General Motors explains why it ditched Apple Carplay
Safety reasons -- Apple users are idiots
General Motors has cited safety as the reason it decided to phase out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and move to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google.
Xiaomi 14 Pro may never be seen outside China
Just the Xiaomi 14
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Xiaomi is only going to release the Xiaomi 14 in the international markets and not the Pro flavour.
Voyager 1 starts talking rubbish
Can’t be fixed for a while
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.
General Motors culls nine executives in robotaxi safety investigation
Chief Operating Officer among them
General Motors' Cruise robotaxi unit dismissed nine executives amid an ongoing safety investigation, which the company confirmed included Chief Operating Officer Gil West.
Boffins turn human brains into computers
Created their own AI
In what is typical for mad scientists allowed to hang around human brain cells for too long, a team of boffins has hooked some up to an electronic chip and enabled them to carry out some basic computing.
Broadcom kills off perpetual licenses
“Encouraging” customers to subscriptions
Broadcom appears to be doing its best to make like hell for VMware customers by killing off VMware's on-premises perpetual licenses.
Ukraine’s mobile network hit by biggest hack yet
Russians cut mobile and internet services
Ukraine's biggest mobile network was hit by "what appeared to be the largest cyber attack of the war with Russia so far," severing mobile and internet services for millions of people and knocking out the air raid alert system in parts of Kyiv.
Cloud engineer jailed for wiping code repositories
Retaliation for p*rn firing
Cloud engineer Miklos Daniel Brody has been jailed for two years and ordered to pay $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer.
Microsoft wants to become a nuclear power
Blue screen of death could take out a state
Software King of the World, Microsoft, wants to build its own nuclear power stations to power its artificial intelligence operations.
US government prepared to make some concessions to Nvidia
Better than playing wack-a-mole
The US government says it is prepared to make some concessions to Nvidia over the sale of AI accelerates to China, rather than having to play a game of wack-a-mole with the chipmaker.