Were used to mine Chia
A Heise investigation has uncovered that new Seagate data centre-grade hard drives may be used equipment sourced from Chinese cryptocurrency mining farms that mined Chia several years ago.
Half of AMD’s chip sales are AM4
New technologies you can’t give it away
Half of AMD's CPU sales are using the old AMD 4 socket with AM5 not having the take up the company expected.
Gates says Intel has lost its way
Kicking Pat exited too soon
Software King of the Known World, Sir William Gates III said that Chipzilla has lost its way and Pat [kicking] Gelsinger was brave and right.
Qwertykeys pauses US shipments
Trump’s tariff chaos
Popular keyboard company Qwertykeys has temporarily suspended all shipments to the United States in a dramatic response to President Donald [eating the cats] Trump’s new tariffs on Chinese goods.
E3 to be replaced with management speak
This is what happens when you let managers and marketers take over a gaming expo
One of the most famous gaming expos, E3, which was shuttered in 2023, is being replaced by something packed with so much toxic management speak that it should contain a warning on the box.
Arm runs away from Qualcomm legal battle
Chip giant free to make processors
British chip designer Arm has abandoned its bid to terminate Qualcomm’s crucial Architecture License Agreement (ALA), meaning the US tech giant can continue producing Arm-compatible chips for PCs, smartphones, and servers.
DeepSeek's AI will be banned in the USA
Judges Jefferies says it will all be illegal
The AI app that stormed to the top of the download charts on Apple’s App Store and Google Play, and rocked Nvidia's share value, is now staring down the barrel of a US consumer ban, top analysts at US investment bank Jefferies have warned.
Ransomware business drops down the loo
The sound of the world’s smallest violin playing
It seems that the bottom has dropped out of the ransomware business.
Ubuntu’s charm-fading
Killed by terrible updating
Software developer and prolific open-source influencer Herman Ounapuu has criticised the Ubuntu Linux operating system, claiming it has lost its shine due to terrible updating systems.
There is no direct link between school phone bans and better grades
But generally kids have to get off their mobiles more
The first study of its kind suggests that banning phones in schools is not linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental well-being.