Android may get faster hotspots with a dual-band trick
Published in Mobiles


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.

Europe’s space chiefs eye the military realm
Published in Network


Shower ESA with fresh billions

Europe’s space ministers have lobbed a hefty wedge of money at the European Space Agency and, for the first time, told it to build hardware meant for soldiers as well as civilians.

OpenAI’s future rides on mountain of risky loans
Published in AI


Partners stack colossal borrowings around the start-up

OpenAI’s rise looks flashier than a Vegas strip as its data centre pals rack up eye-watering loans so the chatbot darling can scale without sweating the repayments.

Intel Granite Rapids-WS Xeon 696X spotted in SiSoftware Sandra
Published in PC Hardware


64-core SKU with 336ML of L3 cache and 350W TDP

Intel is preparing its new W890 platform for next-gen Xeon 6 workstation system and a 64-core Xeon 696X SKU has been spotted in SiSoftware Sandra database, running at 4.4GHz base clock and 4.51GHz Boost.

AMD bangs open source drum to prise devs away from Cuda
Published in News


Pitches ROCm as the antidote to Nvidia’s walled garden

AMD reckons it can win over AI developers by offering an open software ecosystem rather than locking everything behind a proprietary moat.