Apple hardware geniuses reversed the capacitor
Jobs’ Mob loved the smell of ozone in the morning
Engineers at the fruity cargo cult Apple were so clever that they installed the capacitors upside-down, but the Tame Apple Press did not notice.
US electronic prices to increase by $357
Trump’s plan to punish China
Donald Trump’s plan to tariff all foreign imports, especially goods from China, is projected to cause PC laptops to increase by an average of $357 in the US buyers.
Vole sees a boost in software gaming revenues
Hardware declines
Software King of the world, Microsoft, has released its first quarter 2025 earnings, revealing a significant rise in software gaming revenues despite declining Xbox hardware sales.
IBM shares fall on mixed results
Propped up by Red Hat
Biggish Blue shares dropped more than six per cent yesterday as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street were worried about the outfit’s mixed earnings report for the third quarter.
Flawed hardware is the silent security industry killer
Stanford University electrical engineer warns
Servers are packed with undetectable hardware flaws caused by the fact they have shrunk too much.
Google admits “hardware is hard”
But we will still make Pixels
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has moved to quash rumours that the search engine might be getting ready to stop making Pixels as sales slump.
Torvalds warns hardware management is about to get tricky
Blame Intel flaws and Moore's Law
IT's Mr Sweary and Linux founder Linus Torvalds has warned that managing software is about to become a lot more challenging.
Global notebook sales increase
At least a bit
Beancounters at Digitimes Research have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and decided that notebook sales have slightly increased.
Apple man in Tesla's self-driving car seat
Pete Bannon takes Keller's driving wheel
Now that Jim Keller left Tesla for Intel, the new chap in control of Tesla's self-driving car is former PA Semi and Apple apostate Pete Bannon.
AMD admits it is vulnerable to both versions of Spectre
So much for saying that the second one was low risk
After days of saying that there was a "near zero" chance of its chips being hit by the two Spectre bugs, AMD has finally admitted it's vulnerable to both of them.