Apple in more trouble with the EU
Turns out you can’t fool them
The fruity cargo cult Apple is in hot water again with the EU regulators after its much-hyped plan to liberalise its app store fees has turned out to cost developers more.
Even open saucers giving up on Firefox
All roads will lead to Chromium
Even the Open Sauce movement thinks that Firefox is on its way out and is starting to get into bed with the sorts of names it previously spat when mentioning.
World’s most powerful supercomputer switched on
El Capitan can predict the existence of rice pudding to 400 decimal places
The world’s most powerful supercomputer, El Capitan, was officially turned on at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) CEO Antonio Neri and AMD CEO Lisa Su celebrating their partnership.
Zuckerberg slams Apple innovation myth
Fruity cargo cult has not done anything new for ages
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shocked the Tame Apple press by committing public heresy.
Microsoft sues AI hackers
Hacking-as-a-service
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has launched a lawsuit against a foreign-based hacking group accused of running a "hacking-as-a-service" scheme designed to bypass safety measures in generative AI platforms, including Microsoft’s systems.
iFixit exposes the “Worst in Tech” at CES
There is a lot of rubbish out there
As CES wraps up this week, iFixit’s Director of Sustainability, Elizabeth Chamberlain, issued a stark reminder: "Not all innovation is good."
AI will give ordinary people super human powers
Radioactive spiders to be made redundant
A "wave" of superhuman abilities delivered through context-aware AI agents is set to transform human experience by 2030, predicts Louis Rosenberg, founder of Unanimous AI.
Google back to digital fingerprinting
Watchdog's outraged bark
Search engine outfit Google is bringing back "digital fingerprinting" in five weeks which means it is back to spying on users to make big bucks from advertising.
Bundled with new Core Ultra CPUs
While Intel did not have a lot to show at the CES 2025 event, mostly since most of the things were leaked earlier, but the new boxed CPU Laminar coolers that will be bundled with the Core Ultra 200 non-K series have now been spotted.
Zotac shows its new ZONE handheld prototype at CES 2025
AMD Strix Point APU, more RAM and storage, in a similar package
In addition to the full lineup of Geforce RTX 50 series graphics cards, Zotac's new ZONE gaming handheld prototype was also spotted at the CES 2025 show in Las Vegas. Zotac decided to update the console with AMD Strix Point APU, as well as give it 32GB of LPDDR5X memory and 1TB of storage.