Meta spied on Snatchat secrets

Tech titans at Meta have been caught with their hands in the digital cookie jar playing a sneaky game of peek-a-boo with Snapchat's secrets in a hush-hush op dubbed "Project Ghostbusters."

The perfect pint

The boffins at KU Leuven have cracked the code to a perfect pint, and it's all thanks to a bit of AI wizardry.

OK, Customs Declaration Service you are finally up

After years of faffing about, the tax bods at HMRC have finally set a date to ditch the dusty old CHIEF computer system.

Arm laptops to run Windows games 

Qualcomm has told the gathered crowds at the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC) that Windows games are expected to be compatible with its forthcoming Arm laptops. If this holds true, x86 emulation and gaming could operate flawlessly on these machines without porting.

Frozen in time

Former Microsoft coder Dave Plummer has revealed the story behind the Windows Format drive dialogue box, which is now 30 years old.

DoJ and Fanboys are at its Gates

Apple’s fruity empire is under siege as a barrage of lawsuits accuses the tech titan of strong-arming the smartphone realm. The legal onslaught, which piggybacks on a colossal antitrust case by the US Justice Department and a posse of 15 states, has seen at least three class actions lobbed at the iPhone maker since last Friday.

Ganging up to bring an end to tyranny

A coalition of tech giants, including Qualcomm, Google, and Intel, is set to challenge Nvidia's stronghold by targeting the software that binds developers to Nvidia's chips. They join a growing band of financiers and firms chipping away at Nvidia's AI supremacy.

Lucky no one was killed

In a shocking display of blind faith in Silicon Valley's shiny gadgets, a pair of Apple zealots nearly caused a fatal disaster, all thanks to the tech giant's "Findmy" fiasco.

Trimming a bit off the sides

The Tame Apple Press is apparently so desperate to whip up a frenzy over the next iPhone 16 that it is scratching its head to find something in the rumours that makes it sound interesting. Apparently, the big news is that Job’s Mob going to shave a bit off the bezel.

It turns out you can’t use your money to silence other people’s free speech

Elon [look at me] Musk's social media giant X has been left red-faced after a judge threw out its lawsuit against the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a group that's been shining a light on the dark corners of hate speech online.