
Intel CEO eyes ditching 18A to woo Apple and Nvidia
Chen Liwu may dump billions into the bin
Intel’s new chief executive Chen Liwu, is ready to scrap its heavily hyped 18A process in a desperate attempt to snare big-name customers like the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Nvidia.

Apple may finally launch a "cheap" MacBook for the riff-raff
New A18-powered laptop could undercut the $999 Air
The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple is toying with the radical idea of building a laptop that doesn’t require you to sell a kidney or sell your children for medical experiments first.

Germany wants Apple and Google to pull Chinese AI app
Privacy watchdogs fume over DeepSeek’s data funnelling to Beijing
Germany’s data protection commissioner is sharpening the knives for DeepSeek, demanding that the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Google boot the Chinese AI outfit from their German app stores.

Apple's CarPlay Ultra drives carmakers to hit the brakes
Luxury brands snub Apple’s dashboard land grab
The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple’s latest attempt to colonise car dashboards with its CarPlay Ultra system has hit a wall, as several high-end carmakers politely told it to sod off.

Apple scrambles to avoid fresh EU smackdown
Last-ditch talks aim to dodge hefty Digital Markets Act fines
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is frantically negotiating with Brussels to dodge another regulatory slap as its deadline to comply with the Digital Markets Act runs out on 26 June.

BBC sues Perplexity for content theft as Apple considers buying the AI outfit
Desperate to sort out its AI mess
Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple is reportedly poking around AI startup Perplexity because it’s desperate to bolt someone else’s brains onto its failing AI plans.

Apple kills off FireWire in macOS Tahoe beta
Legacy gear dumped as Job's Mob ignores its own past
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has axed support for FireWire 400 and 800 in the first macOS Tahoe developer beta, leaving old iPods and legacy drives to rot in drawers.

Apple warned its AI will fail
Wedbush analyst says Apple Intelligence is all gloss, no guts
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been warned that its Apple Intelligence is doomed and not close to matching what its rivals are doing.

Apple’s AI paper gets push-back from other boffins
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.

Apple defends its headless chicken AI strategy
Job’s Mob reckons building Siri properly takes decades
After months of mocking silence about Siri’s “smarts” Apple executives have surfaced to defend their wobbly AI rollout and somehow made it sound like all part of the plan.