Intel faces battle with foreign-backed patent trolls
Published in News


Gaming the system

Chipzilla is entangled in “patent troll” legal cases with the trolls backed by third-party financiers or owned by hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other sophisticated investors.

SoftBank develops AI to make angry customers sound calmer
Published in AI


Taking the stress of call centre operators with an AI shield

SoftBank has developed AI voice-conversion technology to reduce call centre operators' psychological stress by altering the voices of angry customers to sound calmer.

Dutch spooks warn about Fortinet VPN hack
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Some users might still be vulnerable

Cyber attackers, believed to be working for the Chinese government, breached over 20,000 VPN devices sold by Fortinet by exploiting a critical vulnerability that remained undisclosed by the company for a fortnight post-repair.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 isn't 309GB
Published in Gaming


… well not typically

Activision has clarified that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 isn't 309GB after all – or at least, you can download the guts of it for less.

Adobe promises that creative genius will belong to users after all
Published in AI


You have not sold your soul

Following a huge backlash, Adobe made it crystal clear in their latest blog post that they're not going to use your creative masterpieces to train their AI.

Stability AI messed up its own AI again
Published in AI


Keeping US puritans happy creates monsters 

Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion 3 Medium has been borked by its desperate attempt to keep US puritans happy.

MediaTek working on ARM for Windows SoC
Published in PC Hardware


Will push it as soon as Qualcomm's exclusivity deal expires

According to a report from Reuters, MediaTek is allegedly working hard on an ARM-based SoC for Windows-based laptops and could launch it as soon as Qualcomm's exclusivity deal expires.

TUXEDO working on Qualcomm Snapdragon X-based Linux laptop
Published in PC Hardware


Neat laptop paired up with Snapdragon X Elite SoC

TUXEDO Computers aims to bring Qualcomm Snapdragon X SoCs to the Linux platform and has recently unveiled such a laptop.

ASRock launches Radeon RX 6500 XT with 8GB of memory
Published in Graphics


Blast from the past gets more VRAM

ASRock has launched a new version of the Radeon RX 6500 XT that will feature 8GB of VRAM and be a part of its Phantom Gaming lineup.

Arm and Qualcomm dispute could derail AI-powered PCs
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Goes to court in December

According to a Reuters report, a two-year-long legal battle is threatening the debut of a new wave of AI-driven personal computers. Arm and Qualcomm are at the heart of this dispute.