Intel CEO pick tangled in PLA-linked Chinese investments
Lip-Bu Tan's deep China ties
Silicon Valley investor Lip-Bu Tan, who was tapped to steer troubled Chipzilla out of its tailspin, holds financial stakes in hundreds of Chinese tech outfits, some with direct links to the People’s Liberation Army.
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.
Trump's tariffs force Framework to yank laptops from US store
Taiwan import tax turns budget gear into a money-loser
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s latest tariff bomb has claimed its first public tech casualty—Framework has pulled two Laptop 13 models from its US store, citing cold, hard economics.
China's army of tech engineers saving the country
US’s army of CEOs is not that useful
China’s army of engineers may be poised to give the US a costly wedgie in the tech arena.
Huawei dumping US hardware
Kirin X90 chip just as good as Intel
Huawei is tightening the screws on its great American tech purge, marching ahead with plans to rid its personal computers of anything remotely tied to Silicon Valley.
Europe’s tech industry wants radical action
Europe first rather than propping up US big tech
Europe’s tech boffins have penned a desperate plea to the EU, demanding “radical action” to cut the bloc’s reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure before the whole thing collapses into a tech vassal state of the Yanks or the Chinese.
US surrenders systems to Russian hackers
The Russians are not a threat any more
President Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump's administration has decided that Russia is no longer a cyber threat to the United States.
HP customers face 15-minute call wait
Tech giant pushes online support
The maker of printer ink, which is about as expensive as racehorse sperm, has quietly introduced a 15-minute minimum wait time for consumer PC and print customers who attempt to phone its call centre for support.
China's tech giants shrug off US restrictions
Dependence on US chips and operating systems rapidly decreasing
It would appear that US sanctions have done the opposite of what they were supposed to -- the have sped up China's chip and operating system development leading it to be less dependant on the US tech oligarchs.
