Siri spirals into chaos
Published in AI


Voice assistant flounders while rivals sprint into the future

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s 13-year-old digital dunce Siri is proving more useless than ever, infuriating users while other tech firms surge ahead with bleeding-edge AI chatbots.

AMD 9800X3D chips under fire
Published in Graphics


Flaming expensive 

More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards.

Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 set to muscle in without Oryon
Published in Mobiles


A premium chip minus the flagship price tag

Qualcomm appears ready to give its Snapdragon 8 series a fresh kick with the upcoming Gen 4 version, designed for consumers who want flagship performance without paying flagship prices.

AMD cosies up to Rapt AI to claw into Nvidia’s turf
Published in News


Improving inferencing performance and GPU chaos with workload wizardry

Underdog chipmaker AMD is teaming up with Rapt AI in a strategic move to boost performance on its Instinct GPU lineup and tackle the AI infrastructure headaches that have plagued would-be innovators.

Vole gives BSOD a makeover
Published in News


Paint it black

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has plans to make the infamous Blue Screen of Death crash message in Windows 11 less blue and a bit more bleak.