Deepseek caught serving dodgy code to China's ‘enemies’
Falun Gong requests get broken software while everyone else gets the good stuff
A new report claims China’s flagship AI outfit DeepSeek is sabotaging users if they happen to identify with groups Beijing doesn’t like.
EU’s Digital Markets Act flawed claims new report
It will never stand up in court
A new study has torn into the EU’s Digital Markets Act, claiming its clunky procedures and lack of transparency are making the law nearly impossible to enforce.
TSMC smashes another record after interest rate cut
Chipmaker drags Taiwan market to fresh high
Taiwan’s TSMC has surged again, with its US ADR rising 0.3 per cent on Wednesday to close at $262.79, marking four straight days of record highs.
AMD shoves Zen 5 into the edge
EPYC 4005 rolled out
AMD has rolled out its Zen 5-based EPYC Embedded 4005 CPUs, claiming the chips will power everything from firewalls to edge servers without breaking the bank.
AMD waves ROCm 7 about to take on Nvidia’s CUDA cult
Hopes devs finally look at its software stack
AMD has shoved ROCm 7 onto GitHub, fuelling speculation that this might be the release to finally lead developers out of Nvidia’s CUDA walled garden and into a promised land.
Hard drives and SSDs face shortages
Everyone hoarding petabytes of data
AI is already hoovering up every GPU in sight, and now it’s coming for your storage.
Taliban pulls the plug on Wi-Fi to save morals
Netflix and cat videos are a threat to civilisation
The Taliban has decided that the real enemy of Afghanistan isn’t poverty, famine, or collapsing infrastructure but Wi-Fi.
Microsoft forks out $30 billion on UK
Trump’s visit coincides with Nvidia, Google and others throwing cash at Britain
Software King of the World, Microsoft has promised to dump $30 billion (€28 billion) into the UK by 2028 as it tries to beef up its artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Beijing waves stick at Nvidia while dangling TikTok carrot
China reminds Trump it can still make life awkward for US tech
Nvidia finds itself in the firing line as Beijing signals it can squeeze US tech while negotiating a TikTok deal.
SMIC trials first advanced DUV tool made in Shanghai
Homebrew lithography
China’s top chipmaker is having a crack at running its factories on homegrown lithography gear, trying to loosen the chokehold western rivals have on AI processors.