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.
Trump torpedoes Euro tech with fresh tariffs
Odd really, if it were not for the French, America would be speaking English
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump has fired another shot in his trade tantrum, this time slapping a 20 per cent tariff on tech imports from the EU—twice what the UK copped, and still lighter than the 32 per cent brick dropped on Switzerland.
Musk minion snoops on child trauma files
DOGE staffer gets eyes on therapy records of vulnerable migrant kids
One of Elon [Roman Salute] Musk’s DOGE foot soldiers has his mitts on a US government database packed with trauma and mental health records of unaccompanied migrant children.
Ryzen 7 9800X3D bricking fixed
BIOS update sorts it
AMD claims to have fixed a bricking problem with its Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a BIOS update.
Chipzilla lurches into 18A risk production
Panther Lake to be first guinea pig
Troubled Chipzilla has just pushed its long-delayed 18A node into "risk production"—the transitional stage before actual mass manufacturing—signalling that real chips might finally roll off the line by year’s end.
Nintendo’s Switch 2 lands on 5 June
$450 for more pixels, power and features
Nintendo finally spilled the beans about the long-awaited Switch 2, telling the gathered throngs during Direct that it will hit the shelves on 5 June, priced at $450.
