Boffins tell Big Tech to stop sniffing GPU fumes 

The people who build artificial intelligence have finally acknowledged have warned that endlessly increasing hardware for AI models is about as effective as solving climate change by buying more SUVs.

Because someone streamed football

Italy’s war on internet piracy has taken a sharp turn into the absurd, with the Court of Milan now ordering the world’s largest search engine to poison its own public DNS servers.

Researchers wondered if they had been wasting their lives

Google’s latest AI experiment has compressed a decade’s worth of painstaking microbiological research into a two-day thunk.

Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i

Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.

From Zen 1 to Zen 4

Google's security boffins have uncovered a gaping security hole affecting every Zen processor from Zen 1 to Zen 4.

Developers can't be trusted

Google's security gurus have taken to their blog to bemoan the plague of memory safety bugs, which are apparently "eroding trust in technology and costing billions."

Eight years

Qualcomm and Google are teaming up to extend the life of a smartphone to eight years.

Google Gemini does the most evil 

AI chatbots are harvesting user data at an alarming rate, with 30 per cent of them handing it over to third parties, including data brokers.

Can’t get the wood

The fruity cargo cult Apple’s overhyped Siri revamp has ground to a halt because of serious technical difficulties, raising doubts about the company’s ability to deliver on its grand promises.

AI scrapping

Reddit’s latest earnings report revealed that content licensing agreements with artificial intelligence firms Google and OpenAI contribute approximately 10 per cent of its revenue, amounting to around $130 million.