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.

Crowdfunded Sailfish revival banks on loyal Linux fans

Jolla is having another crack at the smartphone lark, leaning on crowdfunding to get its new handset out the door.

Local brands push switcher apps to poach Job’s Mob users

Chinese phonemakers are pushing hard to lure punters from the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple as the outfit struggles to roll out its AI features in the world’s biggest smartphone arena.

Beijing’s chip hopeful rockets on debut

AI mania has China in a proper lather as punters pile into homegrown AI chip designer Moore Threads.