AI buzz and solid networking sales boost forecast

Cisco Systems has posted better-than-expected profit and sales in its fiscal third quarter.

Intel’s future pinned to a node no one’s buying

Troubled Chipzilla’s much-hyped 18A manufacturing node, the supposed centrepiece of its comeback plan, is currently about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit.

Sees “white genocide” everywhere even in baseball

Elon Musk’s pet AI Grok appears to have gone completely off its trolley, hijacking conversations on X (formerly Twitter) to bang on about alleged "white genocide" in South Africa, no matter what anyone asks it.

Rattling EPYC and Xeon cages

China’s Hygon has  delivered a monster CPU that might give Troubled Chipzilla’s Xeon and AMD’s EPYC a right scare.

New GFX13 architecture sneaks into the spotlight

AMD’s next-gen GPU architecture has leaked all over the web, and it looks like the chipmaker is ready to ditch RDNA for something it is either calling UDNA or RDNA 5, depending on which way the wind is blowing.

Linux boss blames autocorrect for typo mayhem

IT's Mr Sweary, Linus Torvalds has binned his low-profile keyboard and rejoined the noisy mechanical brigade.

Factory Reset Protection gets some teeth

Google is giving Android’s Factory Reset Protection (FRP) a badly needed kick up the backside, promising to make stolen phones even more useless than before by spotting setup wizard dodges and forcing a second reset until ownership is nailed down.

Another Spectre hole

Troubled Chipzilla has managed another spectacular security belly-flop, with researchers finding a shiny new hole in all modern Intel CPUs that leaks data from privileged software like the operating system kernel.

But warns of trouble ahead

Foxconn has reported 91 per cent surge in profit this quarter but warned that it is cutting its full-year outlook over US tariff games.

More than 6,000 Voles to go

Software King of the World, Microsoft is sharpening the axe again, swinging for three per cent of its global workforce to strip out middle managers and trim its flabby international operations.