Developers forced to code like cavemen

Panic erupted among developers yesterday when Anthropic’s Claude went belly up for half an hour, forcing them to write code using their own brains.

AI boom keep the tills ringing

TSMC has just clocked up its busiest August in history, pulling in 3357.72 billion yuan (€96.1 billion), a 3.9 per cent rise month-on-month and 33.8 per cent up year-on-year.

Intel hauls out big silicon and hopes gamers will bite

Troubled Chipzilla is gearing up for the release of its top Battlemage GPU, the Arc B770, and if shipping manifests are to be believed, it's already packing crates.

Rack-sized monster to crush token counts

Nvidia has decided that building GPUs the size of small towns is the way to stay ahead in AI, and its latest weapon is the Rubin CPX which is aimed squarely at inferencing and large context models.

Cisco and Palo Alto ride the SD-WAN gravy train

The Secure Access Service Edge market has seen a 22 per cent jump in revenue year-on-year, reaching $2.7 billion in the second quarter of 2025.

Taiwanese foundry forced to plan packaging a year in advance

TSMC is finding itself on the back foot as demand for its advanced packaging tech has exploded thanks to the AI chip gold rush, with firms like Nvidia breathing down its neck.

Fruity Cargo Cult tries to wow punters with pointless thinness

The new iPhone Air is so thin it might snap in a stiff breeze and even the die-hard Apple fanboys aren't cheering.

AI is cool for Catz

Oracle has stopped sulking about being late to cloud and is banging on about how it has become a must-have for the AI set.

Promises path tracing to rival DLSS 4

AMD has confirmed that its long-teased FSR Redstone tech is still on track for a 2025 release, with a full presentation expected later this year.

Volvo’s lasers scarred my camera

YouTube tech celeb Marques Brownlee, better known as MKBHD, has discovered that his expensive iPhone 16 Pro camera can be permanently cooked by the lasers from self-driving cars.