Google’s app store is a monopoly
Jury ruling might cause problems for Apple too
A jury in San Francisco unanimously found that Google violated California and federal antitrust laws through deals that stifled competition for its mobile app store.
Musk gutted when his AI turned out woke
Promises to lobotomise it to stop it from being intelligent
Elon [look at me] Musk was shocked to discover that his AI chatbot Grok was not churning out answers that would please his nutty right-wing target market.
Altman may not have been as beloved by staff as claimed
Don't cha know he's toxic
While history will paint Sam Altman as a victim after his firing and reinstatement at by the OpenAI board, there might have been a lot more going on behind the scenes.
Fired her because Facebook didn’t like what she wrote
A prominent disinformation scholar has accused Harvard University of firing her to butter up Facebook and its current and former executives.
IBM wants to use AI to upgrade COBOL
Before the COBOL cowboys die out
Biggish blue has a cunning plan to use AI to convert COBOL code into something a little more modern.
Apple spends a fortune to defeat a teen
Claimed Beeper Mini was serpent in walled garden
Apple has spent a week of its time and energy trying to undo the work of a 16-year-old high school student who reverse-engineered Apple's messaging protocol, launching an interoperable Android app called "Beeper Mini".
Doom turns 30
And the modern games industry began
The first “modern” computer game Doom is celebrating its 30th birthday today.
Big companies sign up to tackle Internet latency issues
L4S kills buffer bloat
Big companies are becoming more interested in the L4S stands for Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput which should speed up the Internet for most users.
Race is on for 2nm processing
Samsung sets 2025 for 2nm and 2027 for 1.4nm
The big foundries are starting to gear up for 2nm processing.
Fairphone 5 gets perfect score from iFixit
Could last ten years
The iFixit team pulled apart the newest Fairphone 5 smartphone and awarded its highest score for repairability: 10 out of 10.