
MSI cooks up RTX50 ‘Extreme OC’ cards
Afterburner dev handed early samples with unlocked voltage toys
MSI looks set to revive its Lightning branding with new RTX 50 GPUs kitted out for lunatic overclockers, and the developer behind Afterburner already has his hands on the first samples.

AI Darwin awards launched for the dimmest deployments
From Taco Bell chaos to McDonald’s jobbot fiascos
It was only a matter of time before the Darwin Awards were extended to cover the tech world’s worst attempts to shoehorn AI into places it clearly doesn’t belong.

Anthropic’s Claude falls flat on its face
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.

TSMC hits record-breaking August revenue
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's Arc B770 “Battlemage” inches closer to launch
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.