More than 30 per cent of users eye Samsung and Google foldables

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might want to look away from the latest SellCell survey, which suggests nearly a third of its faithful are thinking of jumping ship.

Galaxy Z Fold 7 joins its predecessor in the paint-peeling party

Samsung’s fancy Galaxy Z Fold 7 has started showing signs of cosmetic decay, with users moaning that the paint is flaking off their near-$2,000 foldables.

Hollow-core cable could mean faster clouds and greener networks

A group of networking boffins bankrolled by Microsoft have emerged from their smoke filled lab claiming that they’ve broken a major speed and latency barrier with a new hollow-core fibre design.

Connecting the unconnected now five times more than predicted

The International Telecommunication Union, the UN’s tech arm, says hooking up the world to the Internet by 2030 will cost $2.6-$2.8 trillion, before anyone logs on.

Marc Benioff calls mass layoffs “exciting” as job cuts accelerate

The CEO of Salesforce has been telling everyone+dog how artificial intelligence has helped him give 4,000 workers the boot and he’s rather chuffed with himself.

Open-sauce driver breathes new life into 20-year-old GPUs

While Microsoft long ago lobbed support for ATI’s ancient R300-series GPUs into the skip, Linux developers are still quietly keeping the lights on for hardware that predates most influencers.

Core Ultra 5 235HX punches above its weight in early benchmarks

While Intel's desktop Arrow Lake CPUs turned out to be all mouth and no trousers, its mobile Arrow Lake-HX line appears to be the opposite, turning in surprisingly strong results where it counts.

Big Tech to pay more as Taiwan foundry feels the squeeze

TSMC is about to squeeze more cash out of its clients by jacking up prices on its swankiest silicon. The Taiwanese foundry giant is planning a five to ten per cent hike on advanced nodes like 5nm, 4nm, 3nm and 2nm, to prop up its declining profit margins.

Bill Gates and Nvidia back Commonwealth’s plan to bottle a star

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has hoovered up another $863 million in fresh capital to fuel its dream of turning nuclear fusion into a commercial energy business that doesn’t melt the budget.

China’s silicon brigade tries to fill the GPU hole with homebrew parts

Chinese cloud giant Alibaba has wheeled out a shiny new AI chip, hoping to plug the silicon hole left after Nvidia was kicked in the export rules by Uncle Sam.