Apple about to make iPhone more expensive
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 11 August 2025 10:10

Apple about to make iPhone more expensive


May dangle bigger storage to keep punters sweet

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is about to jack up the price of its already overpriced shiny toys later this year.

UK Courts saw evidence vanish while HMCTS bosses kept quiet
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Leaked report says IT flaw was ignored

The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up after a leaked report revealed HM Courts & Tribunals Service sat on an IT bug that made evidence vanish, be overwritten or appear missing for years.

TSMC staff accused of stealing 2nm chip secrets
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Three current and former employees detained 

Taiwanese prosecutors have detained three current and former staff of chip giant TSMC on suspicion of stealing core trade secrets, including details of its 2-nanometre manufacturing technology.

Intel chief hits back at Trump “misinformation”
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I am not highly conflicted

Troubled Chipzilla’s chief executive Lip-Bu Tan [pictured] has fired back at Donald Trump after the US president accused him of being “highly conflicted” and demanded he resign.

Nvidia and AMD hand Trump 15 per cent of China chip revenues
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Protection money

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the Trump administration 15 per cent of revenues from their China chip sales in return for export licences.

Raja Koduri resurrects GPU dreams with startup gamble
Published in Graphics


Oxmiq aims to gut the GPU ecosystem and build it back from scratch

Intel's former GPU supreme Dalek, Raja Koduri has popped up at a new startup, Oxmiq Labs, where he plans to reinvent the entire AI GPU market with a so-called “software first” plan that seems hell-bent on killing off CUDA’s stranglehold.

Qualcomm wants Wi-Fi 8 to work when everything goes wrong
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No more dropped packets, roaming flops, and latency hell

Qualcomm is leading a new crusade to make Wi-Fi suck less in the real world.

AMD and Microsoft plan one chip to rule them all
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In the darkness bind them

AMD is getting chummy with Microsoft again and is cooking up a custom chip that will run the next-gen Xbox console, and PCs and handhelds. 

US strong-arms TSMC to save Intel
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Friday, 08 August 2025 11:01

US strong-arms TSMC to save Intel


Trump demands 49 per cent stake in Intel as price for tariff relief

The Trump administration is trying to force Taiwanese chip giant TSMC to buy nearly half of Troubled Chipzilla to secure a break on trade tariffs.

Sony still pretending Xperia matters
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Friday, 08 August 2025 10:54

Sony still pretending Xperia matters


Execs call dying phone division "very important" despite shrinking market presence

Sony seems to be clinging to the fantasy that its Xperia phone business is vital to its future, despite barely shifting units and the outfit withdrawing from most major markets.