Lenovo shows off bizarre rotatable laptop and smart stand
Published in PC Hardware


Concept kit appears at Innovation World 2025

Lenovo has wheeled out some truly oddball kit, including a laptop with a spinning screen and a smart stand that stalks its user.

Intel digs up Comet Lake corpse and calls it Core i5-110
Published in PC Hardware


Chipzilla wants $200 for reheated 14nm leftovers

Troubled Chipzilla has decided that if it cannot impress punters with bleeding-edge innovation, it might as well re-sell the same old tat with a shinier sticker. It has released the Core i5-110, a Comet Lake processor that first saw daylight in 2020 and is inexplicably back from the dead.

SK hynix puts HBM4 into full production
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 12 September 2025 11:36

SK hynix puts HBM4 into full production


Chipmaker claims "World’s fastest AI memory" ready for mass rollout

SK hynix says it has wrapped up development of its HBM4 memory and is ready to churn it out for the AI bubble boom.

Albania hires AI minister to keep crooks at bay
Published in AI


Humanity has failed

Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama has appointed a new Cabinet member who cannot be bribed, threatened or buttered up because she is an AI bot.

US tops spyware investors list
Published in News
Friday, 12 September 2025 10:07

US tops spyware investors list


US bankrolls tech accused of enabling rights abuses

The United States has overtaken everyone else as the biggest backer of the commercial spyware racket, according to a fresh report from the Atlantic Council.

Microsoft ducks EU fine with Teams carve-out
Published in News
Friday, 12 September 2025 09:57

Microsoft ducks EU fine with Teams carve-out


Brussels swallows concessions after years of grumbling

Microsoft has dodged a hefty EU fine by coughing up concessions on how it bundles its software, ending a four-year antitrust row.

Microsoft and OpenAI patch things up for profit push
Published in AI


Tentative deal clears a path for OpenAI’s restructuring

Software King of the World, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have agreed to extend their partnership in a move that could smooth the startup’s shift to a for-profit structure.

Oracle trying to be the new Nvidia
Published in News
Friday, 12 September 2025 09:30

Oracle trying to be the new Nvidia


Ellison bets the farm on AI 

Oracle  stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with a forecast that makes it look more like Nvidia than the dull database flogger it has been for decades.

US government blames videogames for gun violence again
Published in Gaming


Kennedy thinks pixels are deadlier than guns

The US government is once again pointing the finger at videogames for America’s gun violence epidemic, because obviously the problem cannot possibly be the guns.

AMD promises MI450 will be no-excuses GPU
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 11 September 2025 11:47

AMD promises MI450 will be no-excuses GPU


Chipmaker claims it will outgun Nvidia’s next big thing

AMD has been floundering in gaming graphics, but the outfit is talking big about its next-gen AI GPU, the MI450, which it swears will deliver “leadership performance across the board.”