Show us your massive cores and huge pendulous caches  

Tom’s Hardware has found an annotated die shot of what is claimed to be Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processor on the Chinese Baidu platform.

Cut off supply chain

For some reason, Intel gets its supply of ultra-pure quartz from one North Carolina town which is connected to the outside world by a single road.

App store shinanigans

Epic Games is now suing Google again, but it also named Samsung a defendant in the lawsuit. This time, its sights are trained on Samsung’s Auto Blocker feature.

What? You expected us to pay for this?

The fruity cargo cult Apple has walked away from a funding round for OpenAI that is expected to raise approximately $6.5 billion.

Give me Steam

The Arch Linux team has announced a partnership with Valve to support critical infrastructure projects, including a build service and secure signing enclave for the Arch Linux distribution.

Chipzilla can't get a break 

Chipzilla’s problems with its 13th and 14th-gen desktop processors are expected to go away with a new BIOS patch – the only problem is that it has bought a new instability update that seems to be dropping more speed than a Birmingham nightclub owner.

Perfectly safe, nothing to see here, move on please

Software King of the World Microsoft is assuring world+dog that the latest version of its non-removable spyware is way more secure than the version that keeps a record of everything you do on your computer in an easily stolen plain text file.

Long live audio and video fakes

The amount of deepfake fraud is dropping but it is being replaced by video and audio AI fraud.

Churn out chips of its very own

Oracle is close to taking control of Ampere Computing which could mean that it ends up churning out chips for its own datacentres without needing to lean on AMD or Nvidia.

Introduced more bugs

A recent Uplevel report found that AI was not the helpful tool developers and their bosses thought it might be.