Trump phone promise collapses into refurb farce
Missing handset, inflated refurbs and patriotic bluster fill the gap
Trump Mobile’s long-promised T1 handset still hasn't appeared, leaving customers waiting as the operation flogs refurbished phones at inflated prices instead.
Microsoft dusts off old tricks to scare users off Chrome
Edge gets the hard sell in new browser wars
Software King of the World, Microsoft, is once again trying to stop users from downloading Google Chrome, and nobody who has watched this industry for five minutes will be shocked.
Apple toys with a bargain MacBook with an old iPhone brain
Recycled silicon reality
A cheaper MacBook could soon shove aside the MacBook Air. However, the fruity cargo cult Apple seems undecided about whether it deserves modern silicon or the brain of an ancient iPhone 13 it might have lying around.
Meta looks like it is binning its ‘open’ headset dream
Horizon OS partners left staring at the wall
Meta has slammed the brakes on its third-party VR headset scheme, effectively killing Horizon OS devices from Asus and Lenovo.
Baltra is just another Apple chip to feed the inference beast
Custom silicon, same old dependency
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple's over-hyped server chip may be to provide the outfit with its own cloud AI silicon, which is getting too expensive.
Apple slapped down again as appeal fizzles
Epic smells blood while developers eye Job’s Mob warily
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has lost its appeal against a brutal contempt ruling, leaving a long-running iOS payments fight tilted firmly against it.
Memory shortages push laptops back to eight gigabytes
DRAM drought sends prices north and specs south
Laptop makers are running out of memory and patience as DRAM shortages start to bite hard across the supply chain.
MediaTek frets over pricey 2nm chips for 2026
May juggle two Dimensity 9600 variants
MediaTek’s lone flagship Dimensity 9600 for 2026 is shaping up to be a costly beast as the Taiwanese fabless outfit wrestles with soaring 2nm wafer prices and rumours of switching to a dual-chipset strategy.
TSMC’s CoWoS backlog sparks outsourcing scramble
Taiwan giant turns to local partners as packaging crunch bites
TSMC is stuffed to the rafters with CoWoS orders, and the AI industry is sweating over it, although the company seems to have a cunning plan.
Chinese phonemakers smell blood as Apple stalls on AI
Local brands push switcher apps to poach Job’s Mob users
Chinese phonemakers are pushing hard to lure punters from the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple as the outfit struggles to roll out its AI features in the world’s biggest smartphone arena.