Microsoft waves white flag in console wars
Sony wins
For two decades, Sony and Microsoft waged a relentless console war, while Nintendo lurked as a regional power, occasionally shaking up the battlefield. Sony dominated nearly every campaign. And now, Vole has officially surrendered.
HP customers face 15-minute call wait
Tech giant pushes online support
The maker of printer ink, which is about as expensive as racehorse sperm, has quietly introduced a 15-minute minimum wait time for consumer PC and print customers who attempt to phone its call centre for support.
AI shocks scientists with its revolutionary wireless chip designs
Looked strange at first but worked pretty well
AI has stunned researchers by emerging from a smoke filled lab having designed its own complex wireless chips in hours - which would take human engineers weeks.
Samsung ditches its own memory in Galaxy S25
Gone to Micron
Samsung has stunned the tech world by abandoning its own DRAM and storage chips in the Galaxy S25 series, instead opting for components from US rival Micron.
China's tech giants shrug off US restrictions
Dependence on US chips and operating systems rapidly decreasing
It would appear that US sanctions have done the opposite of what they were supposed to -- the have sped up China's chip and operating system development leading it to be less dependant on the US tech oligarchs.
OpenAI growing like topsy
400M weekly active users, doubles enterprise customer base
OpenAI is riding a tidal wave of growth, with ChatGPT and its other AI products now boasting over 400 million active weekly users—a 33 per cent jump since December.
Nearly a third of AI chatbots share data
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.
NSF fires 168 staff in shock move
Trump purge of science and public IT research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has axed 168 employees in a brutal cost-cutting move following President Trump’s executive order to reduce the federal workforce.
Jim Keller blasts Intel sale rumours
It’s a fire sale
The troubled Chipzilla’s golden days might be behind it, but selling the company or its divisions isn’t the way forward—it’s a reckless fire sale, says legendary chip designer Jim Keller.
AI can't code
OpenAI research exposes the limits of artificial engineers.
Despite all the hype, AI is nowhere near replacing human software engineers, according to OpenAI’s research.