Outift which shamed Apple does the same to Amazon
Published in Cloud


37Signals gets off its cloud

The outfit, which publicly shames big-name vendors when it stops being their customers, has focused on Amazon’s cloud operations.

Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents in November
Published in AI


Virtual workers 

Software King of the World, Microsoft is going to allow its punters to build autonomous AI agents and create virtual workers.

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 10:03

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite


Claims it will clean rivals' clocks

Qualcomm has introduced its latest mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claims will set a new standard in smartphone performance.

Tame Apple Press admits that iPhone is dull
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 09:49

Tame Apple Press admits that iPhone is dull


iPhone loses its shine

After years of talking up Apple’s iPhone, the Tame Apple Press is having to admit that the iPhone 16 is a dull product which needed to be a lot better.

Kaspersky still has a cult following in the US
Published in News


Some users will not pull the plug

Despite US scare stories and a government ban, a group of dedicated Kaspersky software followers is refusing to uninstall the software.

OpenAI has lost ground to rivals
Published in AI
Monday, 21 October 2024 11:49

OpenAI has lost ground to rivals


Still the leader for now

OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,

Spectre issues were never completely fixed
Published in News
Monday, 21 October 2024 11:26

Spectre issues were never completely fixed


Patches falling short

Six years after disclosing the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws, boffins still voice concerns about incomplete fixes.

Vole finds ways to trap phishers
Published in News
Monday, 21 October 2024 11:09

Vole finds ways to trap phishers


Automatically waste their time

The software king of the world, Microsoft has been using its Azure cloud platform "to hunt phishers at scale" and waste their time.

Expensive AMD server chip going cheap in eBay
Published in PC Hardware


70.38 per cent off the official price

TechRadar has found shedloads of AMD’s EPYC “Bergamo” 9754 server-grade processor from the EPYC 9004 series going dirt cheap on eBay.

Intel Core Ultra 200H "Arrow Lake" mobile CPUs leaked
Published in News


Additional LPE cores for all SKUs

An Intel leak has tipped up showing a complete spec sheet of Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200H processors.