German state expels Microsoft
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Schleswig-Holstein doesn’t want teams


The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is revolting and ditching the software King of the world, Microsoft, from its public sector.

Rice boffins cook up Frankenstein's glaphene chip
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Bends the rules of physics and common sense

Materials scientists at Rice University have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a new type of computer chip build from a fusion of graphene and silica glass called glaphene.

Troubled Chipzilla might chop itself up
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The answer to years of failure could be to admit it can't do everything

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street reckon Troubled Chipzilla might need to smash itself into pieces if it wants to claw out of its long-running tech and financial woes, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Apple’s AI paper gets push-back from other boffins
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Probably because it doesn't understand what it's doing

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s research paper, pompously titled The Illusion of Thinking, which confidently claimed that large reasoning models (LRMs) collapse when asked to do anything clever, is faulty, according to a top boffin.

Qualcomm plans dual-variant Snapdragon 8 Elite 3
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Built on 2 nm

Qualcomm looks set to shake up its flagship chip strategy by splitting the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite 3 into two variants fabbed using TSMC’s 2 nm process.