Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 cards are nearly here
Newegg has them listed
Nvidia's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 cards will be available on 30 January at 6 am.
iPhone has a new broken alarm feature
Claims to be on it
Members of the Apple fruity cargo cult are incandescent with rage after the alarms on their shiny toys stop working. This means that many of them are sleeping and missing work.
Microsoft was in the middle of the Gaza Conflict.
Flogged cloud and AI to the IDF
A leaked document from Israel’s Defense Ministry and files acquired from Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary show that the software king of the world has been deeply involved in the Gaza conflict.
Nvidia starts killing off Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
GeForce driver support future uncertain
Tom’s Hardware has noticed that Nvidia's release notes for CUDA 12.8 show Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs are set to transition to the legacy driver branch and will self-identify as “dead as a dodo.”
Boffins save 30 per cent on data centre power bills
Made some minor changes to Linux code
A team of boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a string of Linux code that they think can save 30 per cent on a data centre's power bill.
Tech oligarchs consider buying TikTok
Bytedance still involved
A new plan which would keep TikTok available in the US, but under the control of a group of companies including Oracle and Microsoft is being negotiated by the White House.
Tech billionaire shares his son’s very personal data online
Stand tall son
Tech billionaire Bryan Johnson (right), who is obsessed with trying to live forever via an elaborate anti-ageing regimen, has shared his teenage son’s very personal data online.
Musk in a bind over Tesla’s clean energy products
Making a killing in an area which is unpopular with the White House
Swasticar maker Elon [look at me] Musk is in a bit of a bind as new numbers show that his firms are making a fortune out of clean energy and now can store it.
IDC predicts huge cloud shift
More than half of APAC businesses to modernise cloud by 2027
Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers, divided by their collective shoe size, and concluded that more than 50 per cent of Asia/Pacific businesses will modernise their cloud architectures by 2027.
Apple admits its CarPlay 2 is “late”
Has deleted release dates from the CarPlay page
Fruity cargo cult Apple is having trouble getting products out of its flying saucer—this time, its CarPlay "product has been placed on the never-never list.