AMD unleashes Spartan
Hopefully not headed for a glorious Thermopylae
AMD has lifted the kimono on its Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family -- the latest addition to the huge range of AMD Cost-Optimised FPGAs and adaptive SoCs.
Microsoft ditches Android apps
Windows 11 users left in the lurch
Microsoft has surprised punters by scrapping its support for Android apps on Windows 11, giving you only a year to play games on your Windows tablet before support officially runs out.
Car touchscreens need to be scrapped
EU watchdog barks
Euro NCAP, the car safety watchdog for Europe, is bringing in new rules for 2026 which mean that five vital tasks in every car will have to be done by real buttons instead of by a screen.
Facebook flops as it loses its backbone
Social media giant's sites crash for two to three hours
Facebook, Instagram, and Threads went offline for two hours today, leaving millions of users fuming.
Spyware spooks slapped
US Treasury hits snooping software bosses with sanctions
The US government has cracked down on the founder of the infamous spyware firm Intellexa and one of his cronies.
Apple crumbles in China crisis
iPhone sales plummet in China as Huawei soars
Fruity-cargo cult Apple is facing a nightmare in China, the world's second-biggest economy, where its iPhone sales have plunged 24 per cent in the first six weeks of 2024.
Intel's new chips are a shocker, says top leaker
Golden Pigs are flying
A top PC hardware leaker has spilt the beans on Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs, and there are some surprises.
Call to make paying of ransom demands illegal
Giving money to terrorists
The former boss of Britain's cyber security agency has urged the government to ban ransom payments to hackers, saying it is like giving money to terrorists.
Jobs' Mob finally faces the music
Fruity cargo-cult Apple has been slapped with a whopping £1.4 billion fine by the European Commission for squeezing out Spotify and other music streaming services.
AI bots will be a quarter of all searches by 2026
Beancounters at Gartner group have added up some numbers, divided by their shoe size, and predicted that search engines will lose a quarter of their users by 2026 as AI chatbots and other virtual agents steal their thunder.