Leans into defence and climate

UK’s AI flagship the Alan Turing Institute is binning nearly a quarter of its projects and staring down job cuts as it tries to morph into something vaguely resembling relevance amid criticism and seismic shifts in AI.

Voice assistant flounders while rivals sprint into the future

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s 13-year-old digital dunce Siri is proving more useless than ever, infuriating users while other tech firms surge ahead with bleeding-edge AI chatbots.

Chipmaker banks on AI boom 

Memory vendor Micron has confirmed what punters feared—memory is getting dearer, and it’s not stopping anytime soon.

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.

Getting more from it than ChatGPT

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has been playing with DeepSeek’s R1, and it appears to be impressed.

Ancient religious fears

OpenAI’s flagship AI assistant, ChatGPT, is finding itself constrained by its efforts to appease religious groups.

Anubis protects Xe Iaso's Git repository 

Software developer Xe Iaso has had enough of playing digital whack-a-mole with Amazon’s AI scrapers.

Cybersecurity plays catch-up

Cloud Engineers are the new AI overlords, leaving everyone else to squabble over second place, according to a new report.

Still living on a prayer

Once tasked with rescuing Troubled Chipzilla from its decade-long spiral into mediocrity, Pat [kicking] Gelsinger has now found his true calling.

It seems the intelligent thing to do

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has once again decided it knows better than its users. With its latest iOS 18.3.2 update, it’s quietly forcing Apple Intelligence back on—even if Apple fanboys told it to sod off.