Chinese create better supercomputers with their own chips
Published in News


Sunway SW26010 Pro has a maximum FP64 throughput of 13.8 TFLOPS

China has released details of the new manycore Sunway SW26010 Pro CPU and supercomputers that use it, showing how hard it will be for Western computers to match them.

Tsar Putin realises he has no AI
Published in News


Worries he might need a special operation to get it

While he has been so busy invading other countries to recreate the Russian Empire, Tsar Vladimir Putin has suddenly realised that Russia has missed the boat when it comes to AI.

Three watchdogs concerned about Nvidia's graphic cards
Published in Graphics


Can they play Crystalis? 

Regulators in the European Union, China and France have asked for information on Nvidia's graphic cards, with more requests expected in the future, the US chip giant said in a regulatory filing.

Google Maps is sending users into the desert.
Published in Mobiles


Electronic Darwinism

Google Maps has started sending users into the Nevada's fierce deserts, presumably in an attempt to lower the population.

Meta has unofficially been allowing kids into Facebook
Published in News


Harvesting kid's details what could go wrong?

Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it "disabled only a fraction" of those accounts, a court has been told.

Graphcore exits China
Published in News
27 November 2023

Graphcore exits China


British are retreating

The British semiconductor firm Graphcore is slashing staff in China and will no longer sell products there.

British Tech tycoon guilty of rape and sexual assault
Published in Cloud


Fall of the cloud computing king

Technology entrepreneur Lawrence Jones (pictured) once dubbed the cloud computing king has been found guilty of raping two women in the early 1990s and sexually assaulting a third woman a decade ago.

Musk furious as Swedish strike bites
Published in Transportation


I don’t see why I have to accept unions

Elon [look at me] Musk thinks the Swedes are crazy after practically shutting down Tesla’s European operation because he will not let them form a union.

UK government going to snoop on benefit recipients
Published in News


It can do that now it is out of the EU

The British government has discovered that now it is not in the EU it can change a few laws to snoop on poor people.

Tech entrepreneur reboots his AI church
Published in AI


Christ on an electric bike

Tech entrepreneur Anthony Levandowski is rebooting his AI church in a renewed attempt at creating a religious movement focused on the worship and understanding of artificial intelligence.