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Infineon unveils optimised eSIM for consumer gear
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Claims it is the world's smallest GSMA-compliant eSIM

Infineon Technologies has claimed to have created the world's smallest GSMA-compliant eSIM solution.

Wall Street melts down over Chinese AI upstart
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Hardware share prices crash

In a moment of true stupidity, Wall Street's cocaine nose jobs created a panic in NASDAQ shares yesterday after it was revealed that a Chinese AI upstart had managed to get an AI running with less hardware and power than the West.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 cards are nearly here
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Newegg has them listed

Nvidia's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 cards will be available on 30 January at 6 am.

iPhone has a new broken alarm feature
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Monday, 27 January 2025 11:47

iPhone has a new broken alarm feature


Claims to be on it

Members of the Apple fruity cargo cult are incandescent with rage after the alarms on their shiny toys stop working. This means that many of them are sleeping and missing work.  

Microsoft was in the middle of the Gaza Conflict.
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Flogged cloud and AI to the IDF

A leaked document from Israel’s Defense Ministry and files acquired from Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary show that the software king of the world has been deeply involved in the Gaza conflict.

Nvidia starts killing off Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
Published in Graphics


GeForce driver support future uncertain

Tom’s Hardware has noticed that Nvidia's release notes for CUDA 12.8 show Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs are set to transition to the legacy driver branch and will self-identify as “dead as a dodo.”

Boffins save 30 per cent on data centre power bills
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Made some minor changes to Linux code

A team of boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a string of Linux code that they think can save 30 per cent on a data centre's power bill.

Tech oligarchs consider buying TikTok
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Monday, 27 January 2025 09:53

Tech oligarchs consider buying TikTok


Bytedance still involved 

A new plan which would keep TikTok available in the US, but under the control of a group of companies including Oracle and Microsoft is being negotiated by the White House.

Tech billionaire shares his son’s very personal data online
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Stand tall son

Tech billionaire Bryan Johnson (right), who is obsessed with trying to live forever via an elaborate anti-ageing regimen, has shared his teenage son’s very personal data online.

Musk in a bind over Tesla’s clean energy products
Published in Transportation


Making a killing in an area which is unpopular with the White House

Swasticar maker Elon [look at me] Musk is in a bit of a bind as new numbers show that his firms are making a fortune out of clean energy and now can store it.