Will cross the picket lines

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers.

Delayed until 2027

Apple, the fruity cargo cult, has delayed the cheaper version of its disastrous, overpriced mixed-reality headset, the Vision Pro.

Users moan about Kindle Colorsoft

Amazon's first-ever colour e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft, has only just gone on sale, and early adopters are already expressing dissatisfaction.

Getting rid of memory sticks was a waste of time and money, may dump GPUs 

Intel has reversed one of the most significant changes to its laptop chips -- getting rid of memory sticks  and it may abandon its GPUS plans. 

AI Boom kicks off the old dinosaur 

In a significant reshuffle of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Nvidia is set to replace Intel, reflecting the boom in artificial intelligence (AI) and a significant shift in the semiconductor industry.

It is the American way

The US has a novel way of funding big IT company data centres and AI plans: it hikes ordinary people's power bills.

Reds under the beds

Millions of US mobile users could be vulnerable to Chinese government spooks who are apparently desperate to know when they are picking up their snowflakes from school and where they order their pizza.

Github’s State of the Octoverse claims

GitHub’s annual "State of the Octoverse" report has found that systems programming languages Python and Rust are rising.

Not impressed with price hikes and subscription shifts

Since Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware last year, many customers have voiced dissatisfaction with Broadcom’s changes to VMware’s offerings, and now it appears that they are spurring the company as if it were a rabid dog.  

Challenges Google and Microsoft

OpenAI launched a real-time search function within ChatGPT, marking its first significant foray into a market long dominated by Google.