OpenAI bottles it on for-profit switch
Charity keeps the leash as Altman plots trillion-dollar AI dreams
OpenAI has abruptly U-turned on its plans to go full corporate, deciding instead to let its nonprofit arm keep control of the outfit’s shiny new for-profit structure.
Users fume at Roku OS 14.5
Roku’s latest update to its operating system has managed to drain the life out of HDR content on several major streaming apps, leaving users stuck watching shows that look like they’ve been filmed through a chalk filter.
Qualcomm outshines in Q2
Markets smell trouble ahead
Qualcomm blew past the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street’s expectations with a $10.9 billion revenue haul for its second fiscal quarter ending March 2025, a 17 per cent rise. Adjusted earnings per share sat at $2.85, comfortably above consensus.
TSMC's 2nm chips on track
AMD beats Apple and Intel to tape-out
TSMC's 2nm process node is cruising through development and is already showing better defect rates than 3nm and 7nm did at the same stage.
Intel dangles 3D cache tease
Trying to copy AMD
Chipzilla might have found a way to copy AMD’s X3D cache magic, using its shiny new 18A-PT process and hybrid bonding trickery.
Chipzilla is king of packaging
Intel plays the packaging card to keep customers
Troubled Chipzilla has decided the path to foundry salvation runs straight through the packaging plant. It’s now shouting from the rooftops that its real ace in the silicon arms race isn’t process nodes but how it wraps the goods.
Killing the cash cow might just hand Big Tech more browser control
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street aren’t the only ones sweating over Google’s looming antitrust smackdown, the big cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation think Firefox could be collateral damage.
Russia, China ramping up dirty space tricks
A 316-page report from the Secure World Foundation paints a grim picture of the growing space arms race, with Russia and China doubling down on satellite jamming, spoofing, and cyber-attacks, especially in active war zones.
KDE Plasma kills off its half-baked LTS
No one liked maintaining it or knew what it meant
KDE Plasma is ditching its long-term support releases in favour of an extended patch schedule for regular updates, after conceding its current LTS system is a bit of a sham.
Grand Theft Auto VI delayed to May 26, 2026
Not coming this Fall
Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI is delayed to May 26th, 2026.