Ryzen 9800X3D flies off shelves as Core Ultra 200S faceplants

AMD’s Ryzen army continues to stomp on Troubled Chipzilla’s silicon dreams, with March 2025 sales figures showing Ryzen chips practically owning Amazon’s CPU charts in the US.

Microsoft trims data centre ambitions

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, is quietly pulling back on data centre projects from Chicago to Jakarta as jitters grow over AI demand forecasts and the cost of building its cloudy empire.

Odd really, if it were not for the French, America would be speaking English

Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump has fired another shot in his trade tantrum, this time slapping a 20 per cent tariff on tech imports from the EU—twice what the UK copped, and still lighter than the 32 per cent brick dropped on Switzerland.

DOGE staffer gets eyes on therapy records of vulnerable migrant kids

One of Elon [Roman Salute] Musk’s DOGE foot soldiers has his mitts on a US government database packed with trauma and mental health records of unaccompanied migrant children.

BIOS update sorts it

AMD claims to have fixed a bricking problem with its Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a BIOS update.

Panther Lake to be first guinea pig

Troubled Chipzilla has just pushed its long-delayed 18A node into "risk production"—the transitional stage before actual mass manufacturing—signalling that real chips might finally roll off the line by year’s end.

$450 for more pixels, power and features

Nintendo finally spilled the beans about the long-awaited Switch 2, telling the gathered throngs during  Direct that it will hit the shelves on 5 June, priced at $450.

Global sweep bags 79 twisted punters 

Inspector Knacker of the Europol yard took a blowtorch to one of the foulest corners of the dark web—KidFlix, a global kiddie fiddling network where scumbags scored child abuse clips by flinging crypto or uploading filth of their own.

Software King of the World goes full retro, slings Altair BASIC source for the nostalgia crowd

The Software King of the World, Sir William Gates III, is marking Microsoft’s 50th birthday by releasing the digital equivalent of a baby photo onto the internet—a 150-page slab of Intel 8080 assembly code from Altair BASIC. This code launched the empire.

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.