SanDisk hypes up 'Stargate' controller
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.