Apple fanboys snap up pricey iPhone Pocket without blinking
Limited edition sock proves taste is optional if it has an Apple label
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has sold out its iPhone Pocket, which is selling so well despite being an overpriced sock.
Quantum boffins sort out error correction
Harvard types claim to have tamed their twitchy qubits
Harvard researchers have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have stitched together enough error correction to stop quantum computers wandering off into la-la land.
Buffett signals trouble in Apple's orchard
Long-time believer wanders toward Alphabet
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has just done the unthinkable and taken a $4.3 billion bite out of Alphabet while casually trimming its once worshipful stake in the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple.
Apple lines up its next grand poohbah
Cook edges toward the exit
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is cranking up its succession machinery as Tim Cook prepares to shuffle off the chief executive perch as early as next year, according to several people whispering into the Financial Times’ ear.
Samsung is stuck paying for Qualcomm chipsets
Weak Exynos yields and contract penalties keep Snapdragon in charge
Samsung’s next Galaxy flagships are shaping up to be a pricey headache as the dark satanic rumour mill claims the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will power about 75 per cent of Galaxy S26 models worldwide.
Ubisoft slams the brakes on trading and earnings release
A last-minute freeze that reeks of trouble
Ubisoft torched its own timetable by delaying its half-year earnings with only 15 minutes to go, then asking Euronext to halt trading in its shares and bonds.
Asus brags that its pricey ROG Ally is selling like hot chips
High-end handhelds vanish
Asus has joined the parade of companies waving quarterly numbers at investors, and its chief financial officer, Nick Wu, used the Q3 2025 call to gush about the latest ROG Ally machines, which were launched last month, with Microsoft’s Xbox crew lurking in the background.
Apple flubs its own AI support list
Manages to confuse everyone with one tiny edit
Someone at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been tinkering with its Apple Intelligence pages again, and the result is the usual delightfully shambolic mess.
Brussels lines up Alphabet for another kicking
EU watchdogs reckon Google has been fiddling with news rankings again
Brussels is sharpening its knives for Alphabet with a fresh probe into how Google ranks news outlets in search results.
Oracle spooks markets with AI binge
Heavy debts rattle investors already twitchy about runaway AI spending
Oracle has taken a wallop as tech stocks and bonds tank, landing far harder than its Big Tech pals thanks to its colossal borrowing spree to muscle into the AI circus, which has rattled the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street something fierce.