Virgin Media O2 pulls back on fibre
Virgin Media O2 is preparing thousands of job cuts and pulling back on fibre expansion…
GeForce shortages send dealers back to the RTX 3060
Graphics card manufacturers in China are telling distributors to focus on older GeForce cards as…
Samsung gives older chip customers an eviction date
Samsung Electronics plans to shut its remaining 8-inch foundry lines by the end of 2030, leaving customers hunting for scarce replacement capacity. According to The Elec, the company has notified…
T-Mobile offers 5Gbps fibre
T-Mobile is launching symmetrical 5Gbps home fibre for $90 (€80.24) a month, with a ten-year…
Intel slashes 18A costs
Intel says manufacturing costs for its 18A process have fallen approximately 40 per cent since…
SUSE discovers AI can write redundancy notices
Enterprise Linux supplier SUSE plans to cut approximately one in ten employees, with management citing…
Apple’s record profits show weaker margins
The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple celebrated its supposedly glorious financial year while warning that its…
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News
T-Mobile offers 5Gbps fibre
T-Mobile is launching symmetrical 5Gbps home fibre for $90 (€80.24) a month, with a ten-year price guarantee and the usual exclusions. The service becomes available on 3 November in selected US…
Intel slashes 18A costs
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SUSE discovers AI can write redundancy notices
Enterprise Linux supplier SUSE plans to cut approximately one in ten employees, with management citing…
Graphics
GPU prices go berserk with 35 per cent surge in three months
Graphics card prices have surged 35 per cent in just three months, leaving PC gamers…
Asus gives Radeon an Onimusha costume
Asus has announced an Onimusha-themed Radeon RX 9070 XT, combining its TUF Gaming hardware with…
GeForce shortages send dealers back to the RTX 3060
Graphics card manufacturers in China are telling distributors to focus on older GeForce cards as RTX 50 supply tightens and prices climb. According to VideoCardz, the future of PC gaming…
Mobiles
Apple influencer blames customers for faulty iPhone Duo
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s latest foldable phone disaster has taken an entertaining turn, with one of its biggest cheerleaders suggesting customers are deliberately breaking their expensive toys. For…
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…
Memory crunch sends phone makers to the scrapheap
Some Chinese phone makers are reportedly turning to memory chips recovered from discarded handsets as…
PC Hardware
SUSE discovers AI can write redundancy notices
Enterprise Linux supplier SUSE plans to cut approximately one in ten employees, with management citing…
Samsung gives older chip customers an eviction date
Samsung Electronics plans to shut its remaining 8-inch foundry lines by the end of 2030,…
Intel slashes 18A costs
Intel says manufacturing costs for its 18A process have fallen approximately 40 per cent since the first quarter, offering some relief for its battered foundry ambitions. According to New Electronics,…
AI
Google’s space AI writes a poem
The search giant Google has successfully operated an AI processor in orbit and received its first response from space, marking an early milestone in its ambitious plan to build data…
Google loses $500 billion as AI spending frightens investors
Google’s parent, Alphabet, saw its share price collapse to its largest-ever decline after disappointing advertising…
More cuts at Microsoft
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees as it squeezes costs while funding…
Gaming
Rockstar’s GTA nearly cooked after 13 year wait
Rockstar’s long road to GTA VI involved competing projects, an uncertain early direction and a…
US lawmaker wants publishers to stop killing purchased games
US Representative Ritchie Torres plans legislation that would force publishers to respect game ownership and…
Next Xbox could cost $1,800
The software king of the world, Microsoft’s next Xbox could cost as much as $1,800, apparently bringing premium gaming and financial distress into the same living room. According to Ars…
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
Samsung makes $80 billion profit
Samsung Electronics reported another strong quarter, with operating profit reaching about $80.5 billion as the…
Microsoft makes $92 billion but cannot build AI infrastructure fast enough
Software King of the World, Microsoft has reported quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion, but its…
STMicroelectronics looking at satellites and data centres
Franco-Italian semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics has reported a sharp improvement in quarterly profits as demand from AI data centres and satellite communications helps revive its business. The company announced third-quarter revenue…
Smart devices
Apple’s OLED iPad mini gets a maxi price
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has unveiled an OLED iPad mini with an A20 Pro processor and a $200 increase in its starting price. According to Neowin, the smallest tablet…
TomTom navigates another 200 staff towards the exit
TomTom is recalculating and cutting approximately 200 jobs worldwide as it reorganises its operations and…
Amazon makes smart speaker a little dumber
Amazon has decided that some of its older Echo smart speakers have been far too…
Network
Virgin Media O2 pulls back on fibre
Virgin Media O2 is preparing thousands of job cuts and pulling back on fibre expansion…
Chinese boffins push fibre to 3.2 petabits per second
Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs having demonstrated optical fibre transmission at 3.2…
T-Mobile offers 5Gbps fibre
T-Mobile is launching symmetrical 5Gbps home fibre for $90 (€80.24) a month, with a ten-year price guarantee and the usual exclusions. The service becomes available on 3 November in selected US…