Musk’s Starlink in nepotism row
Exiting commerce official whistleblows
A departing Commerce Department official dropped a scathing farewell email accusing Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s administration of lining Elon [Roman salute] Musk’s already bulging pockets with taxpayer cash.
Motherboard soap opera ends in tragedy
BIOS update saga ends
The poor sod who had the PC-building world biting their nails over a BIOS update saga that lasted longer than many marriages has finally admitted defeat.
Trump using TSMC as a protection fee
Taiwan former president furious
Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou has accused Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump of forcing TSMC into paying what amounts to a “protection fee” by moving more of its operations to the US.
MSI snubs AMD’s RDNA 4 lineup
Agreed to see other people
MSI has quietly ghosted AMD’s latest Radeon GPUs, skipping the entire RDNA 4 lineup and leaving the Radeon RX 9070 series without one of its usual partners.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System improves over time
Like a fine wine – if wine makes Mario jump higher
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) console is somehow improving as it ages.
Bolt Graphics brings RISC-V to the GPU market
Hail Zeus
Bolt Graphics, a startup out of Sunnyvale, California, has announced its Zeus GPU platform, promising to thrash Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads.
Meta’s book censorship efforts backfire
Mr Zuckerburg met Barbra Streisand
Meta has proven that nothing sells a book faster than a censorship attempt.
Google’s AI solves 10-year-old superbug problem
Researchers wondered if they had been wasting their lives
Google’s latest AI experiment has compressed a decade’s worth of painstaking microbiological research into a two-day thunk.
Bluesky mulls selling data for AI
And archiving
Bluesky, the social network that wants to be the anti-Twitter has decided to explore the murky waters of AI data scraping.
Cursor AI refused to help developer
Learn to code you lazy git
A hapless developer using the Cursor AI-powered coding tool ran into an unexpected roadblock when, after about 800 lines of code, the AI threw up its hands and refused to continue, instead doling out some unsolicited career advice.