TSMC’s 2nm race heats up
Qualcomm and MediaTek join Apple at the front line
The semiconductor arms race has entered another round, with TSMC speeding ahead on its 2nm roadmap.
Gigabyte smashes DDR5 records
Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE
Gigabyte has grabbed the top three spots in the global DDR5 overclocking leaderboard, thanks to its Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard and a touch of frosty engineering.
Trump shuts door on Nvidia's Blackwell chips for China
US blocks AI exports once again
Nvidia's hopes of sliding back into China’s lucrative AI market have been crushed, as President Trump confirmed that the company’s new Blackwell chips will not be cleared for export.
Cloudflare rebuilds its internet engine in Rust
A 25 per cent performance bump
Interweb bouncer Cloudflare has spent the past year ripping out the guts of its global traffic system and replacing them with something Rusty.
Musk makes Wikipedia even worse
Elon’s latest cosmic ego trip is a complete disaster
Elon Musk's AI powered version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia is so bad it makes the online encyclopaedia powered by fake penis experts waving their imagined doctorates look good.
AI groups race to plug prompt injection bugs
Industry teams try to stop criminals tricking chatbots into spilling secrets
Big language AI models are under a sustained assault and the tech world is scrambling to patch the holes.
China freezes chip chemistry to slash defects by 99 per cent
Cryogenic trick gives Beijing’s fabs a leg-up
Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a way to stop chips from going pear-shaped during manufacture by literally freezing the process mid-flow.
Intel and BOE teach laptops to chill out
Troubled Chipzilla finds salvation in AI displays that know when to stop working so hard
Troubled Chipzilla has joined forces with Chinese display giant BOE to give laptop screens a much-needed sense of restraint. The pair claim their new AI-powered display tricks will stretch battery life while keeping images sharp.
Former Intel boss turns to holy hardware
Kicking Pat Gelsinger wants ‘faith-based AI’
Ex-Chipzilla chief Patrick [Kicking] Gelsinger now preaching digital salvation through chatbots and church tech.
Apple’s Family Sharing tool accused of enabling digital abuse
Fruity Cargo Cult’s design flaws let her ex use tech for child coercion
Apple is under fire for a feature meant to keep families connected but which, in reality, has handed control to digital abusers.