Vole will keep working on militarised versions

Software King of the World,  Microsoft has given up on the consumer and business version of its VR headset and is going to concentrate on military versions instead.

French company might have to surrender

French company Ubisoft might surrender to pressure from its investors to find a buyer.

Making life harder for all its customers

AT&T claimed Broadcom offered to jack up its prices by 1,050 per cent and maybe influencing other vendors to make a migration harder.

Conversational voice interfaces on their way

OpenAI has given developers access to its speech-to-speech engine -- the magic behind ChatGPT's advanced voice mode.

Sweeney off his todd sends flying sod

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney delivered a scathing rebuke of monopolistic platform owners.

Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing

 While there are nine million bicycles in Beijing the US corners the world regarding data centres - and that's a fact.

Show us your massive cores and huge pendulous caches  

Tom’s Hardware has found an annotated die shot of what is claimed to be Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processor on the Chinese Baidu platform.

Cut off supply chain

For some reason, Intel gets its supply of ultra-pure quartz from one North Carolina town which is connected to the outside world by a single road.

App store shinanigans

Epic Games is now suing Google again, but it also named Samsung a defendant in the lawsuit. This time, its sights are trained on Samsung’s Auto Blocker feature.

What? You expected us to pay for this?

The fruity cargo cult Apple has walked away from a funding round for OpenAI that is expected to raise approximately $6.5 billion.