
Outift which shamed Apple does the same to Amazon
37Signals gets off its cloud
The outfit, which publicly shames big-name vendors when it stops being their customers, has focused on Amazon’s cloud operations.

Biostar announces new Z890A-SILVER motherboard
For the latest Intel Core Ultra series-2 CPUs
Biostar has announced its newest Z890A-SILVER motherboard, the latest addition to the Z890 lineup which supports Intel's Core Ultra series-2 CPUs.

Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents in November
Virtual workers
Software King of the World, Microsoft is going to allow its punters to build autonomous AI agents and create virtual workers.

AMD to bring two new socket AM4 CPUs
Ryzen 5 5600XT and 5600T CPUs
AMD's aging AM4 platform is set to receive a couple of new updates, including the Ryzen 5 5600XT and Ryzen 5 5600T CPUs.

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite
Claims it will clean rivals' clocks
Qualcomm has introduced its latest mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claims will set a new standard in smartphone performance.

Tame Apple Press admits that iPhone is dull
iPhone loses its shine
After years of talking up Apple’s iPhone, the Tame Apple Press is having to admit that the iPhone 16 is a dull product which needed to be a lot better.

Kaspersky still has a cult following in the US
Some users will not pull the plug
Despite US scare stories and a government ban, a group of dedicated Kaspersky software followers is refusing to uninstall the software.

OpenAI has lost ground to rivals
Still the leader for now
OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,

Spectre issues were never completely fixed
Patches falling short
Six years after disclosing the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws, boffins still voice concerns about incomplete fixes.

Vole finds ways to trap phishers
Automatically waste their time
The software king of the world, Microsoft has been using its Azure cloud platform "to hunt phishers at scale" and waste their time.