Oracle faces curse of OpenAI
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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.

Cloudflare stumble knocks swathes of the internet offline
Published in Cloud


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.

Meta skates past FTC in monopoly fight
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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.

TSMC discovers the American dream costs a fortune
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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.

Apple rumoured to be giving up on the Mac Pro
Published in PC Hardware


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.