US government blames videogames for gun violence again
Kennedy thinks pixels are deadlier than guns
The US government is once again pointing the finger at videogames for America’s gun violence epidemic, because obviously the problem cannot possibly be the guns.
AMD promises MI450 will be no-excuses GPU
Chipmaker claims it will outgun Nvidia’s next big thing
AMD has been floundering in gaming graphics, but the outfit is talking big about its next-gen AI GPU, the MI450, which it swears will deliver “leadership performance across the board.”
Intel admits it has some desktop holes to fill
Arrow Lake refresh only a stopgap
Troubled Chipzilla has confirmed that a refresh of its Arrow Lake processors will limp out in 2026, with proper Nova Lake chips finally crawling out with the enthusiasm of a slug after a Hamburg rainfall later that year.
MSI cooks up RTX50 ‘Extreme OC’ cards
Afterburner dev handed early samples with unlocked voltage toys
MSI looks set to revive its Lightning branding with new RTX 50 GPUs kitted out for lunatic overclockers, and the developer behind Afterburner already has his hands on the first samples.
AI Darwin awards launched for the dimmest deployments
From Taco Bell chaos to McDonald’s jobbot fiascos
It was only a matter of time before the Darwin Awards were extended to cover the tech world’s worst attempts to shoehorn AI into places it clearly doesn’t belong.
Anthropic’s Claude falls flat on its face
Developers forced to code like cavemen
Panic erupted among developers yesterday when Anthropic’s Claude went belly up for half an hour, forcing them to write code using their own brains.
TSMC hits record-breaking August revenue
AI boom keep the tills ringing
TSMC has just clocked up its busiest August in history, pulling in 3357.72 billion yuan (€96.1 billion), a 3.9 per cent rise month-on-month and 33.8 per cent up year-on-year.
Intel's Arc B770 “Battlemage” inches closer to launch
Intel hauls out big silicon and hopes gamers will bite
Troubled Chipzilla is gearing up for the release of its top Battlemage GPU, the Arc B770, and if shipping manifests are to be believed, it's already packing crates.
Nvidia's Rubin CPX GPU targets AI inferencing arms race
Rack-sized monster to crush token counts
Nvidia has decided that building GPUs the size of small towns is the way to stay ahead in AI, and its latest weapon is the Rubin CPX which is aimed squarely at inferencing and large context models.
SASE market booms as AI-ready branches fuel demand
Cisco and Palo Alto ride the SD-WAN gravy train
The Secure Access Service Edge market has seen a 22 per cent jump in revenue year-on-year, reaching $2.7 billion in the second quarter of 2025.