After 34 years, the screech of the modem is no more

AOL has decided to kill off its dial-up internet service at the end of September, bringing the curtain down on a relic of the early web.

Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward

State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.

AI era shifts priorities at the code-sharing giant

GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke has told staff he is fleeing the Volehill to chase entrepreneurial ambitions, leaving the Open Saucy outfit completely merged with Microsoft.

It is unclear if it is actually legal

Nvidia's CEO's Jensen Huang half-trillion-dollar "carrot" to Donald Trump appeared to get the president to turn a blind eye to his exporting chips to China, proving where diplomacy fails a good kick-back will always succeed.

Navi 33 silicon gets another spin for gamers and workstations

AMD has added two new cards to its line-up, the Radeon RX 7400 for gamers who like to keep their wallets intact, and the Radeon Pro W7400 for the workstation crowd.

Former CEO Craig Barrett urges customers to bankroll Intel’s survival

Former Chipzilla chief Craig Barrett [pictured] has warned that Intel needs a $40 billion cash injection to stay at the sharp end of chip manufacturing and he is not expecting Washington to stump up the money.

May dangle bigger storage to keep punters sweet

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is about to jack up the price of its already overpriced shiny toys later this year.

Leaked report says IT flaw was ignored

The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up after a leaked report revealed HM Courts & Tribunals Service sat on an IT bug that made evidence vanish, be overwritten or appear missing for years.

Three current and former employees detained 

Taiwanese prosecutors have detained three current and former staff of chip giant TSMC on suspicion of stealing core trade secrets, including details of its 2-nanometre manufacturing technology.

I am not highly conflicted

Troubled Chipzilla’s chief executive Lip-Bu Tan [pictured] has fired back at Donald Trump after the US president accused him of being “highly conflicted” and demanded he resign.