News - subcat

ASUS RTX 5070 dips below MSRP
Published in Graphics
Friday, 19 September 2025 11:48

ASUS RTX 5070 dips below MSRP


Nvidia price slide continues

While Nvidia's RTX 50 series finally has enough cards in the wild, prices are dipping with some falling below their original MSRP.

Apple's iPhone Air battery life is pants
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 19 September 2025 11:15

Apple's iPhone Air battery life is pants


Thinner iPhone runs out of puff

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple made a lot of noise about longer battery life in its latest iPhone 17 lineup, but it would appear that the Air is not that good.

Samsung fridges join the enshitification parade
Published in IoT


Company sneaks ads onto Family Hub models 

Samsung has decided the best way to “strengthen the value” of owning one of its pricey Family Hub smart fridges is to shove adverts in user's face.

AI doctors hate women and minorities
Published in AI
Friday, 19 September 2025 10:08

AI doctors hate women and minorities


Bias baked into medical models 

Artificial intelligence tools touted as the saviours of overstretched hospitals could end up doing the opposite for women and ethnic minorities, according to new research.

Apple hogs TSMC's 2nm chips
Published in News
Friday, 19 September 2025 09:58

Apple hogs TSMC's 2nm chips


Grabs more than half of 2026 output, leaving rivals in the dust

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has reportedly signed up for more than half of TSMC’s 2nm production capacity in 2026, effectively elbowing rivals out of the queue for the world’s most advanced silicon.

Intel needs a chainsaw, not a plaster
Published in News
Friday, 19 September 2025 09:40

Intel needs a chainsaw, not a plaster


Nvidia’s cash will not fix Intel’s mess without a split

Troubled Chipzilla scored a temporary win when Nvidia lobbed it a $5 billion bone, but if Intel thinks that is enough to crawl back into relevance, it is dreaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Anthropic at odds with Trump's AI Tsar
Published in AI
Friday, 19 September 2025 09:16

Anthropic at odds with Trump's AI Tsar


Regulation over the free market

While other tech titans toasted President Donald Trump at a White House cheese and nibbles, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei [pictured] stayed in California to fight what he sees as an existential drift.

AMD bulks up business desktops with new Ryzen Pro chips
Published in PC Hardware


Zen 5 and Zen 4 parts target office drones with AI engines and lower power draw

AMD has expanded its commercial desktop range with new Ryzen Pro 9000 and Ryzen Pro 7000 processors, pitching them at businesses that want performance, efficiency and enterprise features without headaches.

Dell slaps Intel's Gaudi 3 into Poweredge servers
Published in News
Thursday, 18 September 2025 10:19

Dell slaps Intel's Gaudi 3 into Poweredge servers


Mainstream firms finally offer Intel’s sluggish AI chips

The Grey Box Shifter, Dell has decided to give Troubled Chipzilla a leg up in AI by slotting the much-delayed Gaudi 3 accelerators into its PowerEdge XE7740 servers.

Huawei boasts of 192-core Kungpeng chips by 2026
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 18 September 2025 10:06

Huawei boasts of 192-core Kungpeng chips by 2026


192-core Kungpeng chips by 2026 and 256+ cores by 2028

Huawei used its Connect 2025 shindig in China to outline a roadmap for its Kungpeng CPUs and Ascend accelerators, promising to push domestic high-performance computing and AI hardware into gargantuan territory.