The Linux kernel community has started spelling out what happens when Linus Torvalds steps aside and the repo still needs steering. A continuity document has been drafted by longtime kernel ...

Nvidia lobbed a $500mn (€420mn) investment offer at Hugging Face late last year, but the AI outfit turned it down. The deal would have valued the group at $7bn (€5.9bn)… ...

AMD’s APU graphics have not had a proper shake-up since RDNA 3, and RDNA 3.5 was mainly an optimised tweak rather than a new direction. While AMD has moved discrete GPUs onto RD ...

Arms group Rheinmetall and satellite builder OHB are in talks to launch a joint bid for an Elon Musk-style broadband constellation for the German armed forces. People familiar with the… ...

A top Chinese humanoid robot maker says its latest machines are only half as efficient as human workers. UBTech chief brand officer Michael Tam said the firm’s Walker S2 robots were 30 to 50 per cent ...

Blue Origin has decided rockets are not enough and is now punting a satellite internet network called TeraWave, promising data speeds up to 6 Tbps for enterprise, data centre and ...

Big tech’s AI appetite has already hammered standalone RAM kits, with prices up… AI server demand is squeezing memory supply, and PC parts are getting pricier and harder to buy. Big tech’s AI appetite ...

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s ultra-thin iPhone Air has tanked in China, and the numbers are ugly enough to make even the fanboys blink. Tipster Ice Universe says: “Apple has managed to sell just ...

Software King of the World, Microsoft, wants everyone to know it has a new inference chip and it thinks the maths finally works. Volish executive vice president Cloud + AI Scott G ...

N1 and N1X are tipped for Windows on ARM notebooks soon, with N2 and N2X pencilled in for 2027. The plan has been rumbling since last year, when rumours said Nvidia wanted to lean ...

The boring end of IT hardware has started printing money, and memory and storage shares are soaring as investors chase “insatiable” chip demand and a supply squeeze. Data storage firms… The boring end ...

Asus says it has started an internal review after reports that AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have died on its X870E and X870 boards. The complaints are still easy to find on Reddit, w ...