PC market claws back thanks to Windows 10’s demise
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Os deadline and tariff tinkering push PC shipments up 8.1 per cent

Global PC shipments are finally showing signs of life, rising 8.1 per cent year on year in the third quarter of 2025, according to Counterpoint Research.

Xbox queen says next console will be ‘very premium’ and ‘very high-end’
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Bond confirms model will be shaken not stirred

Software King of the World Microsoft's Xbox president and chief executive Sarah Bond has confirmed Vole is working on its next-generation console and wants everyone to know it will not be cheap and cheerful.

Intel jacks up the price of Raptor Lake
Published in PC Hardware


Lunar Lake fails to take off

Troubled Chipzilla's next-generation Lunar Lake processors are sitting unloved on shelves while everyone scrambles to buy the older, cheaper Raptor Lake chips.

SanDisk memory card survived wreck of the Titan
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Investigators uncover a working memory card two years after doomed dive

Recovery teams sifting through the wreckage of the OceanGate Titan submersible have made an extraordinary discovery.

Alibaba cloud says its Aegaeon GPU system cuts Nvidia use by 82 per cent
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Scheduler squeezes more work from fewer H20 accelerators

Alibaba Cloud boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs having found a way to make Nvidia’s costly GPUs actually earn their keep.

Apple throws tantrum over EU big tech rules
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Laws for everyone else shouldn’t apply to its sacred walled garden

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has stomped into a Luxembourg courtroom, throwing its toys out of the pram claiming that Europe’s Digital Markets Act is too mean for a company of its delicate constitution.

Nexperia’s China arm tells staff to ignore Dutch bosses
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Beijing’s patience snaps

Nexperia’s Chinese operation has effectively gone rogue, telling its workers they can bin any orders from its Dutch headquarters as the row between Beijing and The Hague blows up into open defiance.

Blackrock sinks billions into Meta’s Louisiana AI project
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AI gold rush burns through even more cash

BlackRock has thrown billions into Meta’s latest AI adventure, backing a massive private-debt deal that could fund a mega data centre.

AMD Zen 5 APUs may finally land on AM5 desktops
Published in PC Hardware


Krackan released on desktop before year’s end

AMD might finally be ready to bring its long-awaited Zen 5-based APUs to the mainstream AM5 platform, if a new AGESA BIOS leak is to be believed.

Nvidia scrambled to keep OpenAI from running to Google
Published in Cloud


Jensen Huang made the $100 billion deal a top priority

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang apparently panicked when rumours spread that OpenAI might start using Google’s custom silicon for its massive AI workloads.