Gamers Nexus uncovers a CPU with no guts 

Someone’s been flogging bogus AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips online, and someone sent a dud to Gamers Nexus who cracked it open to find absolutely nothing inside.

Two new hyperscalers signed up as demand surges for custom silicon

Chip designer Marvell reckons it has landed two new hyperscale cloud clients and is sniffing around more than 50 other deals as demand for its customised AI silicon keeps growing.

 
Tame Apple Press celebrates a ghost product while rivals deliver the goods

The Tame Apple Press has breathlessly hyped up a foldable device from Jobs’ Mob, promising an innovation that would once again change everything. Except there is no product, no launch, and no clarity on whether it is an iPad or a MacBook. The only thing Apple seems to have delivered is confusion and delay.

More than 6,000 Voles to go

Software King of the World, Microsoft is sharpening the axe again, swinging for three per cent of its global workforce to strip out middle managers and trim its flabby international operations.

Looking to AI to sort things out

Bookshifter Amazon warned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street that the US tariff policy is battering its bottom line. Shares dipped 2.3 per cent in after-hours trading after the company had a weaker-than-expected forecast for the second quarter.

Retail giant wants to go it alone in the tech world

Amazon is taking a huge swing at the tech world by dumping Android and rolling out its own Linux-based Vega OS. The retail giant reckons it can reshape how millions use Fire TV devices and other hardware.

Bezos puts a rocket up SpaceX

After years of puff and prep, Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper is lobbing its first 27 satellites into orbit in a $10 billion (£7.8 billion) swing at Starlink, the Elon [Roman Salute] Musk-powered behemoth that lords over the skies.

Anubis protects Xe Iaso's Git repository 

Software developer Xe Iaso has had enough of playing digital whack-a-mole with Amazon’s AI scrapers.

Don't trust Musk and Trump 

The Dutch want to reduce their dependence on Big US tech companies.

Wants to become the Ministry of Truth

The Federal Trade Commission has seemingly taken a page out of the Ministry of Truth’s playbook, quietly deleting over 300 blog posts from its archives which are critical of big tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft.