Europe’s tech industry wants radical action
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Europe first rather than propping up US big tech

Europe’s tech boffins have penned a desperate plea to the EU, demanding “radical action” to cut the bloc’s reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure before the whole thing collapses into a tech vassal state of the Yanks or the Chinese.

Huawei about to lose Windows licence
Published in News
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 09:43

Huawei about to lose Windows licence


It might have to put Linux on the desktop

Huawei’s already rocky relationship with the US just hit another pothole, as Microsoft's supply license for the company is set to expire this month, leaving Huawei’s Windows-based PCs in limbo.

Musk’s Starlink in nepotism row
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Tuesday, 18 March 2025 09:10

Musk’s Starlink in nepotism row


Exiting commerce official whistleblows

A departing Commerce Department official dropped a scathing farewell email accusing Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s administration of lining Elon [Roman salute] Musk’s already bulging pockets with taxpayer cash.

Motherboard soap opera ends in tragedy
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 09:08

Motherboard soap opera ends in tragedy


BIOS update saga ends

The poor sod who had the PC-building world biting their nails over a BIOS update saga that lasted longer than many marriages has finally admitted defeat.

Trump using TSMC as a protection fee
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Monday, 17 March 2025 11:16

Trump using TSMC as a protection fee


Taiwan former president furious

Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou has accused Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump of forcing TSMC into paying what amounts to a “protection fee” by moving more of its operations to the US.

MSI snubs AMD’s RDNA 4 lineup
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 17 March 2025 10:45

MSI snubs AMD’s RDNA 4 lineup


Agreed to see other people

MSI has quietly ghosted AMD’s latest Radeon GPUs, skipping the entire RDNA 4 lineup and leaving the Radeon RX 9070 series without one of its usual partners.

Super Nintendo Entertainment System improves over time
Published in Gaming


Like a fine wine – if wine makes Mario jump higher

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) console is somehow improving as it ages.

Bolt Graphics brings RISC-V to the GPU market
Published in Graphics


Hail Zeus

Bolt Graphics, a startup out of Sunnyvale, California, has announced its Zeus GPU platform, promising to thrash Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads.

Meta’s book censorship efforts backfire
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Mr Zuckerburg met Barbra Streisand

Meta has proven that nothing sells a book faster than a censorship attempt.

Google’s AI solves 10-year-old superbug problem
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Researchers wondered if they had been wasting their lives

Google’s latest AI experiment has compressed a decade’s worth of painstaking microbiological research into a two-day thunk.