Tech tycoon’s estate faces ruin after High Court HPE ruling
Mike Lynch’s yacht tragedy followed by financial shipwreck
The estate of late tech mogul Mike Lynch is staring down bankruptcy after London’s High Court ruled it owes Hewlett Packard Enterprise hundreds of millions.
AMD’s RDNA 5 “UDNA” takes on the high-end again
Navi 5X aims to undo the damage RDNA 4 did to AMD’s reputation
It looks like AMD has remembered it used to compete in the high-end GPU space and will reintroduce a proper halo-tier card after RDNA 4 meekly surrendered the enthusiast market to Nvidia.
Lenovo Legion Go 2 prototypes leak in China
Pre-production units with older Ryzen Z2 chips surface on grey markets
Lenovo’s upcoming Legion Go 2 gaming handheld is already leaking into the wild, with Chinese resellers offering pre-launch prototypes despite no official release.
Nvidia’s first Windows on Arm chip rumoured to slip to 2026
N1X SoC delayed thanks to Microsoft, weak demand, and design tweaks
Nvidia’s big leap into Windows on Arm is already hitting speed bumps.
Sixunited gives AMD’s Strix Halo ‘Ryzen AI MAX’ to DIY PC builders
Thin Mini-ITX MoDT board crams in a laptop-class monster APU
Chinese PC maker Sixunited has just released a new toy for tinkerers. It is a Thin Mini-ITX motherboard packed with AMD’s Strix Halo “Ryzen AI MAX” APU, a chip previously only found in laptops and mini PCs.
Stargate turning into a tire fire
Trump-backed $500 billion AI moonshot already stalling
The $500 billion Stargate project, trumpeted at the White House as America’s grand AI leap forward, is looking more like a tire fire than the start of a golden age.
Microsoft can’t keep EU data out of US paws
Cloud Act clashes with Europe’s fantasy of digital sovereignty
Software King of the World, Microsoft has admitted it cannot keep French citizen data safe from the reach of US authorities, even when it is locked up in EU data centres.
UK businesses plunge into AI without a safety net
Firms embrace AI, but governance is something that happens to other people
While 93 per cent of UK organisations dabble with AI, but only a pitiful seven per cent have proper governance frameworks in place.
Intel kills off Clear Linux in cost-cutting purge
Performance-tuned distro joins Deep Link in the corporate graveyard
Intel has axed Clear Linux, its high-performance Linux distro that spent the last decade squeezing every drop of speed out of x86-64 chips.
Astronomer CEO resigns after Coldplay scandal
Dataops firm can't "fix you" as affair with HR chief becomes internet meme
A night out watching Apple's favourite band Coldplay has cost Astronomer’s now ex-CEO Andy Byron his job and possibly his reputation. Byron resigned in disgrace after being caught up in a scandal involving the company’s Chief People Officer, Kristin Cabot.