Official bans look tough, but processors turn up via backdoors

Despite the US waving its sanctions stick over Russia since the Ukraine invasion, chips are streaming into the country through a maze of unofficial networks. 

Azor reckons most of you are playing esports at 1080p 

AMD’s gaming architect and Alienware co-founder Frank Azor [pictured] has poked the hornets’ nest by claiming most gamers don’t need more than 8GB of VRAM on their graphics cards.

Redmond accused of censoring internal dissent over Israeli military contracts

Software King of the World, Microsoft has started to censor internal emails mentioning “genocide,” “Gaza,” “Palestine,” or anti-Israel activism.

Touchscreen cosplay meets overkill performance at Computex

MSI’s Computex 2025 stand wasn’t short on spectacle, but one of its gaudier displays was the MEG Vision X AI, a prebuilt gaming PC with a 13-inch front-facing touchscreen pretending to be an “AI Human Machine Interface.”

iPhones made outside US could get slapped with a massive tax

President Donald Trump is kicking off another round of his trade war antics, and this time the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is in the firing line. On 23 May 2025, Trump warned Apple boss Tim Cook that unless iPhones are made in the US, they’ll be hit with a 25 per cent tariff.

Blackwell-based B40 set to dodge export bans with cheaper silicon

Following yet another US clampdown on AI hardware, Nvidia is scrambling to keep its Chinese revenue stream alive with a watered-down Blackwell GPU called the B40.

Chunky cooling collab rolls into Computex

Asus trying to make noise by teaming up again with the airflow-obsessed Austrians at Noctua for a monster RTX 5080.

Company vanishes in a puff of smoke

Sachin Dev Duggal [pictured] called himself the “chief wizard” of Builder.ai but now his spells have failed and the once-hyped unicorn has gone poof.

Apple's iPhone supply chain shifts further from China to Chennai

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is moving more of its iPhone supply chain into India, with its long-time partner Foxconn dropping $1.5 billion on a new display module plant near Chennai. 

PinSafe Design ditches PCB spikes for smooth hands and fewer shorts

MSI has finally admitted what every PC builder already knows: motherboards are tiny metal sadists. At Computex 2025, the company revealed its new PinSafe Design, aimed at ending the age-old bloodsport of assembling a rig with your bare hands.