
Right of repair could be ten years in EU
Apple has heart attack
The European Commission has adopted a new set of right to repair rules that will add electronic devices like smartphones and tablets to a list of goods that must be built with repairability in mind.

Bombing journalists with USB drives
Not for hacking, just exploding
Some idiot has been sending journalists USB drives which explode when they are plugged in.

Openreach jumps fibre hurdle
Rutland was a milestone
UK broadband network provider Openreach has crossed a 'huge milestone' in its upgrading of the nation's broadband infrastructure, with ultrafast Full Fibre connections now available to 10 million homes and businesses.

Threadripper 7000 confirmed for second half of the year
Along with TR5 platform
Asus China General Manager Tony Yu has confirmed that AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7000 (codename Storm Peak) and new TR5 platform will hit the market in the second half of this year.

Intel delays buying Tower
One does does not simply buy Tower Semiconductor
Intel has delayed its $5.4 billion purchase of Tower Semiconductor.

Amazon has sold 200 million fires
That should sort out the rain forests
In the middle of announcements about its new tellys, Amazon has revealed it has now sold 200 million Fire TV devices.

Nvidia modifies H100 to sell it to China
Cuts it back to avoid red tape
Nvidia has modified its AI H100 chip to get around export rules so it can be flogged to China as a “H800.”

Nvidia dusts off dual GPU cards
At least for data centres
Nvidia has announced a new dual-GPU product, the H100 NVL but sadly not for SLI or multi-GPU gaming.

Nvidia teams up in Microsoft Azure pact
Nvidia cloud based services
The maker of graphics cards named after a Roman vengence daemon, Nvidia has teamed up with the software King of the World, Microsoft.

Fertility apps collecting too much information
Might be selling it on
Fertility apps on mobile phones might be collecting rather too much personal data sparking fears that creators are selling it.