Taiwan giant turns to local partners as packaging crunch bites

TSMC is stuffed to the rafters with CoWoS orders, and the AI industry is sweating over it, although the company seems to have a cunning plan.

Gaming slab gets a party trick as its screen rolls out sideways

Lenovo is gearing up to unleash a Legion-branded rollable laptop that stretches sideways into a portable ultrawide gaming panel and is pencilled in for an early 2026 launch, probably at CES.

Tiling makeover could open the door to rival GPUs

Nvidia has rolled out one of the biggest updates to its CUDA software stack in years, and chip design legend Jim Keller reckons it might even spell the end of its long-guarded exclusivity.

OTF GRIMM racks up arrests as it battles VaaS rise

Europol’s OTF GRIMM has smashed its way through Europe’s cyber violence-for-hire scene in its first six months and left a trail of crippled criminal networks behind it.

Biggish Blue reckons data streaming will rev up its generative push

IBM has hurled $11 billion at Confluent in a deal meant to drag the ageing giant deeper into the artificial intelligence stampede.

Big Tech outfit turns its custom silicon into a serious threat

Google’s custom silicon is giving Nvidia a proper fright as the search outfit’s tensor processing units help its Gemini 3 models overtake OpenAI’s latest efforts.

With fiends like that, who needs enemas

Trump will allow Nvidia to flog its H200 chip to China if he is allowed to skim 25 per cent off the top.

Yield gains pull in fresh AI customers.

Samsung’s memory business is roaring back to life, and its foundry arm is finally showing signs of life as yield improvements tempt Big Tech outfits back to the table.

Linux creator says BSOD blame lands on flaky rigs, not code

Linus Torvalds has ended up defending Microsoft’s much-mocked blue-screen-of-death screens. However, his argument has less to do with software quality and everything to do with dodgy hardware in the hands of punters.

Internet cheers as subway vigilante goes viral

A New York subway punter learned the hard way that people have had their fill of being filmed after a woman allegedly smashed his Meta smart glasses.