Apple’s Walled garden under siege
DoJ and Fanboys are at its Gates
Apple’s fruity empire is under siege as a barrage of lawsuits accuses the tech titan of strong-arming the smartphone realm. The legal onslaught, which piggybacks on a colossal antitrust case by the US Justice Department and a posse of 15 states, has seen at least three class actions lobbed at the iPhone maker since last Friday.
Tech titans try to break Nvidia's AI stranglehold
Ganging up to bring an end to tyranny
A coalition of tech giants, including Qualcomm, Google, and Intel, is set to challenge Nvidia's stronghold by targeting the software that binds developers to Nvidia's chips. They join a growing band of financiers and firms chipping away at Nvidia's AI supremacy.
Misplaced trust in Apple nearly ends in tragedy
Lucky no one was killed
In a shocking display of blind faith in Silicon Valley's shiny gadgets, a pair of Apple zealots nearly caused a fatal disaster, all thanks to the tech giant's "Findmy" fiasco.
Apple's bezel battle
Trimming a bit off the sides
The Tame Apple Press is apparently so desperate to whip up a frenzy over the next iPhone 16 that it is scratching its head to find something in the rumours that makes it sound interesting. Apparently, the big news is that Job’s Mob going to shave a bit off the bezel.
Featuring 20 and 24 Xe-Cores, and 12GB of VRAM
Intel is keeping the details of its upcoming Intel Battlemage GPUs under tight wraps, but now some of the information has been spotted in the SiSoftware Sandra database, including two Xe2 chips.
Musk's free speech facade flops
It turns out you can’t use your money to silence other people’s free speech
Elon [look at me] Musk's social media giant X has been left red-faced after a judge threw out its lawsuit against the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a group that's been shining a light on the dark corners of hate speech online.
AMD preparing new Ryzen 5000 XT series processors
Keeping the AM4 socket alive
In addition to announcing new AM5 processors, AMD is obviously keen to keep the AM4 socket alive, extending support for the socket well through the year. At a dedicated event in China, AMD unveiled both the Ryzen 8000F series SKUs, that will come with disabled integrated graphics, as well as the new Ryzen 5000 XT series SKUs.
Asus unveils new ROG Strix XG27WCS gaming monitor
With 27-inch VA panel, 1440p resolution, and 180Hz refresh rate
Asus has unveiled yet another ROG Strix series gaming monitor, the 27-inch ROG Strix XG27WCS, featuring a curved VA panel with 1440p resolution and 180Hz refresh rate.
Beijing purges US big tech
China's chip chop
China's tech titans are giving Uncle Sam's silicon the old heave-ho, with new rules booting out Yankie processors and software from government gear.
This is not a repeat from 9AD
Chipzilla’s future chip fab site in Germany has been buzzing with the news that archaeologists have found burial mounds packed with human and animal bones dating back a whopping. 6,000 years.