
Apple's AI shake-up shuffle
Vision Pro chief takes over Siri amid delays and internal strife
Apple is scrambling to salvage its floundering AI initiatives, as CEO Tim Cook has reportedly sidelined John Giannandrea, the company's AI chief, due to the faltering development of its products.

Nvidia flogs RTX 5090s from a food truck
While AI gold rush leaves gamers in the dust
Nvidia has decided the best way to sell its unicorn-tier RTX 5090 and 5080 graphics cards is not through retailers or online orders, but from the back of a food truck.

USB-C may be on the chopping block
EU loophole opens floodgates for portless phones
The European Commission has ruled that its instance on the USB-C standard only applies to phones if they charge via a wire.

HP dodges blame for sabotaging its printers
Pays lawyers instead of customers
A US District Court judge has approved a settlement between the makers of expensive printer ink, HP, and a group of furious customers who were understandably miffed that their printers were rendered inoperable by an unwanted firmware update.

Physicists create LED pixels smaller than a virus
For very small screens
A team of Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs having created a pixel which is smaller than a virus.

Clearview AI tried to buy 690 million arrest records
What could possibly go wrong?
Surveillance-snoop-for-hire Clearview AI attempted to snap up nearly 700 million arrest records and 390 million mugshots—complete with Social Security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers.

UK bosses are too terrified to check their carbon sins
Fear being cancelled instead of greened.
Nearly half of UK business leaders are reportedly too afraid to examine their own emissions data—presumably for fear it might confirm that their companies have been contributing to global warming at a rate similar to that of a Tesco rotisserie chicken.

Gelsinger claims Nvidia’s AI GPUs are overpriced
Jensen just got lucky on AI
It appears that former troubled Chipzilla CEO Pat Gelsinger is still upset about Nvidia’s AI dominance, taking a swipe at Jensen Huang’s pricing strategy and implying that Nvidia’s meteoric rise in AI was more a matter of luck than strategy.

Belgian prosecutors charge five in European Parliament bribery scandal
Linked to Huawei
Inspector Nasher of the Brussels Yard has fingered the collar of five individuals in connection with a bribery investigation that reportedly has ties to China’s tech giant, Huawei.

EU tells Apple to open its Walled Garden
Jobs’ Mob throws its toys out of the pram
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has once again found itself on the wrong side of EU regulators, who have ordered the tech giant to stop sitting behind its walled garden and open up to rivals.