AMD U-turns on RDNA driver fiasco
Red faces in Radeon land after driver chaos and user revolt
After a torrent of angry users, botched uploads and contradictory statements, AMD has published a full web page promising to keep supporting its older Radeon graphics cards after all.
Microsoft throws $9.7 billion at crypto miners for AI muscle
IREN deal gives Redmond a mountain of Nvidia GPUs
Software King of the World, Microsoft has decided that the best way to stay on top of the AI arms race is to buy its way there.
China provides cheap juice for AI datacentres
Beijing cuts power bills for data centres that ditch Nvidia
China has decided that if its homegrown AI chips can’t beat Nvidia on power, it’ll just make electricity cheap enough not to care.
Palantir boasts war profits while investors leg it
AI arms dealer raises forecast as global bloodshed boosts bottom line
Anti-christ fearing Peter Thiel’s spook-friendly outfit Palantir is rubbing its hands as war and instability send its sales rocketing, even if the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are suddenly having second thoughts.
TSMC’s 2nm race heats up
Qualcomm and MediaTek join Apple at the front line
The semiconductor arms race has entered another round, with TSMC speeding ahead on its 2nm roadmap.
Gigabyte smashes DDR5 records
Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE
Gigabyte has grabbed the top three spots in the global DDR5 overclocking leaderboard, thanks to its Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard and a touch of frosty engineering.
Trump shuts door on Nvidia's Blackwell chips for China
US blocks AI exports once again
Nvidia's hopes of sliding back into China’s lucrative AI market have been crushed, as President Trump confirmed that the company’s new Blackwell chips will not be cleared for export.
Cloudflare rebuilds its internet engine in Rust
A 25 per cent performance bump
Interweb bouncer Cloudflare has spent the past year ripping out the guts of its global traffic system and replacing them with something Rusty.
Musk makes Wikipedia even worse
Elon’s latest cosmic ego trip is a complete disaster
Elon Musk's AI powered version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia is so bad it makes the online encyclopaedia powered by fake penis experts waving their imagined doctorates look good.
AI groups race to plug prompt injection bugs
Industry teams try to stop criminals tricking chatbots into spilling secrets
Big language AI models are under a sustained assault and the tech world is scrambling to patch the holes.