UK to ban public sector ransom payments after cyber attacks
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
