Sees “white genocide” everywhere even in baseball
Elon Musk’s pet AI Grok appears to have gone completely off its trolley, hijacking conversations on X (formerly Twitter) to bang on about alleged "white genocide" in South Africa, no matter what anyone asks it.
ASUS goes all-white with Geforce RTX 50 series
Full lineup, including ROG Astral RTX 5090 and ROG Astral RTX 5080
ASUS has announced its new Geforce RTX 50 series White Editions, giving its current lineup a fresh coat of white color. The lineup includes RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 series graphics cards, as well as some other products like PC cases and PSUs to match the color scheme.
Hygon ditches AMD Zen to forge 128-core monster
Rattling EPYC and Xeon cages
China’s Hygon has delivered a monster CPU that might give Troubled Chipzilla’s Xeon and AMD’s EPYC a right scare.
AMD's next-gen UDNA GPU leaks
New GFX13 architecture sneaks into the spotlight
AMD’s next-gen GPU architecture has leaked all over the web, and it looks like the chipmaker is ready to ditch RDNA for something it is either calling UDNA or RDNA 5, depending on which way the wind is blowing.
Linux boss blames autocorrect for typo mayhem
IT's Mr Sweary, Linus Torvalds has binned his low-profile keyboard and rejoined the noisy mechanical brigade.
Google increases Android's anti-theft walls
Factory Reset Protection gets some teeth
Google is giving Android’s Factory Reset Protection (FRP) a badly needed kick up the backside, promising to make stolen phones even more useless than before by spotting setup wizard dodges and forcing a second reset until ownership is nailed down.
Another Spectre hole
Troubled Chipzilla has managed another spectacular security belly-flop, with researchers finding a shiny new hole in all modern Intel CPUs that leaks data from privileged software like the operating system kernel.
Foxconn enjoys a profit boom
But warns of trouble ahead
Foxconn has reported 91 per cent surge in profit this quarter but warned that it is cutting its full-year outlook over US tariff games.
Fresh layoffs at Microsoft
More than 6,000 Voles to go
Software King of the World, Microsoft is sharpening the axe again, swinging for three per cent of its global workforce to strip out middle managers and trim its flabby international operations.
Trump tightens noose on Huawei’s AI chips
US crackdown targets global users of Chinese tech
Donald Trump’s administration has warned that using artificial intelligence chips from Huawei could land companies worldwide with criminal penalties for violating US export controls.