Malaysia’s daft plan to block DNS abandoned
Published in Network


Only took a day

Malaysia's telecom regulator has abandoned a daft plan to block overseas DNS services a day after announcing it.

Sony wants to kill-off the disk drive
Published in Gaming


Costs too much as an add on

Sony has revealed its $699.99 PlayStation 5 Pro and has shown its distain for physical media by demanding you front up with an extra $79.99 if you want to use a disk drive.

Two former Samsung executives arrested
Published in News


Helped China build a memory chip plant

Inspector knacker of the South Korean yard has fingered the collar of two former Samsung executives for allegedly leaking secrets worth $3.2 billion to China.

Oracle goes nuclear
Published in News
11 September 2024

Oracle goes nuclear


Need to keep track of AI demand

Oracle's Larry Ellison says his outfit is designing a data center that will be powered by three small nuclear reactors capable of providing more than a gigawatt of electricity.

Cerebras could do harm to Nvidia
Published in AI


Could prevent it leaving Hades

The AI chip outfit named after Hade’s dog could be about to give the big AI chip makers like Nvidia, AMD, and Intel a good kicking.

Huawei reveals competition for new iPhones
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Tame Apple press ironically complains it is expensive.

Huawei’s latest smartphone has already received more than three million pre-orders, before it launches today and rains on Apple’s parade.  

Aussie boffins create new way for photonic chip development
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Could make the leap to consumer products

Boffins from the Australian National University, alongside their partners at Northwestern Polytechnical University have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a new engineering marvel for on-chip light sources, which could pave the way for photonic chips to become ubiquitous in consumer electronics.

Irish guy beats Musk and wins $600,000
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Teaches him a lesson on employment law

An Irish man took Elon [look at me] Musk to court over his employment antics and won.

RTX's GPS satellites face more delays
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Space Force sees further delays

A month before its much-anticipated delivery, after years of delays and ballooning costs, RTX's $7.6 billion ground network for GPS satellites remains a quagmire of issues that could further delay its acceptance by the US Space Force.

Google anti-trust case opens
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DoJ claims Google uses ad tech like a sledgehammer

The anti-trust case against Google has started in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia with the DoJ claiming that the search engine outfit has been wielding its ad tech like a sledgehammer, violating antitrust laws in the process.