
Smartphones to outnumber humans
Chinese brands blitz old guard
By late 2027 or early 2028, the planet will have more smartphones than people, and the industry's old titans are watching the tide turn.

Trump caves on Nvidia crackdown after $1m Mar-a-Lago knees-up
China export curbs on H20 AI chips safe
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s White House has quietly shelved a looming crackdown on Nvidia’s H20 chip exports to China, just days after the GPU peddler’s CEO Jensen Huang dined at Mar-a-Lago — where seats went for a $1 million a head.

Firms flounder with basic AI data prep
Most data to messy or misplaced
According to a new study by Nasuni, only one in five firms reckons their data is fit for AI use, meaning a paltry 27 per cent of artificial intelligence projects are delivering anything close to a return on investment.

Amazon scrambles skyward to challenge Starlink
Bezos puts a rocket up SpaceX
After years of puff and prep, Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper is lobbing its first 27 satellites into orbit in a $10 billion (£7.8 billion) swing at Starlink, the Elon [Roman Salute] Musk-powered behemoth that lords over the skies.

Musk rage-quits livestream after PoE2 trolling meltdown
Private jet gaming stunt ends in humiliation and mockery
Elon [Roman Salute] Musk’s latest attempt to prove he’s an elite gamer went down in flames—live—aboard his private jet, as a brutal wave of online trolling forced him to abruptly pull the plug mid-stream.

Investor bets big on AMD’s AI ‘second place’
Inference, not training, may be AMD’s golden ticket
AMD might be down 50 per cent in six months, but investor Yiannis Zourmpanos (pictured) is doubling down, insisting the market’s missing the point. While the chipmaker continues to trail Nvidia, he says the prize isn’t in training gargantuan AI models—it’s in running them.

Neptune RAT resurfaces
Vole versus Rat
Software King of the Word, Microsoft's 800 million-strong user base just got served a nasty reminder of what life looks like without security updates—thanks to the retooled and ruthless Neptune RAT now making the rounds.

Stanford warns China’s AI chase is nearly neck-and-neck
US dominance wanes as Beijing’s benchmarks surge
The US might still be top of the AI table, but China is legging it fast, closing the gap in quality and influence, according to Stanford’s latest Artificial Intelligence Index.

Razer yanks Blade 16 preorders from US site
Trump’s tariff hammer sends gaming kit into digital limbo
Razer has pulled the plug on US preorders for its upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops, just days after Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s latest tariff barrage on Chinese, Taiwanese, and other tech supply sources sent ripples through the hardware industry.

UK’s algorithmic precrime plan sparks outrage
Ministry of Justice project aims to predict future killers
Britain's justice boffins are hatching a Minority Report scheme to create a “murder prediction” tool using personal data to flag those it deems most likely to kill—critics say it’s straight out of dystopia.