Meta surrenders and gives Trump $25 million
Wrong to suspend his account over that little insurrection business
Social notworking outfit Meta has written a $25 million cheque to Donald Trump to apologise for freezing his account over the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol.
Tesla burns
While Musk courts the Far Right
It appears that Elon [Roman salute] Musk’s flirtation with the Far Right his hurting his bread-and-butter business, whose customers are generally liberals who like to knit their own yoghurt.
Intel did not know how to be foundry
Apple told TSMC
Fruity cargo cult Apple chose to cosy up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) over Chipzilla for its custom silicon because “Intel didn’t know how to be a foundry.”
Global network security market set to reach $38 billion by 2029
Growing like topsy
A newly published report from the Dell’Oro Group has projected that the global network security market, will expand to $38 billion by 2029.
DeepSeek has serious security issues
Might not be the OpenAI killer predicted
The Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) outfit DeepSeek might not be a quick and dirty OpenAI killer after all.
Microsoft reports strong Q2 earnings
Wall Street worried about Azure
Software King of the World Microsoft has released its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year. The company exceeded analyst expectations in key metrics despite a slowdown in cloud revenue growth.
Musk admits Tesla must replace HW3 self-driving computers
Not sure when or how
Swasticar maker CEO Elon [Roman Salute] Musk has finally conceded that the company must replace its HW3 self-driving computers in some of its cars, raising further questions about the company’s long-standing claims regarding its vehicles’ autonomy potential.
Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 launch marred by supply shortages
Scalpers cashing in
Significant stock shortages will mar the launch of Nvidia’s high-end RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards.
AMD’s FSR 4 exclusivity concerns older GPU owners
They will not get the latest performance enhancements
AMD has confirmed that its upcoming FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling technology will be exclusive to RDNA 4 GPUs, potentially leaving owners of older graphics cards without access to the latest performance enhancements.
Apple-designed chips are a hacker’s joy
SLAP and FLOP
The fruity cargo cult Apple’s overhyped homemade chips contain two “features” that allow hackers to access credit card information, locations, and other sensitive data from the Chrome and Safari browsers as they visit sites such as iCloud Calendar, Google Maps, and Proton Mail.