Apple fanboy sues Jobs’ Mob because of his divorce
Served up his messages from prostitutes for her to read
An Apple fanboy is suing his favourite company for £5 million after his wife divorced him after reading messages he sent to prostitutes and thought he had deleted reappeared.
UK lags behind on tech skills
Brazil looks much better
A new report by online learning platform Coursera indicates that the UK is lagging behind other European nations in tech and business skills proficiency.
Or did Qualcomm lie?
Something evil is afoot. Either Tame Apple Press is raining on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite parade, or Qualcomm has been telling huge porkers about its new chips.
Norway fines huge rare earth deposit
Could reduce dependence on China
Mining firm Rare Earths Norway has discovered Europe's largest confirmed deposit of highly sought-after rare earth elements.
Firefox defects to Moscow
Putin made us an offer we could not refuse
Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation, the open saucy entity behind the web browser Firefox, are assisting Tsar Putin’s censors.
Alexa, are you OK?
Amazon having difficulty gettting an AI upgrade on Alexa
Amazon’s Alexa, which is arguably the most advanced of the voice assistants, is having difficulties with its generative AI transformation.
Windows Recall put on hold
Not tonight Josephine
Software King of the World, Microsoft has slammed the brakes on the launch of its “Windows Recall” AI feature after shedloads of complaints about security.
Apple scores good AI deal with OpenAI
Please give it to use for free while we work out a way to do you over
While Microsoft had to pay $10 billion for its OpenAI deal, the fruity cargo cult Apple seems to be getting it for free.
Intel faces battle with foreign-backed patent trolls
Gaming the system
Chipzilla is entangled in “patent troll” legal cases with the trolls backed by third-party financiers or owned by hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other sophisticated investors.
Taking the stress of call centre operators with an AI shield
SoftBank has developed AI voice-conversion technology to reduce call centre operators' psychological stress by altering the voices of angry customers to sound calmer.