Nintendo threatens to brick hacked Switches
Gamers face console death penalty for stepping out of line
Nintendo has slipped a nasty surprise into its May 2025 user agreement, giving itself the right to permanently brick Switch and Switch 2 consoles if players hack or pirate games.
Vows to keep women out of top management
The German maker of expensive management software, which no one really knows what it does, SAP, has axed its 40 per cent female workforce quota, according to a leaked internal memo.
Musk’s xAI accused of spewing filth over Memphis
Colossus supercomputer sparks pollution row
Elon Musk’s AI outfit, xAI, has managed to become one of Memphis’ biggest air polluters kicking off a storm among residents already battling industrial filth.
Infold Games slammed for bugs, greed, and gutting the story
Infinity Nikki’s big Steam debut was supposed to be a victory lap. Instead, Infold Games faceplanted into a wall of player rage.
Microsoft and OpenAI bicker over AI
Reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance
OpenAI and the software King of the World Microsoft are reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance so the ChatGPT maker can flog shares in a future IPO without losing its golden pipeline to AI wizardry.
Intel ditches Deep Link
Chipzilla gives up tying CPU and GPU together
Troubled Chipzilla has officially canned its Deep Link suite, quietly shelving one of its more ambitious attempts to get CPUs and GPUs working together.
Tiny jams AMD GPUs over USB3
External GPUs finally come to Apple
Tiny has managed to get AMD eGPUs working on Windows, Linux, and macOS using nothing more than USB3 and a dose of black magic.
Gigabyte RTX 50 GPUs ooze thermal gel
Buyers feeling sticky
Gigabyte’s RTX 50-series graphics cards are leaking more than heat, as users report thermal gel dribbling out of heatsinks.
Apple finally admits Siri spies on you
Coughs up $95 million
Apple fanboys using Siri-enabled gear in the US between 17 September 2014 and 31 December 2024 can grab a slice of a $95 million (€88 million) payout, after the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple was caught red-handed snooping on private chats.
HarmonyOS laptops get serious
Huawei is gearing up to drop its first proper in-house silicon for desktop-class machines with the Kirin X90, and if the tipsters are right, it’s a winner.