AI hype fizzles, but $644 billion is still on the table
Gartner says GenAI hits a “Trough of Disillusionment”
Despite a slew of gimmicky flops and creeping consumer scepticism, the generative AI bandwagon is still rolling along.
Vole punts pricey plastic brick for cloudy PCs
Dumb and dumber
The Software King of the World has officially released its Windows 365 Link—a dinky $349 (£349) black box that connects users to Windows Cloud PCs running in Azure.
iPhone starts installing random Chinese apps
iOS 18.4 "feature" shoves Chinese games onto iPhones without asking
Some iPhone users updating to iOS 18.4 are getting more than they bargained for—namely, surprise apps appearing on their Home Screens, including dubious-looking games like Cooking Mama and Squid Game knockoffs.
AMD torches Chipzilla in CPU sales again
Ryzen 9800X3D flies off shelves as Core Ultra 200S faceplants
AMD’s Ryzen army continues to stomp on Troubled Chipzilla’s silicon dreams, with March 2025 sales figures showing Ryzen chips practically owning Amazon’s CPU charts in the US.
Vole jams brakes on global server sprawl
Microsoft trims data centre ambitions
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, is quietly pulling back on data centre projects from Chicago to Jakarta as jitters grow over AI demand forecasts and the cost of building its cloudy empire.
