
Starve ransomware gangs of easy cash
The UK government plans to stop public sector bodies and critical infrastructure operators from paying off ransomware crooks, even if it means enduring painful outages.

Sony tests PS5 power saver mode
New feature will throttle games to cut energy use
Sony is fiddling with a new Power Saver mode for the PlayStation 5, promising lower power consumption at the cost of reduced performance.

Palmer Luckey wants to build made-in-America laptops
Oculus and Anduril founder reckons some Yanks will pay extra
The bloke behind Oculus and the defence-tech darling Anduril, Palmer Luckey wants to take on laptops. But not your usual “assembled in the States with bits from Shenzhen” nonsense. He’s wants to build a Made in USA machine that ticks the Federal Trade Commission’s uncompromising box.

OpenAI's UK arm swimming in cash after ChatGPT boom
Profits soar while government rolls out the red carpet
OpenAI’s Blighty outfit has gone from pocket change to piles of cash in barely a year.

AMD's triple-slot RX 7000 cooler leaks
Three 8-pins, three slots, and three years too late
Sometimes cancelled products often reveal more than those that launch. A leaked Radeon RX 7000-series cooler, unknowingly bought on a Chinese marketplace, has dwarfed an RX 7900 XTX when compared.