Cook does not want to blame tariffs

The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple is plotting price hikes for its autumn iPhone 17 lineup while pretending tariffs have nothing to do with it.

Son pulls a rabbit out of his telecom hat

Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by posting a €3.27 billion quarterly profit, fuelled by telecom holdings and a rare bout of investment luck.

Gamers face console death penalty for stepping out of line

Nintendo has slipped a nasty surprise into its May 2025 user agreement, giving itself the right to permanently brick Switch and Switch 2 consoles if players hack or pirate games.

Vows to keep women out of top management 

The German maker of expensive management software, which no one really knows what it does, SAP, has axed its 40 per cent female workforce quota, according to a leaked internal memo.

Colossus supercomputer sparks pollution row 

Elon Musk’s AI outfit, xAI, has managed to become one of Memphis’ biggest air polluters kicking off a storm among residents already battling industrial filth.

Infold Games slammed for bugs, greed, and gutting the story

Infinity Nikki’s big Steam debut was supposed to be a victory lap. Instead, Infold Games faceplanted into a wall of player rage.

Reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance

OpenAI and the software King of the World Microsoft are reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance so the ChatGPT maker can flog shares in a future IPO without losing its golden pipeline to AI wizardry. 

Chipzilla gives up tying CPU and GPU together

Troubled Chipzilla has officially canned its Deep Link suite, quietly shelving one of its more ambitious attempts to get CPUs and GPUs working together.

External GPUs finally come to Apple

Tiny has managed to get AMD eGPUs working on Windows, Linux, and macOS using nothing more than USB3 and a dose of black magic.

Buyers feeling sticky

Gigabyte’s RTX 50-series graphics cards are leaking more than heat, as users report thermal gel dribbling out of heatsinks.