Crusades don’t end well for anyone

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is once again taking a strong stance against piracy, with their leader, Charles Rivkin, announcing at CinemaCon in Las Vegas that they are actively collaborating with Congress to tackle the issue of pirate websites.

Will tag people if it must

The government's splashing out more than €65 million to beef up facial recognition systems – we're talking vans that'll scan bustling high streets –in a bid to clamp down on shoplifting.

Sales spike

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TMSC) is laughing all the way to the bank, thanks to a bonanza in March that saw them rake in a hefty €5.6 billion, a 34.3 per cent jump from last year—talk about a growth spurt.

Government warned

The latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey for 2024 released by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has got the UK's knickers in a twist.

Google squares off against the AI competition

Google Cloud's thrown its hat into the ring with Axion, its first custom-built Arm brawler, promising a 30 per cent beefier performance than other Arm contenders from AWS and Microsoft. They're even boasting a 50 per cent muscle-up and 60 per cent more energy thriftiness than the X86 heavyweights.

Bubble bursts

Last year, Beeper ruffled Jobs' Mob's feathers by mimicking Android's coveted blue bubble chat. Not one to take it lying down, the tech titan clipped Beeper's wings. Yet, in a twist of fate, the plucky startup found a new nest in a €117 million deal with Automattic.

A new AI chip

Intel's Gaudi 3, the latest contender in the AI chip race, has hit the market, which it claims has twice the energy efficiency and a 1.5x faster AI model processing speed compared to Nvidia's H100 GPU.

2024 is the year apparently

The open, saucy world is all a flutter over the news that Linux’s market share of the desktop market is still over four per cent and will stay there.

It's not a phone, it's a mystery

Jony Ive, the design maestro behind Apple's shiny toys, and Sam Altman, the head honcho at OpenAI, are rumoured to be cooking up something big. They're not just tinkering in the shed; they're after a hefty €920 million to kickstart a company that'll churn out an AI-powered gizmo.

Trademark dispute 

Chipmaker Nvidia has been sued in a Texas federal court by Modulus Financial Engineering, a financial technology company, for Trademark Infringement over Nvidia's Modulus artificial intelligence software.