AMD 9800X3D chips under fire
Flaming expensive
More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards.
Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 set to muscle in without Oryon
A premium chip minus the flagship price tag
Qualcomm appears ready to give its Snapdragon 8 series a fresh kick with the upcoming Gen 4 version, designed for consumers who want flagship performance without paying flagship prices.
AMD cosies up to Rapt AI to claw into Nvidia’s turf
Improving inferencing performance and GPU chaos with workload wizardry
Underdog chipmaker AMD is teaming up with Rapt AI in a strategic move to boost performance on its Instinct GPU lineup and tackle the AI infrastructure headaches that have plagued would-be innovators.
Vole gives BSOD a makeover
Paint it black
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has plans to make the infamous Blue Screen of Death crash message in Windows 11 less blue and a bit more bleak.
Watchdog says App Tracking Transparency wasn’t as innocent as it looked
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s much-hyped App Tracking Transparency feature has earned it a €150 million slap on the wrist from France’s antitrust bloodhounds, who say it used privacy as a smokescreen to stiff the competition.