Export controls are fuelling China’s AI boom

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has laid into the US government’s AI chip export bans, branding them “a failure” that’s doing the opposite of what Washington claims it wants.

Former Apple designer likely to cook up an expensive mystery box

OpenAI has confirmed it’s entering the hardware game, teaming up with former Job’s Mob design messiah Jony Ive to birth a new line of AI gadgets, though no one’s quite sure what they’ll do yet.

Blocking screenshots by default

Signal Messenger has fired a broadside at the software king of the world, Microsoft's new AI tool recall and is blocking its use by default. 

Dell AI Factory with Nvidia goes semantic and agentic

The Grey Box Shifter, Dell has teamed up with Nvidia to peddle the latest iteration of its AI in a box.

 
Tame Apple Press celebrates a ghost product while rivals deliver the goods

The Tame Apple Press has breathlessly hyped up a foldable device from Jobs’ Mob, promising an innovation that would once again change everything. Except there is no product, no launch, and no clarity on whether it is an iPad or a MacBook. The only thing Apple seems to have delivered is confusion and delay.

PC and data centre units safe as networking group faces chop

Troubled Chipzilla is planning to offload its network and edge (NEX) division, sources as CEO Lip-Bu Tan sharpens the knife and gets ready to slice off anything that doesn’t fit his “back to basics” mantra.

Forky’s Aisuru flexes digital muscle with record-baiting DDoS test shot

KrebsOnSecurity just took a hit from a 6.3 terabit per second DDoS blast, one of the largest ever recorded. That’s ten times bigger than the 2016 Mirai assault that left the site offline for days and forced Akamai to show it the door.

Mini-ITX and low-profile boards revive compact gaming hopes

Nvidia’s RTX 5060 isn’t fast, but it’s miserly on power which makes it perfect for Zotac’s latest party trick of cramming a full-fat RTX 5060  into cases barely bigger than a lunchbox.

RDNA 4 Navi 44 silicon gets its moment just in time for Nvidia’s 5060 Ti 

AMD has punched Nvidia in the mid-range with the new Radeon RX 9060 XT, the third sprog in its RX 9000-series family.

Custom AI ASICs set to hit hyperscale workloads 

MediaTek has buddied up with Nvidia in what it claims is a groundbreaking partnership to build tailor-made AI silicon that plugs neatly into the NVLink Fusion ecosystem.