Apple rumoured to be giving up on the Mac Pro
Published in PC Hardware


Why does it even exist?

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Apple is about to walk away from its Mac Pro range.

Intel axes its next mainstream Xeon platform
Published in Network


Diamond Rapids loses its low-end twin as the server world shifts to fatter memory pipes.

Troubled Chipzilla has binned the eight-channel Diamond Rapids design that was supposed to replace today’s Granite Rapids-SP Xeon 6700P and 6500P chips.

RTX Pro 6000 snaps itself in half during a move
Published in Graphics


$10,000 down the loo

A $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation card reportedly snapped under its own weight during a house move, becoming a pricey brick.

Take-Two boss expects games to drift toward PC
Published in Gaming


Zelnick reckons consoles stay alive, but the real action moves elsewhere.

Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick fired a shot across the bow by saying the games business is drifting toward PCs as the next decade rolls in.

Aisuru botnet hurls record 15.7 Tbps tantrum at Azure
Published in News


IoT junk kit gangs up for the biggest cloud-crunching flood yet.

Microsoft engineers said the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps distributed denial-of-service barrage against Azure and sprayed more than 3.6 billion packets per second at one unlucky Australian endpoint.