Trump using TSMC as a protection fee
Taiwan former president furious
Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou has accused Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump of forcing TSMC into paying what amounts to a “protection fee” by moving more of its operations to the US.
MSI snubs AMD’s RDNA 4 lineup
Agreed to see other people
MSI has quietly ghosted AMD’s latest Radeon GPUs, skipping the entire RDNA 4 lineup and leaving the Radeon RX 9070 series without one of its usual partners.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System improves over time
Like a fine wine – if wine makes Mario jump higher
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) console is somehow improving as it ages.
Bolt Graphics brings RISC-V to the GPU market
Hail Zeus
Bolt Graphics, a startup out of Sunnyvale, California, has announced its Zeus GPU platform, promising to thrash Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads.
Meta’s book censorship efforts backfire
Mr Zuckerburg met Barbra Streisand
Meta has proven that nothing sells a book faster than a censorship attempt.
Google’s AI solves 10-year-old superbug problem
Researchers wondered if they had been wasting their lives
Google’s latest AI experiment has compressed a decade’s worth of painstaking microbiological research into a two-day thunk.
Bluesky mulls selling data for AI
And archiving
Bluesky, the social network that wants to be the anti-Twitter has decided to explore the murky waters of AI data scraping.
Cursor AI refused to help developer
Learn to code you lazy git
A hapless developer using the Cursor AI-powered coding tool ran into an unexpected roadblock when, after about 800 lines of code, the AI threw up its hands and refused to continue, instead doling out some unsolicited career advice.
AMD requires UEFI for RX 9070 series
Not supporting BIOS and CSM standards
AMD has confirmed that its upcoming RX 9070 series (RDNA 4) GPUs will require a UEFI system for optimal compatibility, unceremoniously dumping support for the ageing BIOS and CSM standards.
OpenAI commands Trump to strong-arm copyright rules in its favour
Otherwise, China will win.
OpenAI is banking on Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s AI Action Plan to strong-arm copyright rules in its favour, declaring AI training as fair use and giving AI firms carte blanche to hoover up training data.