Google rolls out Ironwood AI chip
Published in AI
Friday, 18 April 2025 10:27

Google rolls out Ironwood AI chip


TPU muscles into inference turf with 9,216 chip clusters

Google is forging ahead with Ironwood—a new AI chip gunning for Nvidia’s crown.

Google’s ad racket faces federal hammering
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Judge calls monopoly move illegal

A federal judge has torn into Google’s ad tech stranglehold, ruling the company illegally built monopoly power that let it hike prices and pocket fat margins on web advertising.

Google adds stealth reboot feature to Android phones
Published in Mobiles


Locks down user data

Android phones are about to get a stealthy security upgrade to Google Play Services (version 25.14) which introduces an “auto-restart” feature that locks devices after three days of inactivity, effectively shielding sensitive data.

Google Cloud dives deeper into AMD
Published in Cloud
Friday, 11 April 2025 11:39

Google Cloud dives deeper into AMD


Zen 5 power lands in C4D and H4D machines for HPC and AI

Google Cloud has thrown its lot further in with AMD, unveiling C4D and H4D virtual machines packed with 5th Gen EPYC silicon aimed at boosting performance across cloud workloads.

Italy’s Piracy Shield headed for national disaster
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From absurd copyright overkill to outright national security risk

Italy’s Piracy Shield is already a digital farce — now it’s teetering on the edge of becoming a full-blown national disaster. 

Google wants to zap power through your phone’s face
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Worked out a new way to charge your phone

 A newly published US patent from Google details a novel yet clever plan to embed a wireless charging coil beneath the smartphone’s display, enabling devices to function as both receivers and power donors.

Apple misses court date
Published in News
Thursday, 27 March 2025 11:54

Apple misses court date


Might miss $20 billion too

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has taken a legal punch to the wallet after a US appeals court told it to sit down and shut up during the juicy remedy phase of Google's ongoing antitrust saga.

Cloud engineers are top AI users
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 10:38

Cloud engineers are top AI users


Cybersecurity plays catch-up

Cloud Engineers are the new AI overlords, leaving everyone else to squabble over second place, according to a new report.

Scaling up will not solve AI problems
Published in AI
Monday, 24 March 2025 11:09

Scaling up will not solve AI problems


Boffins tell Big Tech to stop sniffing GPU fumes 

The people who build artificial intelligence have finally acknowledged have warned that endlessly increasing hardware for AI models is about as effective as solving climate change by buying more SUVs.

Italy orders Google to poison its public DNS
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Because someone streamed football

Italy’s war on internet piracy has taken a sharp turn into the absurd, with the Court of Milan now ordering the world’s largest search engine to poison its own public DNS servers.