France slaps Job’s Mob with €150m fine for privacy power play
Watchdog says App Tracking Transparency wasn’t as innocent as it looked
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s much-hyped App Tracking Transparency feature has earned it a €150 million slap on the wrist from France’s antitrust bloodhounds, who say it used privacy as a smokescreen to stiff the competition.
Micron jacks up the prices
Chipmaker banks on AI boom
Memory vendor Micron has confirmed what punters feared—memory is getting dearer, and it’s not stopping anytime soon.
China masks up in Taiwan chip heist scandal.
Beijing’s talent-thieving ops exposed by Taiwanese spooks
China has been playing dress-up in Taiwan’s tech scene, creating fake firms to lure semiconductor experts into helping bolster Beijing’s chip ambitions—without anyone knowing they were working for the mainland.
Chipzilla’s new boss admits it’s all a bit of a mess
Tan promises custom chips, cuts, and contrition at Intel Vision debut
Troubled Chipzilla’s newly appointed CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, took the stage in Las Vegas and confessed to a crowd of unimpressed attendees that the chipmaker had lost its way.
Torvalds fumes over "code turds" in Intel graphics code in Linux 6.15
Hdrtest backlash as DRM update hits kernel
IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds has blasted Troubled Chipzilla’s “hdrtest” feature.
Microsoft turns 50
Early insiders reflect on the messy genius behind Vole
The Software King of the World has officially hit the big five-oh, and the Seattle Times kicked off its retrospective with a perfect line: “Microsoft built things. It broke things.”
China leads humanoid robot charge.
Bets big on bipedal bots while the US flaps over security fears
Foxconn is getting first dibs on China’s humanoid robots, while the US dithers over national security fears and turf wars.
Samsung crams TikTok and AI into your fridge
Bespoke appliances now come with screens, sensors, and a heap of gimmickry
Samsung's AI-powered fridge now recognises your leftovers and plays TikTok while you grab a Coke — all for the price of a decent used car.
Reddit’s hype hangover begins to bite
AI buzz fades, Google shifts gears, and investors run for the exits
Reddit’s stock is spiralling, dropping another 10 per cent this week as the sugar high from its IPO wears off and harsh reality sets in.
Musk gives DOGE months to replace SSA code
Replace 60 million lines of COBOL--yeah right
Elon [Roman Salute] Musk is trying to modernise America’s Social Security Administration with a crack team of DOGE-linked technologists and a timeframe that makes actual engineers laugh out loud.
