
AI hype fizzles, but $644 billion is still on the table
Gartner says GenAI hits a “Trough of Disillusionment.”
Despite a slew of gimmicky flops and creeping consumer scepticism, the generative AI bandwagon is still rolling along.

Vole punts pricey plastic brick for cloudy PCs
Dumb and dumber
The Software King of the World has officially released its Windows 365 Link—a dinky $349 (£349) black box that connects users to Windows Cloud PCs running in Azure.

AMD torches Chipzilla in CPU sales again
Ryzen 9800X3D flies off shelves as Core Ultra 200S faceplants
AMD’s Ryzen army continues to stomp on Troubled Chipzilla’s silicon dreams, with March 2025 sales figures showing Ryzen chips practically owning Amazon’s CPU charts in the US.

Trump torpedoes Euro tech with fresh tariffs
Odd really, if it were not for the French, America would be speaking English
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump has fired another shot in his trade tantrum, this time slapping a 20 per cent tariff on tech imports from the EU—twice what the UK copped, and still lighter than the 32 per cent brick dropped on Switzerland.

Musk minion snoops on child trauma files
DOGE staffer gets eyes on therapy records of vulnerable migrant kids
One of Elon [Roman Salute] Musk’s DOGE foot soldiers has his mitts on a US government database packed with trauma and mental health records of unaccompanied migrant children.