UK’s AI ‘hit squad’ can’t hire enough staff
Government unit underspends half its budget chasing scarce talent
A UK government artificial intelligence unit that was supposed to save £45 billion across the civil service managed to burn through less than half its budget last year.
Lenovo shows off bizarre rotatable laptop and smart stand
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
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
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
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.