Platform logs hint at a power-hungry monster

Intel's next-gen Diamond Rapids Xeon parts have shown up in NBD’s shipment records, and the numbers suggest these chips will need a miniature power station to run.

Bloomberg pours cold water on CEO-exit fantasies as engineers flee for shinier toys

The fruity cargo cult, Apple cannot even manage a clean rumour cycle these days, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now rubbish­ing earlier claims that Tim Cook was about to shuffle off the CEO perch next year.

Prices rise by ten per cent

AMD has told its graphics card partners to brace for a price rise across its entire GPU lineup after DRAM costs shot up again, putting an end to the brief spell when Radeon RX 9000 cards drifted back to their launch stickers.

RFID party trick goes sideways after forgotten password

A hi-tech stage magician managed to baffle himself after forgetting the password to an RFID chip he had implanted in his hand.

Defecting Windows users make up the bulk of the curious crowd

Open saucy Zorin OS 18 has clocked a million downloads in a single month, which is not bad for a Linux distro trying to lure disillusioned Windows refugees.

Shareholders told that the long-promised billions may never arrive

Napster stunned its faithful when an online shareholder meeting on 20 November revealed that the massive investor it had been boasting about since January was unlikely to deliver the cash.

Invests billions away from Finland

Former rubber boot maker Nokia is chucking billions into the US as it tries to make its networking gear look clever enough for the AI circus.

The long-teased graphics tech is meant to land on 10 December

The next-gen FidelityFX update FSR Redstone will start rolling out from 10 December.

Black Friday exposes just how badly the new CPUs are struggling

Troubled Chipzilla’s Core Ultra 200 series has seen its prices nearly halved since launch, a sign of how little love the Arrow Lake chips are getting. Amazon’s Black Friday sale pushed them to fresh lows, and some models now sell for barely half their original tags.

Quad-rank CKDs promise fatter modules for next-gen desktops

JEDEC is hammering out a CQDIMM standard for DDR5 CKD memory that will let future platforms cram in far higher capacities without slowing everything to a crawl.