Oracle buys 30,000 AMD AI chips
Suddenly has an open relationship with Nvidia
Oracle has announced it's buying 30,000 of AMD’s new Instinct MI355X AI accelerators.
Nvidia’s Huang backpedals on quantum computing doom
Hosts awkward apology tour
Nvidia’s leather-jacketed hype merchant, Jensen Huang, has flip-flopped on the future of Quantum computing after the cocaine-fueled nose-jobs of Wall Street threw their collective toys out of the pram.
Job’s Mob keeps switching Apple Intelligence back on
It seems the intelligent thing to do
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has once again decided it knows better than its users. With its latest iOS 18.3.2 update, it’s quietly forcing Apple Intelligence back on—even if Apple fanboys told it to sod off.
Scaling up will not solve AI problems
Boffins tell Big Tech to stop sniffing GPU fumes
The people who build artificial intelligence have finally acknowledged have warned that endlessly increasing hardware for AI models is about as effective as solving climate change by buying more SUVs.
Italy orders Google to poison its public DNS
Because someone streamed football
Italy’s war on internet piracy has taken a sharp turn into the absurd, with the Court of Milan now ordering the world’s largest search engine to poison its own public DNS servers.
Steam on a $100 ARM board
Only if you're allergic to convenience
A masochist has decided to get Steam running on a dirt-cheap ARM board powered by the RK3588 chip.
Western chips still powering Russian missiles
Loopholes
Three years into Russia's “definitely-not-an-invasion” invasion of Ukraine, it turns out the West’s sanctions regime is as watertight as a colander.
M.2 2230 PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSD reaching 7,300MB/s
PNY has unveiled its new CS2342 M.2 2230 NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSD, which promises some of the fastest read and write speeds in the 2230 form factor, reaching up to 7,300 MB/s for read speeds and 6,000 MB/s for write speeds. It will be available in 1 TB and 2 TB capacities, and available later this month.
Microsoft has announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2
New Opacity Micromaps (OMM) and Shader Execution Reordering (SER)
Microsoft has unveiled DirectX Raytracing 1.2 (DXR 1.2) at GDC 2025, introducing two major innovations designed to address key ray tracing performance bottlenecks: Opacity Micromaps (OMM) and Shader Execution Reordering (SER). These features aim to enhance ray tracing efficiency while maintaining high visual quality, signaling a shift toward more intelligent resource management in graphics processing.
Apple's AI shake-up shuffle
Vision Pro chief takes over Siri amid delays and internal strife
Apple is scrambling to salvage its floundering AI initiatives, as CEO Tim Cook has reportedly sidelined John Giannandrea, the company's AI chief, due to the faltering development of its products.