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.

US crackdown targets global users of Chinese tech

Donald Trump’s administration has warned that using artificial intelligence chips from Huawei could land companies worldwide with criminal penalties for violating US export controls.

Growth to halve by 2029

After years of throwing cash at IT services like drunken sailors, companies worldwide are finally putting their wallets away. New data shows that spending growth in the sector is about to collapse by half before the end of the decade.

Even before the scalpers get their paws on them

Nvidia is jacking up prices across almost its entire product line to keep its profits fat while tariffs and soaring manufacturing costs hammer the business.

Blast SSD to 512 TB

Sandisk chief executive David Goeckeler has been banging on about a new SSD controller called Stargate, promising a “dynamite project” without actually revealing much beyond the name.

Cook does not want to blame tariffs

The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple is plotting price hikes for its autumn iPhone 17 lineup while pretending tariffs have nothing to do with it.

Son pulls a rabbit out of his telecom hat

Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by posting a €3.27 billion quarterly profit, fuelled by telecom holdings and a rare bout of investment luck.