Wall Street worried about Oracle debt
Credit traders see a messy year looming
Oracle’s debt started flashing warning lights in November as its risk gauge climbed to a three-year high, Bloomberg reported, prompting traders to mutter that something unpleasant is brewing.
AMD hints at coming Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU
Faster 8-core with 3D V-Cache
AMD has surprisingly listed the rumored Ryzen 7 9850X3D SKU on its driver website, confirming one of the two Zen 5 SKUs that were spotted earlier. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is an 8-core/16-thread SKU with a 4.7GHz clock and 120W TDP.
Chinese firms get their Nvidia fix in Southeast Asia
AI chip is full of holes
Chinese tech behemoths are hauling their prized AI models overseas to gorge on Nvidia’s finest chips while pretending everything is above board.
SonicWall scrambles (again) to patch SSL-VPN flaw
Can remotely face-plant its firewalls
SonicWall is back in the spotlight this week, unfortunately for SonicWall, after rushing out emergency fixes for yet another high-severity SonicOS vulnerability that lets attackers remotely crash its firewalls.Yes, again.
SSD shortages are getting worse
Samsung just made sure of it
SSD shortages are here, prices are climbing, and the world’s largest NAND producer just took one foot off the gas.
Intel plots a 52-core monster to take AMD’s X3D crown
Nova Lake has more cache than you can poke a stick at
Troubled Chipzilla looks ready to swing a cricket bat at AMD’s stacked-cache dominance with a wild 52-core Nova Lake brute that reportedly carries 288 MB of vertical last-level cache.
Samsung boffins flip old assumptions to slash NAND power
A 96 per cent power cut in flash.
Boffins working from Samsung Electronics have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have slashed NAND flash power consumption by as much as 96 per cent.
Italian studio faces closure after Steam ban
Who would have thunk that riding naked humans would cause such a stink?
Valve has confirmed that it reviewed and pre-emptively banned the surreal horror Horses game after parts of the store page set off alarm bells, prompting the company to demand a full build review.
India sharpens its antitrust stick and Apple squirms
The Fruity Cargo Cult whinges that it might be fined billions
India’s new antitrust law has given its competition watchdog the freedom to calculate penalties using global turnover, and Job’s Mob is already clutching its pearls about the consequences.
Android may get faster hotspots with a dual-band trick
Google tests a more intelligent hotspot mode
Android has long made setting up a mobile hotspot easy, although the default settings leave you crawling along when the hardware can do far better.