Builder.ai’s ‘chief wizard’ conjured $175mn illusion
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Company vanishes in a puff of smoke

Sachin Dev Duggal [pictured] called himself the “chief wizard” of Builder.ai but now his spells have failed and the once-hyped unicorn has gone poof.

Foxconn builds $1.5bn plant in India 
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Apple's iPhone supply chain shifts further from China to Chennai

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is moving more of its iPhone supply chain into India, with its long-time partner Foxconn dropping $1.5 billion on a new display module plant near Chennai. 

MSI wants to stop motherboards from stabbing you
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PinSafe Design ditches PCB spikes for smooth hands and fewer shorts

MSI has finally admitted what every PC builder already knows: motherboards are tiny metal sadists. At Computex 2025, the company revealed its new PinSafe Design, aimed at ending the age-old bloodsport of assembling a rig with your bare hands.

SK hynix stacks 321-layer NAND for AI boost
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Thinner, faster UFS 4.1 lands in 2026

SK hynix is doubling down on its love affair with stacking things high by stuffing 321 layers into its latest NAND chips, making its new UFS 4.1 modules thinner, slightly more efficient, and apparently clever enough to know what you’re doing before you do.

Asus slaps new GPUs into old laptops and calls it a day
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Computex brings keyboard vents, ancient chips and a lonely dock

Asus turned up to Computex with a pile of gaming laptops barely changed from last year, now dressed up with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 and not much else to show for it.