PC and smartphone growth hits the skids
UBS and Gartner slash forecasts
Beancounters at UBS and Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reduced their PC and smartphone market forecasts, citing “mounting pressures from trade tariffs and broader macroeconomic uncertainties” that will hammer consumer demand through 2026.
EU slaps Apple and Meta with landmark DMA fines
Trump screams extortion
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been handed a €500 million ($570 million) slap by EU regulators, with Facebook flogger Meta coughing up €200 million, in the first real show of teeth under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.
Quantum messaging works over 254km
Didn’t need to freeze the quantum cats
A team of German boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs having sent the first-ever coherent quantum communications across 254 km of bog-standard telecoms fibre.
Chipzilla boosts Arrow Lake
Promises “free” gaming gains with 200S Boost profile
Troubled Chipzilla is shouting about Arrow Lake improvements, this time hawking a “free” update it claims will perk up gaming frame rates—if you're running the right kit and pray to the overclocking gods.
Samsung cuts corners on S25 FE
Lazy chip recycle
Samsung’s obsession with flogging dead horses continues with the Galaxy S25 FE limping out with the same Exynos 2400e processor found in last year’s S24 FE.
Zombie RX 6500 staggers into 2025
Reanimated Navi 24 silicon haunts budget builds like it’s 2022
Chinese outfit Zephyr has dug up a ghost from AMD’s bargain bin past—the Radeon RX 6500, a budget GPU that reaks of stale silicon and disapointment.
Intel's Nova Lake CPUs to tap Taiwan’s 2nm
18A in awkward limbo
Troubled Chipzilla is set to source the compute tiles for its next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUS from TSMC’s shiny new 2nm process, confirming what’s been murmured for months: its 18a node is not the chosen one yet.
Job’s Mob nudged for selling smoke as substance
You can't say something is intelligent when it isn't
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has quietly walked back its “available now” claim about its Apple Intelligence features after the National Advertising Division gave it a sharp nudge for being a bit too enthusiastic with the truth.
OpenAI eyes Chrome if regulators gut Google
All roads lead to Chrome
ChatGPT wouldn’t mind getting its paws on Chrome, if the courts end up prying it from Google’s iron grip.
Chipzilla’s axe is swinging again
Intel to slash 20 per cent of workforce in latest bloodbath
Troubled Chipzilla is back in the firing line, reportedly preparing to boot 20 per cent of its staff in what looks like the biggest cull since it last had a go in August.