US insists that it does not want to stop Chinese growth
We just want to make sure our companies rule the world
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the bizarre claim that all the sanctions his country had put on Chinese firms were not to stop that country from growing economically.
Apple fanboys start whinging as Vision Pro costs them
You can’t even off-load them on eBay
Apple fanboys are talking about how depressed the failure of the Vision Pro has made them feel.
Samsung’s foldable phone empire folds
Falling sales in China
Samsung’s foldable phone sales have tanked in the face of competition from Chinese rivals.
Apple given six months to sort out iPadOS
Must follow the same rules as everyone else
Fruity cargo cult Apple his being corralled by the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) to bring its iPadOS into line.
Tsar Putin purges Wackypedia
Replaces it with something more to his taste
Russian Tsar Vladamir Putin has expelled the fake penis experts and phoney doctorate editors of Wackypedia from Russia insisting that if anyone is going to make anyone disappear and decide who is notable, it will be him.
South Korean military wants to ban iPhones
Will not allow us to turn off the microphone
The Tame Apple Press has gotten its knickers in a twist after the South Korean government has decided to ban iPhones in the military over security concerns.
Apple hack was used against more than believed
Polish government used it against hundreds
Despite Apple’s claim that a handful of Apple users were hacked using the Pegasus spyware, the problem appears to have been considerably greater.
US trying to stop Chinese using RISC-V
Will have to use US company tech instead
The US government is working out a way to prevent Chinese companies from developing RISC-V technology.
AMD's Strix spectacular
Slim Laptops to pack Zen 5 power
The spec sheets for AMD's forthcoming APU ranges, Strix Point and Strix Halo, have been leaked, and they're shaping up to be rather smashing.
Intel blames motherboard makers Raptor Lake stability snafus
It was broken before we got there
Intel has found itself grappling with stability concerns over its 13th and 14th Generation Raptor Lake processors and is claiming that the kerfuffle stems from motherboard makers getting a bit too creative with the CPUs' settings - tweaking voltage curves, going wild with automatic overclocking, and tossing power limits out the window.