Big‑tech rushes to back Trump’s White House ballroom
Big tech lines up behind grand White House makeover.
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is listed among several major tech companies donating to fund President Donald Trump’s 90,000‑square‑foot White House ballroom.
PC market claws back thanks to Windows 10’s demise
Os deadline and tariff tinkering push PC shipments up 8.1 per cent
Global PC shipments are finally showing signs of life, rising 8.1 per cent year on year in the third quarter of 2025, according to Counterpoint Research.
Xbox queen says next console will be ‘very premium’ and ‘very high-end’
Bond confirms model will be shaken not stirred
Software King of the World Microsoft's Xbox president and chief executive Sarah Bond has confirmed Vole is working on its next-generation console and wants everyone to know it will not be cheap and cheerful.
Microsoft Windows update breaks recovery tools
Scrambles to patch it
Software King of the world Microsoft has shown it cannot release a simple update without breaking something vital. Vole managed to kill off keyboard and mouse support in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) with its 14 October patch KB5066835.
Windows 11 update breaks localhost for developers
Kernel web stack faceplants, registry hacks and rollbacks ensue
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 patch tripped over its own shoelaces and knocked out localhost, leaving devs unable to reach web apps running on their own machines.
Blackrock’s splashes $20 billion on data centre outfit
Larry Fink’s latest bet shows AI mania still has plenty of cash to burn
Investment outfit BlackRock is throwing serious money at the plumbing behind artificial intelligence.
Big Tech ignoring Trump's tariff tiffs
Investing shedloads in India
American Big Tech firms are showing remarkable confidence in India even as tariff tensions and visa snags simmer between New Delhi and Washington.
PC sales surge in Q3 as Windows deadlines bite
Enterprises rush refreshes while consumers tag along
Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and divided by their collective shoe size and reckons the PC market just clocked its best quarter in years.
Data centre growth saved the US economy
US economy is now running on the fumes of AI infrastructure
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street might want to send a thank-you card to Silicon Valley, because without data centres and AI servers, US economic growth in 2025 would have been dead in the water.
Microsoft wants to ditch Nvidia and AMD for its own silicon
Vole needs a bit of leverage
Software King of the World, Microsoft has decided it no longer wants to live under the silicon thumb of AMD or Nvidia and wants to rely more on its home brew chips.