Cloudflare rebuilds its internet engine in Rust
Published in Cloud


A 25 per cent performance bump

Interweb bouncer Cloudflare has spent the past year ripping out the guts of its global traffic system and replacing them with something Rusty. 

Musk makes Wikipedia even worse
Published in News


Elon’s latest cosmic ego trip is a complete disaster

Elon Musk's AI powered version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia is so bad it makes the online encyclopaedia powered by fake penis experts waving their imagined doctorates look good.

AI groups race to plug prompt injection bugs
Published in AI


Industry teams try to stop criminals tricking chatbots into spilling secrets

Big language AI models are under a sustained assault and the tech world is scrambling to patch the holes.

China freezes chip chemistry to slash defects by 99 per cent
Published in News


Cryogenic trick gives Beijing’s fabs a leg-up

Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a way to stop chips from going pear-shaped during manufacture by literally freezing the process mid-flow.

Intel and BOE teach laptops to chill out
Published in Graphics


Troubled Chipzilla finds salvation in AI displays that know when to stop working so hard

Troubled Chipzilla has joined forces with Chinese display giant BOE to give laptop screens a much-needed sense of restraint. The pair claim their new AI-powered display tricks will stretch battery life while keeping images sharp.

Former Intel boss turns to holy hardware
Published in AI


Kicking Pat Gelsinger wants ‘faith-based AI’

Ex-Chipzilla chief Patrick [Kicking] Gelsinger now preaching digital salvation through chatbots and church tech.

Apple’s Family Sharing tool accused of enabling digital abuse
Published in Mobiles


Fruity Cargo Cult’s design flaws let her ex use tech for child coercion

Apple is under fire for a feature meant to keep families connected but which, in reality, has handed control to digital abusers.

Amazon rides cloud and AI boom
Published in Cloud


Cloudy profits surge past expectations

Jeff Bezo's Amazon’s latest results show the company continues to turn artificial intelligence and cloud computing into serious profits.

Apple’s iPhone sales disappoint
Published in Mobiles


Cash cow continues to die

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has managed another quarter of solid numbers while admitting that the iPhone cash cow is looking a bit sad.

Sam Altman wants his Tesla money back
Published in Transportation


Musk trousered Altman's $45,000 with his long-delayed Roadster

OpenAI chief Sam Altman has decided he’s had a gutsful of waiting for a car that probably only exists only in Elon Musk’s imagination.