Wants $60 million for doing less than local providers

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is throwing its toys out of the pram again, this time over Virginia’s decision to fund proper broadband infrastructure instead of handing cash to his satellite internet sideshow.

Socialism sneaks in the back door

Troubled Chipzilla might soon be partly owned by Uncle Sam if President Donald Trump gets his way.

Intel’s restructuring leaves key open-source work without a home

Troubled Chipzilla’s decision to sack around 24,000 workers has not only left its product lines short-staffed, it has gutted some of the essential work keeping Linux support alive for Intel hardware.

Panic buying boosts shipments 

Thanks to tariff jitters in the second quarter, CPU shipments jumped 7.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter, with Client CPU sales leaping from nearly 62 million units in the first quarter to just over 67 million.

Apple ditches 128GB model so it can charge more 

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is getting ready to pull a fast one with the iPhone 17 Pro by scrapping the 128GB version, forcing buyers to start at a “base” 256GB model costing $1,049.

Dell, Super Micro gear laced with spy kit as US hunts chip smugglers

The US has been tucking location trackers into shipments of advanced AI chips and servers, hoping to catch them being smuggled into China.

Accenture and Oracle binned so Salesforce, Palantir and Workday can have a go

The US Department of Defence is chucking out two human resources software projects worth more than $800 million even though they were nearly finished because someone wanted to give their favourite contractors a turn.

Beijing’s homegrown chip dream still can’t train properly

Chinese AI outfit DeepSeek has been forced to eat humble pie after its shiny new model flopped on Huawei’s Ascend chips, dragging a planned May launch into the long grass and handing rivals the chance to surge ahead.

iPhone assembly into second place

Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, did much better than expectations with its second quarter numbers.

Cosmos Reason makes robots think like humans

Nvidia has decided your next robot needs to think a little more like you, or at least the better bits of you, with the launch of its new inference visual language model “Cosmos Reason.”