Microsoft wants to ditch Nvidia and AMD for its own silicon
Vole needs a bit of leverage
Software King of the World, Microsoft has decided it no longer wants to live under the silicon thumb of AMD or Nvidia and wants to rely more on its home brew chips.
		    
		  
		  
		  			
			Mice can rat on users
High-DPI peripherals into creepy little spies
A group of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a way of turning a RGB gaming mouse into a spy.
		    
		  
		  
		  			
			Apple prepares for its coronation as Cook eyes "exit"
New king needed as gadgets grow stale
It seems the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is preparing for a royal succession, with Bloomberg whispering that hardware boss John Ternus is the chosen heir to Tim Cook’s polished aluminium throne.
		    
		  
		  
		  			
			IBM says consultancies must turn into software firms or die
Big Blue’s consulting boss warns that AI agents are coming for the old guard
IBM Consulting boss Mohamad Ali has warned that consultancies will have to reinvent themselves as software companies if they want to survive the artificial intelligence revolution.
		    
		  
		  
		  			
			
Money maths doesn't add up
OpenAI is signing about $1 trillion (€940 billion) in deals this year for computing power to keep its artificial intelligence dreams humming.