the wind is blowing.

Torvalds ditches soft keyboard for clackety clack
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Linux boss blames autocorrect for typo mayhem

IT's Mr Sweary, Linus Torvalds has binned his low-profile keyboard and rejoined the noisy mechanical brigade.

Google increases Android's anti-theft walls
Published in Mobiles


Factory Reset Protection gets some teeth

Google is giving Android’s Factory Reset Protection (FRP) a badly needed kick up the backside, promising to make stolen phones even more useless than before by spotting setup wizard dodges and forcing a second reset until ownership is nailed down.