Space AI is worth a bomb but decades away
Investors are already putting trillion-dollar numbers on orbital AI computing, while the engineers involved reckon…
Intel’s 18A process is finally competitive
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Nvidia bandits get sandbagged
Thieves hunting valuable Nvidia hardware stole two branded trailers in California only to discover they jacked 20 tonnes of sand. According to Wired, the trailers belonged to autonomous trucking outfit…
Nvidia bandits get sandbagged
Thieves hunting valuable Nvidia hardware stole two branded trailers in California only to discover they…
Musk admits Grok trails Anthropic
Elon Musk has admitted that Grok still lags behind Anthropic’s latest AI models, though he…
Chipzilla makes Linux memory hotplugging faster
Intel boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have produced a Linux kernel…
Nvidia patents AI chatbot to hunt game performance problems
Nvidia has patented an AI assistant designed to help developers diagnose GPU performance problems using…
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Nvidia bandits get sandbagged
Thieves hunting valuable Nvidia hardware stole two branded trailers in California only to discover they jacked 20 tonnes of sand. According to Wired, the trailers belonged to autonomous trucking outfit…
Musk admits Grok trails Anthropic
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Nvidia patents AI chatbot to hunt game performance problems
Nvidia has patented an AI assistant designed to help developers diagnose GPU performance problems using…
China’s fastest GPU gets mugged by ancient Radeon
China’s fastest home-grown gaming GPU has been thoroughly embarrassed by benchmarks that put it barely…
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Thieves hunting valuable Nvidia hardware stole two branded trailers in California only to discover they jacked 20 tonnes of sand. According to Wired, the trailers belonged to autonomous trucking outfit…
Mobiles
Qualcomm wants to stick cameras in your ears
Qualcomm is preparing camera-equipped earbuds that let AI watch the world around you, apparently because microphones weren’t intrusive enough. According to The Indian Express, audio outfit Cleer demonstrated the concept…
Meta thinks your AI needs its own Tamagotchi
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Qualcomm puts an AI in your pocket
Qualcomm has launched two flagship phone chips built to run more AI on the handset,…
PC Hardware
Intel’s 18A process is finally competitive
A physical teardown of Intel’s Panther Lake shows that Chipzilla’s 18A process is competitive, though…
TSMC rumoured to fire up 1.4nm pilot production
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming TSMC has reportedly started…
Chipzilla makes Linux memory hotplugging faster
Intel boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have produced a Linux kernel optimisation that cuts memory hotplugging times, particularly for virtual machines and systems using CXL memory.…
AI
Nvidia patents AI chatbot to hunt game performance problems
Nvidia has patented an AI assistant designed to help developers diagnose GPU performance problems using ordinary language instead of manually digging through profiling tools. According to Tom’s Hardware the system…
Anthropic hands Akamai $11.6 billion cloud deal
AI outfit Anthropic has signed an $11.6 billion seven-year cloud deal with Akamai as its…
Big Tech shifts $300 billion AI tab off the books
Big Tech is backing as much as $300 billion of AI infrastructure debt with guarantees…
Gaming
Valve wants $1,059 for Steam Frame
Valve has launched its Steam Frame VR headset at $1,059, asking top dollar for hardware…
Retroid doubles the screens
Retroid has unveiled two dual-screen Android handhelds, proving the clamshell format can be revived with…
Valve teaches SteamOS new compatibility tricks
Valve is expanding SteamOS beyond Proton, adding compatibility layers that bring x86 games to Arm hardware and Android APKs into Steam. According to Ars Technica the first is FEX, Valve’s…
Automotive
RAMageddon increases car prices
RAMageddon is threatening to shove car prices higher as AI outfits gobble up the memory chips needed by modern motors. According to The Atlantic cars now need microprocessors and RAM…
BMW enshittifies its cars with adverts
The maker of expensive cars for twats and travelling salesmen, BMW, has enshittified its motors…
Tesla profits skid despite record deliveries
Tesla’s second-quarter profits dropped unexpectedly after Elon Musk’s electric car circus used discounts to goose…
Data center
Musk stuffs more Nvidia kit into Colossus 2
Elon Musk plans to roughly double Colossus 2’s already enormous collection of advanced Nvidia AI…
Oracle invokes force majeure at Stargate data centre
Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of its New Mexico Stargate…
Space AI is worth a bomb but decades away
Investors are already putting trillion-dollar numbers on orbital AI computing, while the engineers involved reckon useful space data centres remain decades away. According to DigiTimes, SpaceX has made orbital computing…
Smart devices
Toyota wants 400,000 robots
Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 factory robots while insisting its mechanical workforce should coexist with humans rather than replace them. According to Ars Technica, starting in 2028, the Japanese carmaker…
Hugging Face flogs $399 robot duck
AI outfit Hugging Face has waddled into cheap robotics with Microduck, a $399 AI toy…
Amazon jacks up gadget prices
Amazon has whacked up gadget prices by as much as 60 per cent, blaming pricey…
Network
Private 5G spending heads for $84.7 billion
Global spending on private LTE and 5G networks will hit $84.7 billion by 2031 as…
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Manchester Airports Group has admitted that hackers accessed data from 8.7mn customers after a cyberattack…
Fujitsu unleashes 144-core 2nm MONAKA
Fujitsu has launched its 144-core FUJITSU-MONAKA server processor, bringing 2nm 3D-stacked silicon to AI inference and HPC systems. Global sales start in November 2026, both as a standalone Arm processor…