Weak Exynos yields and contract penalties keep Snapdragon in charge

Samsung’s next Galaxy flagships are shaping up to be a pricey headache as the dark satanic rumour mill claims the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will power about 75 per cent of Galaxy S26 models worldwide.

A last-minute freeze that reeks of trouble

Ubisoft torched its own timetable by delaying its half-year earnings with only 15 minutes to go, then asking Euronext to halt trading in its shares and bonds.

High-end handhelds vanish

Asus has joined the parade of companies waving quarterly numbers at investors, and its chief financial officer, Nick Wu, used the Q3 2025 call to gush about the latest ROG Ally machines, which were launched last month, with Microsoft’s Xbox crew lurking in the background.

Manages to confuse everyone with one tiny edit

Someone at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been tinkering with its Apple Intelligence pages again, and the result is the usual delightfully shambolic mess.

EU watchdogs reckon Google has been fiddling with news rankings again

Brussels is sharpening its knives for Alphabet with a fresh probe into how Google ranks news outlets in search results.

Heavy debts rattle investors already twitchy about runaway AI spending

Oracle has taken a wallop as tech stocks and bonds tank, landing far harder than its Big Tech pals thanks to its colossal borrowing spree to muscle into the AI circus, which has rattled the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street something fierce.

Fancy first dibs on AI silicon

Brown box shifter Amazon is standing next to the software King of the World, Microsoft, in cheering new US laws that would clip Nvidia’s exports to China.

Only Apple could glorify a pouch as a lifestyle revolution.

The fruity cargo cultists in Cupertino have teamed up with fashion house ISSEY MIYAKE to unveil the iPhone Pocket, which is essentially a knitted phone sock costing more than a halfway decent budget handset.

Outfit promises cosmic performance from a chip that exists only on paper.

Tachyum has rolled out fresh specs for its upcoming Prodigy Universal Processor and the sheet reads like someone let a marketing intern loose with a calculator.

Epic dishes out a fresh toolkit stuffed with visual wizardry.

Epic has lobbed Unreal Engine 5.7 at developers, and the thing arrives with enough graphical muscle to make rival engines look like they are running on a wheezing toaster.