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.