Who would have thunk that riding naked humans would cause such a stink?

Valve has confirmed that it reviewed and pre-emptively banned the surreal horror Horses game after parts of the store page set off alarm bells, prompting the company to demand a full build review.

The Fruity Cargo Cult whinges that it might be fined billions

India’s new antitrust law has given its competition watchdog the freedom to calculate penalties using global turnover, and Job’s Mob is already clutching its pearls about the consequences.

Google tests a more intelligent hotspot mode

Android has long made setting up a mobile hotspot easy, although the default settings leave you crawling along when the hardware can do far better.

Shower ESA with fresh billions

Europe’s space ministers have lobbed a hefty wedge of money at the European Space Agency and, for the first time, told it to build hardware meant for soldiers as well as civilians.

Partners stack colossal borrowings around the start-up

OpenAI’s rise looks flashier than a Vegas strip as its data centre pals rack up eye-watering loans so the chatbot darling can scale without sweating the repayments.

Pitches ROCm as the antidote to Nvidia’s walled garden

AMD reckons it can win over AI developers by offering an open software ecosystem rather than locking everything behind a proprietary moat.

Insists it has done nothing wrong as talent wars flare up

Troubled Chipzilla is digging in after TSMC accused one of its newly hired vice presidents of breaching a nondisclosure agreement.

Chops thousands of jobs while warning of pricier memory and weaker profits

HP, maker of expensive printer ink, is lopping thousands of heads as it scrambles to tame costs and bolt more AI into its product pipeline.

Leans on pricey AI servers to keep the wheels spinning

The Grey Box Shifter, Dell is surfing an AI boom that props up its headline numbers even as the rest of its empire looks like it needs a sit-down.

Tokyo tries to claw its way back into the chip big leagues

Japan has decided to pour more than a trillion yen [€6.38 billion] into Rapidus as it scrabbles to shore up its economic security through a homegrown semiconductor supply chain.