Intel retires 20-year CPU ID as Nova Lake breaks cover
Ancient Family 6 gets binned
Intel is finally ditching its ancient Family 6 CPU designation after more than two decades of clinging to it like a legacy BIOS.
Nvidia's H20 chips hit red tape gridlock in US-China shuffle
Licensing logjam stalls AI GPU shipments despite lifted ban
Nvidia might have dodged a US ban on its H20 AI chips for China, but it’s entangled in a licensing quagmire so deep it’s putting the brakes on exports.
Hackers sneak Raspberry Pi into bank to fake out Linux systems
UNC2891’s ATM heist fails but exposes cyber-physical blind spot
A hacker outfit identified as UNC2891 tried pulling off a bank heist by slipping a 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi into a bank’s ATM network and using a tricked-out Linux rootkit to stay hidden.
Amazon works out a way to kill off Alexa
Why not shove in adverts?
Amazon has just come up with a wizard wheeze to kill off its Alexa product by making it unusable by stuffing each conversation with more adverts.
Tariff woes dent TSMC’s seasonal surge
Chip giant’s fourth quarter could fizzle despite AI buzz
Tariff tantrums from the US have started to rattle TSMC’s booming run, with signs that the Christmas consumer rush might be more of a limp than a sprint.
OpenAI snares $8.3bn as it angles for IPO
Investors line up for a slice
OpenAI has managed to wangle $8.3 billion from venture capitalists and private equity outfits desperate not to miss the AI hype train, as it eyes an eventual IPO.
Musk open to merging his AI outfit with Apple
Grok could plug a hole in Apple’s leaky AI strategy
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might end up jumping into bed with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence sideshow xAI, after whispers of a strategic tie-up started swirling around tech circles.
Intel has a bite at the lower-end
Power-efficient Arrow Lake chips arrive on the sly
Troubled Chipzilla has shoved a few more low-end Arrow Lake chips out the door, hoping no one would notice unless they were really paying attention.
ARM wants to build is own silicon
SoftBank-backed firm taking on AMD and Intel
ARM is apparently tired of flogging CPU blueprints and wants to play with the big boys by building its own chips. That means going head-to-head with Troubled Chipzilla and AMD in the high-stakes silicon game.
Tim Cook insists the iPhone is not dead
Its just resting
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple's supreme dalek Tim Cook has tried to calm jittery investors worried that AI might finally kill off the sacred iPhone cash cow.