Wayland-only desktop and a Rusty twist

Canonical has unleashed Ubuntu 25.10, cheerily codenamed Questing Quokka, with a fresh Linux 6.17 kernel, a shiny GNOME 49 desktop, and a bag full of tinkering changes sure to delight or infuriate long-time users.

Beijing serious about cutting Nvidia out of its tech diet

China has gone full throttle in enforcing tighter controls on semiconductor imports, as the Middle Kingdom pushes to purge its tech sector of American hardware, particularly from Nvidia.

OpenAI boss warns

OpenAI, CEO, Sam Altman, has poured cold water on swapping to Intel’s foundry, saying he’d rather the Taiwan giant simply built more.

Leadership wanted to avoid US culture-war pile-on

Ubisoft canned a 19th-century Assassin’s Creed in 2024, set after the American Civil War because it would tackle issues like slavery, the rise of the KKK and racial prejudice which some US think is "talked up" too much.

“Clever” but the deal raises funding questions

Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, said he is surprised Advanced Micro Devices would offer OpenAI warrants worth about 10 per cent of itself.

Enterprises rush refreshes while consumers tag along

Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and divided by their collective shoe size and reckons the PC market just clocked its best quarter in years.

Georgetown site bought for a US build

Pegatron has finally yelled “Made in the USA”, snapping up a factory and land in Georgetown, Texas for production and operations.

DRAM Shortages bite

The world’s second largest memory module maker ADATA and Taiwan’s number two TEAMGROUP have paused quotations, signalling a market hotter than punters expected and rising prices.

Performance beats forecasts 

TSMC pulled in around NT$330.98 billion [US$11.41 billion] in consolidated revenue in September 2025, down 1.4 per cent from August but up 31.4 per cent year on year, marking a new record for the month.

16-pin power plug problems continue to plague Nvidia’s flagship GPUs

Another MSI GeForce RTX 5090 owner has reported the familiar smell of burning plastic, after the card’s 16-pin power connector melted not once but twice in just a few weeks.