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.
Chinese firms get their Nvidia fix in Southeast Asia
AI chip is full of holes
Chinese tech behemoths are hauling their prized AI models overseas to gorge on Nvidia’s finest chips while pretending everything is above board.
SonicWall scrambles (again) to patch SSL-VPN flaw
Can remotely face-plant its firewalls
SonicWall is back in the spotlight this week, unfortunately for SonicWall, after rushing out emergency fixes for yet another high-severity SonicOS vulnerability that lets attackers remotely crash its firewalls.Yes, again.
SSD shortages are getting worse
Samsung just made sure of it
SSD shortages are here, prices are climbing, and the world’s largest NAND producer just took one foot off the gas.
Intel plots a 52-core monster to take AMD’s X3D crown
Nova Lake has more cache than you can poke a stick at
Troubled Chipzilla looks ready to swing a cricket bat at AMD’s stacked-cache dominance with a wild 52-core Nova Lake brute that reportedly carries 288 MB of vertical last-level cache.
Samsung boffins flip old assumptions to slash NAND power
A 96 per cent power cut in flash.
Boffins working from Samsung Electronics have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have slashed NAND flash power consumption by as much as 96 per cent.
Italian studio faces closure after Steam ban
Who would have thunk that riding naked humans would cause such a stink?
Valve has confirmed that it reviewed and pre-emptively banned the surreal horror Horses game after parts of the store page set off alarm bells, prompting the company to demand a full build review.