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Intel questions open source generosity
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Exec says Intel shouldn’t be carrying freeloading rivals 

Troubled Chipzilla’s long-standing love affair with open sauce might be heading for rocky times after one of its top brass suggested it’s time to stop being everyone’s free R&D department.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka lands
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Wayland-only desktop and a Rusty twist

Canonical has unleashed Ubuntu 25.10, cheerily codenamed Questing Quokka, with a fresh Linux 6.17 kernel, a shiny GNOME 49 desktop, and a bag full of tinkering changes sure to delight or infuriate long-time users.

China tightens the screws on chip imports
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Beijing serious about cutting Nvidia out of its tech diet

China has gone full throttle in enforcing tighter controls on semiconductor imports, as the Middle Kingdom pushes to purge its tech sector of American hardware, particularly from Nvidia.

OpenAI cheers for TSMC
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09 October 2025

OpenAI cheers for TSMC


OpenAI boss warns

OpenAI, CEO, Sam Altman, has poured cold water on swapping to Intel’s foundry, saying he’d rather the Taiwan giant simply built more.

Nvidia boss surprised about AMD handing OpenAI 10 per cent
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“Clever” but the deal raises funding questions

Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, said he is surprised Advanced Micro Devices would offer OpenAI warrants worth about 10 per cent of itself.