More tools, more chaos

Investment in data streaming is ballooning as firms chase AI dreams yet find themselves tangled in a growing thicket of platforms.

Big Red’s grand AI punt keeps shredding its own valuation

Oracle’s market value has been sliding like a greased ferret since 10 September, when it trumpeted its $300bn deal with OpenAI and watched roughly $315bn vanish in the process.

Morning traffic surge sends major sites into a tailspin

A sudden Cloudflare meltdown on Tuesday morning left large chunks of the internet wheezing as sites from social media to retail and transport threw up baffling error messages.

Judge bins antitrust bid to break up Facebook parent

A federal judge has tossed the latest swipe from the Federal Trade Commission at Meta, leaving the social networking giant looking rather smug.

Arizona Fab’s profits fall off a cliff

TSMC’s big Arizona adventure was supposed to be a landmark moment for the US chip industry, although it now looks more like an expensive lesson in why fabs prefer cheaper postcodes.

Why does it even exist?

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Apple is about to walk away from its Mac Pro range.

Diamond Rapids loses its low-end twin as the server world shifts to fatter memory pipes.

Troubled Chipzilla has binned the eight-channel Diamond Rapids design that was supposed to replace today’s Granite Rapids-SP Xeon 6700P and 6500P chips.

$10,000 down the loo

A $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation card reportedly snapped under its own weight during a house move, becoming a pricey brick.

Zelnick reckons consoles stay alive, but the real action moves elsewhere.

Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick fired a shot across the bow by saying the games business is drifting toward PCs as the next decade rolls in.

IoT junk kit gangs up for the biggest cloud-crunching flood yet.

Microsoft engineers said the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps distributed denial-of-service barrage against Azure and sprayed more than 3.6 billion packets per second at one unlucky Australian endpoint.