Arm brings DLSS-style AI graphics to Android
Neural Super Sampling promises sharper mobile gaming without torching your battery
Graphics on your Android phone might finally stop looking like pixel soup, thanks to Arm’s latest Neural Super Sampling tech, shown off at SIGGRAPH 2025.
Musk threatens to sue Apple over Grok snub
Claims Cupertino favours OpenAI
Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, accusing it of stacking the App Store rankings against his Grok chatbot.
Perplexity offers $34.5bn to buy Chrome
AI upstart reckons it can do Google’s job better
Perplexity has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer to buy the Chrome browser, even though the AI firm is only worth about half that much.
China leans on Nvidia chip buyers
Beijing pressures tech firms to explain why they’re not buying local silicon
The Middle Kingdom’s bureaucrats are making life more difficult for Nvidia by questioning Chinese tech giants about their reasons for ordering the US chipmaker’s H20 AI processors.
Quantum computing arms race heats up
Everyone wants to build the first machine that does something useful
The long-held fantasy of quantum computing is now looking more like a knuckle-busting engineering war.
Trump softens stance on Intel boss
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gets a warmer than expected reception from the White House
It looks like President Trump is no longer gunning for troubled Chipzilla chief executive Lip-Bu Tan’s head.
AMD kills off last AM4 gaming chip
Ryzen 7 5700X3D shipments halted
AMD appears to have pulled the plug on its Ryzen 7 5700X3D, ending the run of X3D CPUs for the company’s long-lived AM4 platform.
Nvidia straps Blackwell GPUs into more enterprise servers
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell heads for mainstream 2U systems
Nvidia is stuffing its RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs into the world’s most popular enterprise server designs, claiming it will help companies ditch slow CPU-only boxes for faster, more efficient accelerated computing.
AOL pulls the plug on its dial-up dinosaur
After 34 years, the screech of the modem is no more
AOL has decided to kill off its dial-up internet service at the end of September, bringing the curtain down on a relic of the early web.
US consumers paying for Big Tech’s bargain power bills
Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward
State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.