PC and smartphone growth hits the skids
UBS and Gartner slash forecasts
Beancounters at UBS and Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reduced their PC and smartphone market forecasts, citing “mounting pressures from trade tariffs and broader macroeconomic uncertainties” that will hammer consumer demand through 2026.
EU slaps Apple and Meta with landmark DMA fines
Trump screams extortion
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been handed a €500 million ($570 million) slap by EU regulators, with Facebook flogger Meta coughing up €200 million, in the first real show of teeth under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.
Quantum messaging works over 254km
Didn’t need to freeze the quantum cats
A team of German boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs having sent the first-ever coherent quantum communications across 254 km of bog-standard telecoms fibre.
Chipzilla boosts Arrow Lake
Promises “free” gaming gains with 200S Boost profile
Troubled Chipzilla is shouting about Arrow Lake improvements, this time hawking a “free” update it claims will perk up gaming frame rates—if you're running the right kit and pray to the overclocking gods.
No wonder reviews are so rare
Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 Ti has launched in two versions, with 16GB and 8GB memory, and it appears that the 8GB version is as bad as everyone thought, with a significant performance gap between 16GB and 8GB in some titles.