Nvidia replaces Chipzilla in Dow Jones Industrial Average
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.
US is making consumers pay for corporate data centre plans
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.
Chinese spooks hacking US mobile users in real time
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.
Python and Rust rising
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.
Customers fleeing VMware
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.
OpenAI launches real-time search feature
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.
Tech leaders switching off security
Most reuse their passwords
New research has shown that over a third of terminally daft IT managers have disabled security measures on their systems, while a shocking 70 per cent admitted to the cardinal sin of reusing passwords.
Apple shrugs off €10 Billion EU tax charge
Still makes a profit who cares?
Legions of Apple fanboys who insist on buying its products propped up the fruity cargo cult despite its one-time €10.2 billion tax charge linked to a long-standing European tax ruling
Intel surprises Wall Street
It appears that a turnaround is happening
Chipzilla appears to have surprised Wall Street's cocaine nose jobs by returning with much better-than-expected results.
Former Google Chief Eric Schmidt drones on about drones
US Army should ditch tanks in favour of AI-powered Drones
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has called for a radical shift in US military strategy. He urges the Army to scrap its “useless” tanks in favour of AI-powered drones.