Meta explains glasses failure
Bosworth admits Ray-Ban AI glasses brought down by “chef” trigger
Last week, Meta made a complete dog’s breakfast of its flashy demo, and now we know why.
Trump charges ‘key money’ on TikTok takeover
Orders sale then demands billions for letting it happen
The Trump administration forced TikTok to change hands in the US and wants a fat fee from the investors who are stepping in to buy it.
Trump slaps a price tag on tech visas
Tech firms shafted as H-1B costs hit $100,000
US King Donald Trump has decided that if foreigners want to work in the US, they had better be rich. And if tech companies want skilled labour, they can pay through the nose for them.
ASUS RTX 5070 dips below MSRP
Nvidia price slide continues
While Nvidia's RTX 50 series finally has enough cards in the wild, prices are dipping with some falling below their original MSRP.
Apple's iPhone Air battery life is pants
Thinner iPhone runs out of puff
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple made a lot of noise about longer battery life in its latest iPhone 17 lineup, but it would appear that the Air is not that good.
Samsung fridges join the enshitification parade
Company sneaks ads onto Family Hub models
Samsung has decided the best way to “strengthen the value” of owning one of its pricey Family Hub smart fridges is to shove adverts in user's face.
AI doctors hate women and minorities
Bias baked into medical models
Artificial intelligence tools touted as the saviours of overstretched hospitals could end up doing the opposite for women and ethnic minorities, according to new research.
Apple hogs TSMC's 2nm chips
Grabs more than half of 2026 output, leaving rivals in the dust
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has reportedly signed up for more than half of TSMC’s 2nm production capacity in 2026, effectively elbowing rivals out of the queue for the world’s most advanced silicon.
Intel needs a chainsaw, not a plaster
Nvidia’s cash will not fix Intel’s mess without a split
Troubled Chipzilla scored a temporary win when Nvidia lobbed it a $5 billion bone, but if Intel thinks that is enough to crawl back into relevance, it is dreaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Anthropic at odds with Trump's AI Tsar
Regulation over the free market
While other tech titans toasted President Donald Trump at a White House cheese and nibbles, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei [pictured] stayed in California to fight what he sees as an existential drift.