
Thin Mini-ITX MoDT board crams in a laptop-class monster APU
Chinese PC maker Sixunited has just released a new toy for tinkerers. It is a Thin Mini-ITX motherboard packed with AMD’s Strix Halo “Ryzen AI MAX” APU, a chip previously only found in laptops and mini PCs.

Stargate turning into a tire fire
Trump-backed $500 billion AI moonshot already stalling
The $500 billion Stargate project, trumpeted at the White House as America’s grand AI leap forward, is looking more like a tire fire than the start of a golden age.

Microsoft can’t keep EU data out of US paws
Cloud Act clashes with Europe’s fantasy of digital sovereignty
Software King of the World, Microsoft has admitted it cannot keep French citizen data safe from the reach of US authorities, even when it is locked up in EU data centres.

UK businesses plunge into AI without a safety net
Firms embrace AI, but governance is something that happens to other people
While 93 per cent of UK organisations dabble with AI, but only a pitiful seven per cent have proper governance frameworks in place.

Intel kills off Clear Linux in cost-cutting purge
Performance-tuned distro joins Deep Link in the corporate graveyard
Intel has axed Clear Linux, its high-performance Linux distro that spent the last decade squeezing every drop of speed out of x86-64 chips.