Facebook censors Linux topics
Right wing good, open sauce bad
Social notworking site Facebook is censoring posts mentioning Linux-related topics, according to Linux news and discussion site DistroWatch.
Council flogs off assets to fund Oracle project
Getting rather expensive
West Sussex County Council is selling $31 million of capital assets to fund an Oracle-based transformation project, which has caused a cost overrun of biblical proportions.
Infineon unveils optimised eSIM for consumer gear
Claims it is the world's smallest GSMA-compliant eSIM
Infineon Technologies has claimed to have created the world's smallest GSMA-compliant eSIM solution.
Wall Street melts down over Chinese AI upstart
Hardware share prices crash
In a moment of true stupidity, Wall Street's cocaine nose jobs created a panic in NASDAQ shares yesterday after it was revealed that a Chinese AI upstart had managed to get an AI running with less hardware and power than the West.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 cards are nearly here
Newegg has them listed
Nvidia's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 cards will be available on 30 January at 6 am.
iPhone has a new broken alarm feature
Claims to be on it
Members of the Apple fruity cargo cult are incandescent with rage after the alarms on their shiny toys stop working. This means that many of them are sleeping and missing work.
Microsoft was in the middle of the Gaza Conflict.
Flogged cloud and AI to the IDF
A leaked document from Israel’s Defense Ministry and files acquired from Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary show that the software king of the world has been deeply involved in the Gaza conflict.
Nvidia starts killing off Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
GeForce driver support future uncertain
Tom’s Hardware has noticed that Nvidia's release notes for CUDA 12.8 show Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs are set to transition to the legacy driver branch and will self-identify as “dead as a dodo.”
Boffins save 30 per cent on data centre power bills
Made some minor changes to Linux code
A team of boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a string of Linux code that they think can save 30 per cent on a data centre's power bill.
Tech oligarchs consider buying TikTok
Bytedance still involved
A new plan which would keep TikTok available in the US, but under the control of a group of companies including Oracle and Microsoft is being negotiated by the White House.