Outift which shamed Apple does the same to Amazon
Published in Cloud


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
Published in PC Hardware


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
Published in AI


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
Published in PC Hardware


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
Published in Mobiles


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
Published in Mobiles


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
Published in News


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
Published in AI


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
Published in News


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
Published in News


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.