Musk’s satellite restrictions leave Ukraine struggling to stop Russian drones
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Elon Musk’s SpaceX of restricting military satellite communications, leaving…
Microsoft’s cloud empire falls
The software king of the world, Microsoft, has brought large chunks of the world’s business…
Hacker turns Nvidia’s crippled mining GPU into an A100 monster
A hardware hacker has turned one of Nvidia’s deliberately crippled cryptocurrency mining cards into a powerful datacentre accelerator, exposing embarrassing secrets about the chipmaker’s product restrictions. The researcher, known as…
Hacker turns Nvidia’s crippled mining GPU into an A100 monster
A hardware hacker has turned one of Nvidia’s deliberately crippled cryptocurrency mining cards into a…
United Airlines tells AI travel agents to sod off
United Airlines has decided that artificial intelligence has no business booking flights for its passengers…
C++26 faces mutiny as its creator attacks new security rules
The next version of the C++ programming language may miss its release date after a…
AMD finally stops Radeon drivers hammering SSDs
AMD has released a new Radeon graphics driver to stop its software from bombarding system…
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United Airlines tells AI travel agents to sod off
United Airlines has decided that artificial intelligence has no business booking flights for its passengers and is shutting out third-party AI travel agents. According to TechCrunch, the American airline announced…
C++26 faces mutiny as its creator attacks new security rules
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Graphics
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ASRock has released another firmware update for its Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards after…
Blender gives GPUs more useful work
Blender 5.3 has arrived with native Gaussian splat support and a switch to Vulkan as…
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A hardware hacker has turned one of Nvidia’s deliberately crippled cryptocurrency mining cards into a powerful datacentre accelerator, exposing embarrassing secrets about the chipmaker’s product restrictions. The researcher, known as…
Mobiles
Motorola wants $1,600 for its flagship comeback
Motorola has unveiled its Signature 27 flagship, after deciding that the best way to get noticed again is to charge $1,599.99. For that money, buyers get Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite…
Apple influencer blames customers for faulty iPhone Duo
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Apple’s folding iPhone is a cracked lemon
After years of faffing around with a late-arriving product, Apple’s new folding iPhone Duo has…
PC Hardware
Seagate brings hybrid drives out of retirement
Seagate has resurrected hybrid storage with its FireCuda Forge which crosses a mechanical hard drive…
Japan upgrades quantum machine and gives it real work
Quantinuum and Japan’s RIKEN have upgraded the Reimei quantum computer to an H2 system and…
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AI
United Airlines tells AI travel agents to sod off
United Airlines has decided that artificial intelligence has no business booking flights for its passengers and is shutting out third-party AI travel agents. According to TechCrunch, the American airline announced…
Google gives Nvidia another reason to lose sleep
Google has expanded its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit family with two specialised systems, giving Nvidia…
HP wants $132,000 for a desktop
The maker of expensive printer ink, HP has started flogging a desktop workstation for $132,000,…
Gaming
Sony gives PlayStation streaming on PC the chop
Sony has decided that letting PC owners stream PlayStation games is a waste of its…
Nintendo sends 144 GitHub projects to the executioner
Former playing-card maker Nintendo’s legal attack dogs have persuaded GitHub to remove 144 repositories containing…
Valve tells Steam Deck owners how badly their games run
Valve has decided that Steam Deck owners deserve to know how well their games run and has started publishing real-world frame rates for thousands of titles. The gaming outfit announced…
Automotive
Uber plans to unleash Chinese robotaxis on London
Uber has teamed up with Chinese autonomous-vehicle outfit Pony.ai to bring robotaxis to London, with road testing set to begin within weeks. According to TechCrunch. the companies intend to put…
RAMageddon increases car prices
RAMageddon is threatening to shove car prices higher as AI outfits gobble up the memory…
BMW enshittifies its cars with adverts
The maker of expensive cars for twats and travelling salesmen, BMW, has enshittified its motors…
Data center
Google adds AMD muscle to its TPU challenge
Google has unveiled two more TPU systems, pairing one with AMD processors and cramming two…
Nvidia’s financing merry-go-round is not a Ponzi scheme
Technology investor Gene Munster has defended Nvidia’s customer financing arrangements, arguing that the chipmaker stands…
Norway puts data centre power grab on hold
Norway’s grid operator has paused new data centre capacity reservations while it develops rules for connecting large, fast-changing electricity loads safely. According to Data Center Dynamics, the measure effectively stalls…
Smart devices
Amazon gives household surveillance propellers
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Apple’s OLED iPad mini gets a maxi price
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has unveiled an OLED iPad mini with an A20 Pro…
TomTom navigates another 200 staff towards the exit
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Network
Microsoft’s cloud empire falls
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Cisco decides its products should work together
Cisco will require new products to integrate with its Cloud Control management platform from 2027,…
Musk’s satellite restrictions leave Ukraine struggling to stop Russian drones
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Elon Musk’s SpaceX of restricting military satellite communications, leaving Ukrainian interceptor drones struggling to stop Russian attacks. Zelenskyy claims that Starshield, the military version…