The Linux kernel community has started spelling out what happens when Linus Torvalds steps aside and the repo still needs steering. A continuity document has been drafted by longtime kernel ...

DDR4 prices are going through the roof as older tech is seen as a cheap alternative to the overpriced DDR5. According to Ctee, the ‘desperation’ is so bad that DDR4 spot price ...

Nvidia lobbed a $500mn (€420mn) investment offer at Hugging Face late last year, but the AI outfit turned it down. The deal would have valued the group at $7bn (€5.9bn)… ...

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s ultra-thin iPhone Air has tanked in China, and the numbers are ugly enough to make even the fanboys blink. Tipster Ice Universe says: “Apple has managed to sell just ...

Intel is taking swings at AMD again, but says it will not throw its hat into the high-end APU ring. Recent reviews of Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 line have shown it looking shar ...

Valve is heading for a nasty day out in a UK courtroom as London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled a £656m (€756.2m) lawsuit can continue, after Valve argued it should not ...

Software King of the World, Microsoft, wants everyone to know it has a new inference chip and it thinks the maths finally works. Volish executive vice president Cloud + AI Scott G ...

Artificial brains outfit Nvidia just lobbed another $2bn at CoreWeave. On 26 January 2026, the pair said they would build new “AI factories” on Nvidia’s computing platform, run by CoreWeave,… ...

Sapphire’s RX 9070 XT Nitro+ keeps getting named and shamed on Reddit over its overheating 16 pin cards. Fresh reports keep popping up every few weeks, and the Nitro+ seems to a ...

Samsung is lining up HBM4 shipments for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI lineup as soon as June, a handy turnaround for a business that was wobbling. HBM4 is being sold as a “revolution ...

The boring end of IT hardware has started printing money, and memory and storage shares are soaring as investors chase “insatiable” chip demand and a supply squeeze. Data storage firms… The boring end ...

A top Chinese humanoid robot maker says its latest machines are only half as efficient as human workers. UBTech chief brand officer Michael Tam said the firm’s Walker S2 robots were 30 to 50 per cent ...