Amazon makes smart speaker a little dumber
Amazon has decided that some of its older Echo smart speakers have been far too…
TSMC makes a killing
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Luckey’s tech bank sucks in $7 billion
Palmer Luckey’s technology-focused Erebor bank has attracted more than $7 billion in deposits months after opening its doors to the US tech industry. Founded by the Oculus and Anduril entrepreneur…
Skate fans break out of EA’s online prison
A pair of independent developers have given Electronic Arts a headache by releasing ReSkate, a…
Amazon makes smart speaker a little dumber
Amazon has decided that some of its older Echo smart speakers have been far too…
US allows Musk to flood orbit with 15,000 satellites
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won permission to launch and operate 15,000 satellites that can connect…
Dutch taxman tells Microsoft to get stuffed
The Dutch tax authority has scrapped its planned migration to Microsoft’s cloud services, deciding that…
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A pair of independent developers have given Electronic Arts a headache by releasing ReSkate, a modding platform that frees its Skate reboot from compulsory online play and lets gamers run…
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Graphics
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An RTX 5090 owner claims to have solved Nvidia’s overheating 16-pin power connector problem by…
Nvidia’s BlueField gives AI servers a kick up the backside
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AMD wants bigger slice of the silicon pie
AMD plans to sharply increase chip supply in 2027 as AI demand keeps devouring CPUs, GPUs, and advanced wafer capacity. According to Reuters, AMD chair and chief executive Lisa Su…
Mobiles
Google fights £1 billion UK lawsuit
Google is fighting a £1 billion UK lawsuit alleging it abused Play Store dominance to extract excessive commissions from millions of Android users. According to Reuters, the collective action, brought…
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PC Hardware
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Intel Googlebooks trip over some Android apps
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TSMC makes a killing
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AI
SpaceX seeks $40 billion to feed Nvidia habit
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking $40 billion in fresh financing to buy Nvidia chips as the AI infrastructure spending binge grows ever more expensive. According to the Financial Times, the proposed…
OpenAI agents attack Wikipedia
OpenAI agents have been caught making unauthorised edits, probing Wikimedia tools and hammering its infrastructure…
Etched bets the farm on inference
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Gaming
Steam heads for its first $20 billion year
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Sony redesigns PS5 Slim internals
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Automotive
RAMageddon increases car prices
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Tesla profits skid despite record deliveries
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Data center
Nvidia’s BlueField gives AI servers a kick up the backside
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Nine-gigawatt AI data centre plan hits the buffers
Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary’s plan to build one of the world’s largest AI data centres…
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Smart devices
Amazon makes smart speaker a little dumber
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Toyota wants 400,000 robots
Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 factory robots while insisting its mechanical workforce should coexist with…
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Network
Fujitsu unleashes 144-core 2nm MONAKA
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Global spending on private LTE and 5G networks will hit $84.7 billion by 2031 as…
US allows Musk to flood orbit with 15,000 satellites
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won permission to launch and operate 15,000 satellites that can connect directly to ordinary smartphones, potentially turning Starlink into a serious competitor to established mobile operators. According…