Blackstone's AI gold rush
Mega-rich firm is cashing in on the tech revolution
Blackstone, the world's biggest private equity firm, is cashing in on the artificial intelligence craze. After snapping up data centre operator QTS for $10 billion in 2021, the firm is pumping money into one of the top landlords for tech titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.
How AMD might have helped Nvidia
RX 7600 XT repeats one of Nvidia’s mistakes
AMD has launched a new graphics card that could end up making Nvidia’s offerings look good.
IBM remote workers told to find an office or leave
Our managers are lonely
IBM suits has given a harsh warning to those managers still working from home: move near an office or find another job.
Japan abandons ancient traditions
Ditches floppy disks and CD-ROMs
Japan is planning to bin floppy disks and CD-ROMs, which until now were needed for sending some official papers to the government.
NMSU shuts down ancient OS/2 archive
End of a systems error
US uni NMSU will close its Hobbes OS/2 Archive on April 15, 2024.
Musk finds a human willing to trust him with their brain
Who would have thunk it
Tech tycoon Elon [look at me] Musk says his Neuralink firm has stuck one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time.
Apple sticks two fingers up at the EU
Firefox fuming
Apple's new rule changes in the EU mean browsers like Firefox can finally ditch Safari's engine on iOS. But a big cheese in the Mozzarella Foundation is Mozilla's Damiano DeMonte. He's "gutted" with the way things turned out.
Microsoft did not kill Unix
It was suicide
IT pundit Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says it was not Microsoft’s evil business deals of the 1990s that killed off Unix but the Unix companies themselves.
Cloudy with a chance of rip-off
Ex-geek warns cloud could go the same way as mainframes
A former software engineer has warned that cloud setups could end up the same way as the old mainframes,
London desperately tries to claw back Brexit cash
Hundreds of thousands of EU drivers have been stung by hefty fines for driving in London's Ulez zone, thanks to a sneaky scheme by Transport for London (TfL).