UK to ban public sector ransom payments after cyber attacks
Published in News


Starve ransomware gangs of easy cash

The UK government plans to stop public sector bodies and critical infrastructure operators from paying off ransomware crooks, even if it means enduring painful outages.

Sony tests PS5 power saver mode 
Published in Gaming
Thursday, 24 July 2025 09:23

Sony tests PS5 power saver mode 


New feature will throttle games to cut energy use

Sony is fiddling with a new Power Saver mode for the PlayStation 5, promising lower power consumption at the cost of reduced performance.

Palmer Luckey wants to build made-in-America laptops
Published in PC Hardware


Oculus and Anduril founder reckons some Yanks will pay extra

The bloke behind Oculus and the defence-tech darling Anduril, Palmer Luckey wants to take on laptops. But not your usual “assembled in the States with bits from Shenzhen” nonsense. He’s wants to build a Made in USA machine that ticks the Federal Trade Commission’s uncompromising box.

OpenAI's UK arm swimming in cash after ChatGPT boom
Published in AI


Profits soar while government rolls out the red carpet

OpenAI’s Blighty outfit has gone from pocket change to piles of cash in barely a year.

AMD's triple-slot RX 7000 cooler leaks
Published in News
Wednesday, 23 July 2025 11:17

AMD's triple-slot RX 7000 cooler leaks


Three 8-pins, three slots, and three years too late

Sometimes cancelled products often reveal more than those that launch. A leaked Radeon RX 7000-series cooler, unknowingly bought on a Chinese marketplace, has dwarfed an RX 7900 XTX when compared.

Nvidia’s H20 chip ban is lifted, but the production mess is just beginning
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Supply chain pressed snooze

The much-hyped lifting of the US ban on Nvidia’s H20 AI chips sounds like a win, but the reality is a lot messier.

Nvidia makes CUDA play nice with RISC-V
Published in News
Wednesday, 23 July 2025 10:01

Nvidia makes CUDA play nice with RISC-V


GPU giant eyes open silicon for edge

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia dropped a bombshell by revealing that its CUDA software platform will now run on RISC-V CPUs.

Wi-fi signals can now ‘fingerprint’ you just by how your body blocks them
Published in Mobiles


Roman boffins claim they can spot you without your phone

Roman researchers have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a method of tracking people using only the way their bodies muck about with Wi-Fi signals.

Musk hunts for another $12 billion to fuel xAI’s AI arms race
Published in AI


Looking down the back of the sofa

Elon Musk is scraping together yet more billions to keep xAI from falling behind in the blood-soaked artificial intelligence arms race.

AI search traffic jumps as brands scramble to keep up
Published in AI

Chatbots chip away at Google’s dominance

AI-powered chatbots are fast becoming a go-to for online answers, eating into the long-standing grip of traditional search engines and giving marketers another headache.