Intel's Wildcat Lake refresh leaks point to a modest core bump
Entry-level chiplet parts try to look exciting for 2027
Troubled Chipzilla’s bargain bin Wildcat Lake chips have not even landed yet, and already the usual leakers say a refresh is brewing.
What if we had a year of Linux on the desktop and no one realised?
Fanboys insist we are getting the numbers wrong
For years, Linux fanboys have been insisting that this year will be the time of Linux on the desktop. Now, ZDnet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols thinks the take-up of Linux is much higher than numbers suggest.
OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts
Ads creep into the bot that was meant to stay clean
OpenAI looks poised to repeat the same clangers that turned Amazon and YouTube into rolling billboards by shoving ads into ChatGPT.
Wall Street worried about Oracle debt
Credit traders see a messy year looming
Oracle’s debt started flashing warning lights in November as its risk gauge climbed to a three-year high, Bloomberg reported, prompting traders to mutter that something unpleasant is brewing.
AMD hints at coming Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU
Faster 8-core with 3D V-Cache
AMD has surprisingly listed the rumored Ryzen 7 9850X3D SKU on its driver website, confirming one of the two Zen 5 SKUs that were spotted earlier. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is an 8-core/16-thread SKU with a 4.7GHz clock and 120W TDP.