Meta's Llama 4 stampede begins
Scout, Maverick and a monster called Behemoth
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled four new Llama models, describing it as a “milestone for Meta AI and open source” in a slick video posted to Instagram and Facebook this weekend.
Vole’s top trio roasted by its own bot
AI cracks jokes as Microsoft marks half a century
The Software King of the World Microsoft celebrated its 50th birthday by wheeling out all three of its CEOs for a bit of self-inflicted ridicule—with help from its AI lapdog, Copilot.
RTX 5090’s fiery flaw isn’t going anywhere
Nvidia’s melted mess torches another $2,900 GPU
Another RTX 5090 has gone up in smoke. Reddit user Roachard shared photos of a charred MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC, revealing a meltdown that took out both the graphics card and the power supply cables.
Samsung flogs 61 AI-infused tellies in Korea
“True AI TV “
Samsung has unveiled its 2025 TV lineup in South Korea, marking the beginning of what it calls the "True AI TV" era.
AI hype fizzles, but $644 billion is still on the table
Gartner says GenAI hits a “Trough of Disillusionment”
Despite a slew of gimmicky flops and creeping consumer scepticism, the generative AI bandwagon is still rolling along.
Vole punts pricey plastic brick for cloudy PCs
Dumb and dumber
The Software King of the World has officially released its Windows 365 Link—a dinky $349 (£349) black box that connects users to Windows Cloud PCs running in Azure.
iPhone starts installing random Chinese apps
iOS 18.4 "feature" shoves Chinese games onto iPhones without asking
Some iPhone users updating to iOS 18.4 are getting more than they bargained for—namely, surprise apps appearing on their Home Screens, including dubious-looking games like Cooking Mama and Squid Game knockoffs.
AMD torches Chipzilla in CPU sales again
Ryzen 9800X3D flies off shelves as Core Ultra 200S faceplants
AMD’s Ryzen army continues to stomp on Troubled Chipzilla’s silicon dreams, with March 2025 sales figures showing Ryzen chips practically owning Amazon’s CPU charts in the US.
Vole jams brakes on global server sprawl
Microsoft trims data centre ambitions
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, is quietly pulling back on data centre projects from Chicago to Jakarta as jitters grow over AI demand forecasts and the cost of building its cloudy empire.
Trump torpedoes Euro tech with fresh tariffs
Odd really, if it were not for the French, America would be speaking English
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump has fired another shot in his trade tantrum, this time slapping a 20 per cent tariff on tech imports from the EU—twice what the UK copped, and still lighter than the 32 per cent brick dropped on Switzerland.
