Apple dumps chargers from European MacBook Pro boxes
Charges fanboys for EU environmental policy
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has decided that Europeans don’t deserve a charger with their shiny new 14-inch MacBook Pro sporting the M5 chip and will have to pay extra.
Blackrock’s splashes $20 billion on data centre outfit
Larry Fink’s latest bet shows AI mania still has plenty of cash to burn
Investment outfit BlackRock is throwing serious money at the plumbing behind artificial intelligence.
Advania claims it will build sovereign AI clouds
Goldman Sachs-backed firm bets on local data
Nordic IT services outfit Advania, which is part of Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ portfolio, has decided to splash out on building multi-tenant sovereign AI clouds in every one of its seven markets.
Blighty workers still think hackers only target the big fish
Cohesity Research shows small firms remain sitting ducks
A third of UK workers reckon hackers only go after big corporations and that small businesses are beneath their notice.
Intel unveils Crescent Island AI GPU
Ditches HBM for LPDDR5X in cost-cutter data centre gamble
Troubled Chipzilla has wheeled out a new AI inference GPU for data centres, codenamed Crescent Island, in a bid to claw back some relevance in a market where it has experienced an abattoir of hope.
Apple about to lose grip over TSMC
Fruity cargo cult’s chip clout under threat
The fruity cargo cult Apple may be about to lose its long-held grip over TSMC as Nvidia muscles in with a deluge of orders for high-performance computing parts and AI kit.
Software engineering standards have plummeted
Engineer slams normalised bloat and forgotten basics
Engineer Denis Stetskov has called time on what he sees as an era of software rot, pointing out that the fruity cargo cult Apple managed to ship a calculator app that leaks 32GB of RAM and no one gave a toss.
Oracle’s twin CEOs push AI data centre splurge
Insist OpenAI gamble will pay off
Oracle’s new dual boss setup has come out swinging in defence of its expensive data centre expansion, insisting the firm is uniquely placed to make artificial intelligence useful for businesses.
US was behind Dutch Nexperia take over
Washington’s long reach in tech power games
US officials were behind the Dutch government's surprise take over of Nexperia.
Nvidia’s 800v power push jolts Mediatek and Bizlink
Vera Rubin platform ushers in power revolution for AI data centres
Graphics giant Nvidia has kicked off what it claims is a data centre power revolution, announcing its next-gen Vera Rubin platform and dragging the world into the 800-volt direct current age.