Musk’s AI started a war on X
Claimed Iran had carried out a heavy missile attack on Israel
Elon [look at me] Musk's platform, X, had a bit of a 'mare on 4 April 2024. A headline popped up claiming Iran had lobbed a few heavy missiles at Tel Aviv which caused quite a kerfuffle among users worldwide.
AMD open sauces MES
Unexpected move
AMD has decided to open source its Micro Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware for GPUs and is handing users the keys to the Radeon graphics cards kingdom.
Apple’s privacy settings are a dog’s dinner
It seems the EU has not read them yet
The Jobs Mob's been caught with its pants down over privacy settings about as clear as a London fog.
Voyager 1 has a memory problem
Happens with age
NASA's Voyager 1, the grand old duke of space probes, has been sending gobbledygook instead of pristine space secrets since last November, and now NASA has found the source of the problem.
SK Hynix to build memory plant in the home of XXX hamburgers
Do you want chips with that?
SK Hynix has announced it will build a huge memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, which is otherwise known for its hamburgers.
Volish Boffins patent new form of sound recognition
Can hear the sound of one hand clapping
The boffins over at Microsoft have patented a newfangled sound recognition AI.
Suicide Squad Hackers unleash chaos and skins
Wall to wall DMCAs
The live-service blaster, "Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League," is up to its neck in hacker hijinks.
Apple's Titanic trouble
More than 700 about to be let go
Fruity cargo cult Apple has decided that there are instead a lot of members of his sect who are surplus to requirements after all.
Sinking Fujitsu axed from UK flood warning system
Post office scandal has knock-on effects
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has given Fujitsu the old heave-ho from providing a flood warning system to the UK, just two months after signing an extension of up to 12 months.
Linux seeks lebensraum in Voleland for Germany
Digital sovereignty becomes a thing
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to ditch Volish software a.nd install Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open-source software) on the whopping 30,000 PCs used in local government.