Smartphones to outnumber humans
Chinese brands blitz old guard
By late 2027 or early 2028, the planet will have more smartphones than people, and the industry's old titans are watching the tide turn.
Trump caves on Nvidia crackdown after $1m Mar-a-Lago knees-up
China export curbs on H20 AI chips safe
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s White House has quietly shelved a looming crackdown on Nvidia’s H20 chip exports to China, just days after the GPU peddler’s CEO Jensen Huang dined at Mar-a-Lago — where seats went for a $1 million a head.
Stanford warns China’s AI chase is nearly neck-and-neck
US dominance wanes as Beijing’s benchmarks surge
The US might still be top of the AI table, but China is legging it fast, closing the gap in quality and influence, according to Stanford’s latest Artificial Intelligence Index.
iPhone starts installing random Chinese apps
iOS 18.4 "feature" shoves Chinese games onto iPhones without asking
Some iPhone users updating to iOS 18.4 are getting more than they bargained for—namely, surprise apps appearing on their Home Screens, including dubious-looking games like Cooking Mama and Squid Game knockoffs.
Trump slaps Job’s Mob with brutal tariffs
Looks the bromance is off
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump has slammed a monster 46 per cent tariff on regions key to the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s global production chain, driving up the price of iPhones, Macs, and just about everything else shiny and expensive.
China masks up in Taiwan chip heist scandal.
Beijing’s talent-thieving ops exposed by Taiwanese spooks
China has been playing dress-up in Taiwan’s tech scene, creating fake firms to lure semiconductor experts into helping bolster Beijing’s chip ambitions—without anyone knowing they were working for the mainland.
China leads humanoid robot charge.
Bets big on bipedal bots while the US flaps over security fears
Foxconn is getting first dibs on China’s humanoid robots, while the US dithers over national security fears and turf wars.
Trump blacklists more tech firms
Putting the screws on Intel, Nvidia, and other chipmakers
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s administration has dusted off its national security megaphone again and added another 80 companies and organisations to the US export blacklist.
China's army of tech engineers saving the country
US’s army of CEOs is not that useful
China’s army of engineers may be poised to give the US a costly wedgie in the tech arena.
Meta wanted to hand censorship keys to Chinese
You know censorship better than us
Meta was so desperate to get into China’s massive market that it was willing to hand over the censorship reins to the Chinese Communist Party and muzzle political dissenters, according to new whistleblower complaint.