Musk pins hopes on SMEs
Published in News
05 December 2023

Musk pins hopes on SMEs


Please give me all your money

After losing key advertisers like Apple, IBM and Disney with his superior management skills, Elon [look at me] Musk is trying to interest small to medium-sized businesses to advertise in his social notworking business X.

The GPU market is back from the dead
Published in News


Market returning to normal

Beancounters at Jon Peddie Research have added some numbers and divided by their collective shoe size and decided that the GPU market is starting to return to its former glories.

Russian and Chinese hackers attack UK’s Sellafield
Published in News


Just as well Russian and China have no ambitions 

The UK's most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China.

Windows “upgrades” printer to HP LaserJet M101-M106
Published in PC Hardware


It does not matter what it is, it is one of these now

A recent Windows 10 and 11 update renames everyone's printers to "HP LaserJet M101-M106" regardless of the model.

Car companies are playing fast and footloose with data privacy
Published in Transportation


Collecting far too much data

A survey by a US senator of 14 car makers has shown that they are collecting more user data than many car owners are aware.

Apple releases an important security patch for 17.1.1
Published in News


Tame Apple Press really believes that is a good thing

Fruity cargo cult Apple has released another update for iOS, just weeks after releasing its 17.1.1.

Nvidia needs to stop redesigning chips for China
Published in PC Hardware


White House warns

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned Nvidia against redesigning AI chips for China that manoeuvre around export restrictions.

Loongson and CXMT three years behind Intel
Published in PC Hardware


And closing fast

Chinese chip houses Loongson and CXMT have been showing off some chips which should be putting the fear of the Middle Kingdom into Western chipmakers and the US government.

Developers can code in their sleep
Published in News


Employers can make you work when you nod off

Start-up Prophetic claims it has developed a headpiece which will allow people to work when they are having a lucid dream.

GPT-4 beaten in Turing test by 1960s ELIZA
Published in AI


Move over generation Z boomer code has beaten you

In a preprint research paper titled "Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?", two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA to see which could trick participants into thinking it was human with the greatest success.