
Global IT services spending hits the brakes
Growth to halve by 2029
After years of throwing cash at IT services like drunken sailors, companies worldwide are finally putting their wallets away. New data shows that spending growth in the sector is about to collapse by half before the end of the decade.

Nvidia hikes GPU prices
Even before the scalpers get their paws on them
Nvidia is jacking up prices across almost its entire product line to keep its profits fat while tariffs and soaring manufacturing costs hammer the business.

SanDisk hypes up 'Stargate' controller
Blast SSD to 512 TB
Sandisk chief executive David Goeckeler has been banging on about a new SSD controller called Stargate, promising a “dynamite project” without actually revealing much beyond the name.

Apple prepares to gouge iPhone buyers
Cook does not want to blame tariffs
The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple is plotting price hikes for its autumn iPhone 17 lineup while pretending tariffs have nothing to do with it.

Softbank shocks Wall Street with €3.27bn profit
Son pulls a rabbit out of his telecom hat
Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by posting a €3.27 billion quarterly profit, fuelled by telecom holdings and a rare bout of investment luck.

Nintendo threatens to brick hacked Switches
Gamers face console death penalty for stepping out of line
Nintendo has slipped a nasty surprise into its May 2025 user agreement, giving itself the right to permanently brick Switch and Switch 2 consoles if players hack or pirate games.

SAP surrenders to US and drops diversity programmes
Vows to keep women out of top management
The German maker of expensive management software, which no one really knows what it does, SAP, has axed its 40 per cent female workforce quota, according to a leaked internal memo.

Musk’s xAI accused of spewing filth over Memphis
Colossus supercomputer sparks pollution row
Elon Musk’s AI outfit, xAI, has managed to become one of Memphis’ biggest air polluters kicking off a storm among residents already battling industrial filth.

Infinity Nikki’s 1.5 update triggers player revolt
Infold Games slammed for bugs, greed, and gutting the story
Infinity Nikki’s big Steam debut was supposed to be a victory lap. Instead, Infold Games faceplanted into a wall of player rage.

Microsoft and OpenAI bicker over AI
Reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance
OpenAI and the software King of the World Microsoft are reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance so the ChatGPT maker can flog shares in a future IPO without losing its golden pipeline to AI wizardry.