Wall Street worried about Oracle debt
Credit traders see a messy year looming
Oracle’s debt started flashing warning lights in November as its risk gauge climbed to a three-year high, Bloomberg reported, prompting traders to mutter that something unpleasant is brewing.
Chinese firms get their Nvidia fix in Southeast Asia
AI chip is full of holes
Chinese tech behemoths are hauling their prized AI models overseas to gorge on Nvidia’s finest chips while pretending everything is above board.
Intel plots a 52-core monster to take AMD’s X3D crown
Nova Lake has more cache than you can poke a stick at
Troubled Chipzilla looks ready to swing a cricket bat at AMD’s stacked-cache dominance with a wild 52-core Nova Lake brute that reportedly carries 288 MB of vertical last-level cache.
Samsung boffins flip old assumptions to slash NAND power
A 96 per cent power cut in flash.
Boffins working from Samsung Electronics have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have slashed NAND flash power consumption by as much as 96 per cent.
Italian studio faces closure after Steam ban
Who would have thunk that riding naked humans would cause such a stink?
Valve has confirmed that it reviewed and pre-emptively banned the surreal horror Horses game after parts of the store page set off alarm bells, prompting the company to demand a full build review.
India sharpens its antitrust stick and Apple squirms
The Fruity Cargo Cult whinges that it might be fined billions
India’s new antitrust law has given its competition watchdog the freedom to calculate penalties using global turnover, and Job’s Mob is already clutching its pearls about the consequences.
Android may get faster hotspots with a dual-band trick
Google tests a more intelligent hotspot mode
Android has long made setting up a mobile hotspot easy, although the default settings leave you crawling along when the hardware can do far better.
Europe’s space chiefs eye the military realm
Shower ESA with fresh billions
Europe’s space ministers have lobbed a hefty wedge of money at the European Space Agency and, for the first time, told it to build hardware meant for soldiers as well as civilians.
OpenAI’s future rides on mountain of risky loans
Partners stack colossal borrowings around the start-up
OpenAI’s rise looks flashier than a Vegas strip as its data centre pals rack up eye-watering loans so the chatbot darling can scale without sweating the repayments.
AMD bangs open source drum to prise devs away from Cuda
Pitches ROCm as the antidote to Nvidia’s walled garden
AMD reckons it can win over AI developers by offering an open software ecosystem rather than locking everything behind a proprietary moat.