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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Qualcomm’s former flagship chip trickles down to cheaper phones

According to Kuai Technology, from October the big Android players will start rolling out phones with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 at the top end, while the original Snapdragon 8 Elite will slide down into cheaper sub-flagships.

Job’s Mob's foldable looks like Samsung clone

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is finally edging toward the foldable market, with its first iPhone Fold pencilled in for 2026 but behind the scenes, engineers are far from thrilled.

Quantum light sources and electronics finally share the same silicon 

A team of boffins from Boston University, UC Berkeley and Northwestern University have emerged from their smoke filled labs with the world’s first chip that combines quantum light sources and control electronics on a single slab of silicon.

Hackers breach government agencies, universities and energy firms while waiting for a fix

A CrowdStrike senior vice-president of cybersecurity has warned that anyone running a hosted SharePoint server is staring down the barrel of a major security nightmare.