Instagram tops the list of privacy nightmares
Meta’s chat platforms lead Webshare’s hall of shame for leaky apps
Meta’s Instagram DMs have been named the least private digital service in a damning new study from proxy company Webshare.
US giants queue up for TSMC's Arizona silicon
TSMC's stateside fabs are in hot demand
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, Supermicro, Nvidia, and Broadcom are all shoving each other to the front of the queue for production capacity at TSMC’s Arizona factory.
Google dumps Samsung for TSMC on Pixel 10
G5 processor gets built on N3P as Pixel shifts foundry strategy
Google has ditched Samsung as the maker of its Tensor chips and signed up with TSMC.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT joins the GPU BBQ club
16-pin connectors proving they’re a fire hazard
AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT has entered the melting connector hall of shame after a user on Reddit managed to cook their 16-pin power cable trying to run an ASRock Taichi OC model on a questionable PSU setup.
Nvidia pulls plug on China-only H20 GPU
Nvidia backs away as Chinese market turns sour
Nvidia appears to be winding down its H20 GPU line for China, as the economic and political winds continue to blow straight in its face.
Nvidia tapes out Rubin chips
Huang reckons Rubin will reshape compute from the ground up
Nvidia supreme dalek Jensen Huang has confirmed that his outfit is already elbows-deep in its next big AI architecture, Rubin, which is apparently going to be a full-blown “revolution” for the compute world.
Apple exec accused of creating a toxic hellhole
Star fitness VP at Job’s Mob allegedly bullied staff and got protected
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s golden fitness guru Jay Blahnik [pictured], once hailed as the genius behind the Apple Watch’s double entendre “Close Your Rings” gimmick, has found himself at the centre of a growing storm over claims of bullying, sexual harassment, and general workplace toxicity.
Aussie boffins get quantum gates running on a single atom
Sydney team cracks GKP code using harmonic motion in a trapped ion
Quantum researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have emerged from their smoke filled labs having built a working entangling logic gate using just one atom and a fiendishly complicated error-correcting code known as the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) scheme.
Wall Street Journal hackette finally notices Apple’s AI is rubbish
Nguyen realises the Pixel 10 actually works
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s grip on reality is slipping, and not even its favourite tame journos are buying the hype anymore. Nicole Nguyen [pictured] at the Wall Street Journal appears to have broken ranks after playing with Google’s Pixel 10.
Qualcomm slaps satellite on new smartwatch chip
Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 adds safety tricks but not much grunt
Qualcomm has refreshed its smartwatch silicon after three years, but anyone hoping for a serious performance leap will have to keep waiting.
