HP dodges blame for sabotaging its printers
Published in News


Pays lawyers instead of customers

A US District Court judge has approved a settlement between the makers of expensive printer ink, HP, and a group of furious customers who were understandably miffed that their printers were rendered inoperable by an unwanted firmware update.

Physicists create LED pixels smaller than a virus
Published in Graphics


For very small screens

A team of Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs having created a pixel which is smaller than a virus.

Clearview AI tried to buy 690 million arrest records
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What could possibly go wrong?

Surveillance-snoop-for-hire Clearview AI attempted to snap up nearly 700 million arrest records and 390 million mugshots—complete with Social Security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers.

UK bosses are too terrified to check their carbon sins
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Fear being cancelled instead of greened.

Nearly half of UK business leaders are reportedly too afraid to examine their own emissions data—presumably for fear it might confirm that their companies have been contributing to global warming at a rate similar to that of a Tesco rotisserie chicken.

Gelsinger claims Nvidia’s AI GPUs are overpriced
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Jensen just got lucky on AI

It appears that former troubled Chipzilla CEO Pat Gelsinger is still upset about Nvidia’s AI dominance, taking a swipe at Jensen Huang’s pricing strategy and implying that Nvidia’s meteoric rise in AI was more a matter of luck than strategy.

Belgian prosecutors charge five in European Parliament bribery scandal
Published in News


Linked to Huawei

Inspector Nasher of the Brussels Yard has fingered the collar of five individuals in connection with a bribery investigation that reportedly has ties to China’s tech giant, Huawei.

EU tells Apple to open its Walled Garden
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Thursday, 20 March 2025 10:17

EU tells Apple to open its Walled Garden


Jobs’ Mob throws its toys out of the pram

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has once again found itself on the wrong side of EU regulators, who have ordered the tech giant to stop sitting behind its walled garden and open up to rivals.

LG throws in the towel on XR
Published in IoT
Thursday, 20 March 2025 10:13

LG throws in the towel on XR


Air conditioners are more exciting

LG has decided that the world of extended reality (XR) is not worth the hassle and is backing out of commercialising any new products.

CTO and TDF sign deal for VLEO satellite network
Published in Mobiles


Saving Europe from Starlink

Constellation Technologies & Operations (CTO) and telecom infrastructure firm TDF have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to integrate Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellites into terrestrial networks.

Jensen Huang left out of Intel buyout gossip
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Not even on the guest list

Nvidia’s leather-jacketed overlord, Jensen Huang, has confirmed that his company was not approached about purchasing a stake in the troubled chipmaker Intel.