Microsoft dusts off old tricks to scare users off Chrome
Edge gets the hard sell in new browser wars
Software King of the World, Microsoft, is once again trying to stop users from downloading Google Chrome, and nobody who has watched this industry for five minutes will be shocked.
Oracle’s AI binge rattles markets as Blue Owl flies off
Debt fears grow while Wall Street whispers about a popping bubble
Blue Owl Capital has walked away from talks to bankroll a $10 billion data centre for Oracle in Saline Township, Michigan, a flagship project meant to feed OpenAI.
Microsoft finally bins RC4 after decades of pain
Ancient cypher meets its end after years of hacks and warnings
Software King of the World, Microsoft, is pulling the plug on RC4, an obsolete and leaky encryption cypher it has propped up by default for 26 years despite a trail of break-ins and public embarrassment.
LG stuffs Copilot onto smart TVs
Forced webOS update leaves users stuck with Microsoft AI
LG has shoved Microsoft Copilot onto its smart TVs, leaving baffled owners staring at an app they never asked for and cannot remove.
Coreweave’s AI dream springs a leak
Rain, debt and mixed messages rattle the boom.
CoreWeave has managed to torch about $33 billion in market value in six weeks, which is quite a trick even by AI hype standards.
Memory shortages push laptops back to eight gigabytes
DRAM drought sends prices north and specs south
Laptop makers are running out of memory and patience as DRAM shortages start to bite hard across the supply chain.
Broadcom rides AI boom, but the market still flinches
Analysts moan about the margins as shares wobble
Broadcom delivered another slab of AI-fuelled growth and still managed to spook the market in after-hours trading.
Secretary of state picks a fight with a serif
Microsoft's default Calibri is too "woke"
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tightened his grip on the culture war by ordering diplomats to ditch Calibri typefaces for Times New Roman, apparently unaware that the venerable serif has spent decades carrying some of the most “woke” books ever printed.
Nvidia’s grip on AI chips starts to loosen
A growing pack of rivals eyes the crown
One company has sat on the AI chip throne for a decade, but the ground beneath Nvidia is starting to shift.
IBM boss says hyperscalers are dreaming
Arvind Krishna tears into Big Tech’s data centre maths
IBM lead suit Arvind Krishna has warned that hyperscalers like Google and Amazon are shovelling cash into data centres at a rate that will never turn a profit.