Trump’s tariffs torch big tech
Silicon Valley in melt down
Big Tech just got a bloody nose thanks to Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s latest trade war tantrum.
Chipzilla crawls to TSMC for a lifeline
White House pushes joint venture to keep Intel’s fabs under American control.
Troubled Chipzilla has reportedly struck a tentative deal with TSMC to form a joint venture aimed at bailing out Intel’s faltering fab operations in the US — with Apple’s chip supplier securing a 20 percent stake.
Italy’s Piracy Shield headed for national disaster
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.
Meta's Llama 4 stampede begins
Scout, Maverick and a monster called Behemoth
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled four new Llama models, describing it as a “milestone for Meta AI and open source” in a slick video posted to Instagram and Facebook this weekend.
Vole’s top trio roasted by its own bot
AI cracks jokes as Microsoft marks half a century
The Software King of the World Microsoft celebrated its 50th birthday by wheeling out all three of its CEOs for a bit of self-inflicted ridicule—with help from its AI lapdog, Copilot.
RTX 5090’s fiery flaw isn’t going anywhere
Nvidia’s melted mess torches another $2,900 GPU
Another RTX 5090 has gone up in smoke. Reddit user Roachard shared photos of a charred MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC, revealing a meltdown that took out both the graphics card and the power supply cables.
Samsung flogs 61 AI-infused tellies in Korea
“True AI TV “
Samsung has unveiled its 2025 TV lineup in South Korea, marking the beginning of what it calls the "True AI TV" era.
AI hype fizzles, but $644 billion is still on the table
Gartner says GenAI hits a “Trough of Disillusionment”
Despite a slew of gimmicky flops and creeping consumer scepticism, the generative AI bandwagon is still rolling along.
Vole punts pricey plastic brick for cloudy PCs
Dumb and dumber
The Software King of the World has officially released its Windows 365 Link—a dinky $349 (£349) black box that connects users to Windows Cloud PCs running in Azure.
iPhone starts installing random Chinese apps
iOS 18.4 "feature" shoves Chinese games onto iPhones without asking
Some iPhone users updating to iOS 18.4 are getting more than they bargained for—namely, surprise apps appearing on their Home Screens, including dubious-looking games like Cooking Mama and Squid Game knockoffs.