With xAI barely using any compute capacity, its parent company, SpaceX, is now aggressively lending out computing resources of the Colossus 1 data center to monetize its heretofore idle resources, all in a bid to improve its IPO-related prospects. As a case in point, SpaceX has just inked an agreement to furnish Google with scarce computing resources after recently inking a similar agreement with Anthropic. SpaceX will furnish Google with "110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components," with the agreement capable of being canceled by either party on a 90-day notice SpaceX has just filed a disclosure with […]

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It was bound to happen eventually, as certain as the alternating day and night. Every new technology has historically unlocked new vectors for fraud, and AI is proving to be particularly fertile for the nefarious-minded, yielding thousands of dollars every month via outright fraud. AI-led fraud schemes are as diverse as lucrative, allowing tricksters to earn thousands of dollars every month A Chinese AI user is apparently earning as much as 100,000 Yuan (~$15,000) every month via AI music creation tools. His modus operandus is quite simple: upload a picture that sets the theme for the track, choose a music […]

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AT&T and Verizon thought they could hide behind legal minutae against an embarrassing fine imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The U.S. legal system, however, was able to rise above these machinations, and has just delivered a resounding blow to the aspirations of AT&T and Verizon to a more lax regulatory environment, as well as claw back, at least temporarily, the punitive fine that they've already paid to the FCC. The U.S. Supreme Court nullifies the basic argument put forth by AT&T and Verizon Back in April 2024, the FCC imposed cumulative fines of nearly $200 million on various […]

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The disparate parts of Apple's sprawling supply chain are gradually coalescing around the final form and specs for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max and its Pro counterpart, with the emerging consensus serving to dampen the prospects of a dramatic overhaul. Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max is now tipped to match the thickness of its predecessor, lending credence to the speculation that not much will change with the upcoming Pro duo To wit, the tipster Ice Universe has now penned a post on Weibo, disclosing that the iPhone 18 Pro Max will sport a thickness of 8.75mm, which matches that […]

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Samsung LSI sought to exploit Samsung Mobile over the past few months by repeatedly hiking the per unit price of its flagship Exynos 2600 chip. Well, Samsung Mobile now appears to be responding to these relentless price gouging tactics by reducing the share of the Exynos 2600 chip within the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8, while increasing its uptake of Qualcomm's more economical Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. Samsung's Exynos 2600 chip is reportedly falling a victim to the fairly myopic ongoing in-house feud that has rendered the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip a much more economical alternative […]

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Apple's new Siri, empowered by a custom Google Gemini model in the cloud, was supposed to run on Apple silicon, or so the maker of iPhones had assured not too long ago. Yet, Apple has struggled to accommodate Google's behemoth of a model on its own servers, forcing the Cupertino-based tech giant to resort to a NVIDIA GPU-based band-aid of sorts to safeguard at least a shred of its privacy-related credentials, all the while hosting the Siri-enabling Gemini model on Google's servers. Apple has to host the new Siri-enabling behemoth of a model on Google's servers for optimal inference, and […]

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As someone who bought Microsoft's Office 2019 lifetime license around 7 years back, the imminent end of support for the software suite on Apple's platforms feels surreal, made all the more incredulous by the patently blasé attitude with which Microsoft is approaching this blatant forced obsolescence. Office 2019 apps on Apple platforms will soon enter the dreaded "reduced functionality mode," preventing you from creating new files or editing existing ones When I bought a lifetime license for Office 2019 near the turn of the ongoing decade, I did not know that a "lifetime" to Microsoft is just around 7 years. […]

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An efficient networking chip appears to be the need of the hour as AI data centers rapidly fill up with a giga-ton of ASICs, GPUs, and orchestration-oriented CPUs. As such, it is hardly a surprise that Google now appears to have tapped Marvell to design a custom networking chip for its TPUs on one of Intel's advanced node processes. Google is tackling the data latency conundrum head-on by tapping Marvell to design a custom networking chip for its TPUs on Intel's advanced lithography For the benefit of those who might not be aware, a networking chip links individual ASICs to […]

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The all-new RTX Spark processor is inarguably the star of NVIDIA's ongoing GTC Taipei event, with the GPU giant managing to bring together ARM, MediaTek, Microsoft, and a host of hardware OEMs in a consequential collaboration that is essentially a shot across the bow of Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. Even so, on a granular level, NVIDIA appears to have gone on a shopping spree for its RTX Spark, essentially ripping apart the Dimensity 9400 and Dimensity 8500 chips for CPU-related architectural inspiration. The CPU of NVIDIA's RTX Spark is essentially a mish-mash of MediaTek's Dimensity 9400 and Dimensity 8500 chips […]

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Apple's first foldable, tentatively dubbed the iPhone Ultra, is now finally picking up pace when it comes to the typical pre-production calibrations, bringing with it an onslaught of juicy tidbits that are able to pass through Apple's sprawling, albeit sieve-like, supply chains. Now, fresh tidbits indicate that the iPhone Ultra will sport a dedicated vapor chamber as well as Samsung's M14 OLED screen instead of the 10-bit M16 one. Apple iPhone Ultra will miss out on Samsung's bleeding-edge OLED panels but come equipped with a dedicated vapor chamber According to the tipster Schrödinger, Apple's upcoming iPhone Ultra will sport Samsung's […]

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In what might well be a script ripped off straight from a James Bond thriller, a Pixel Watch 5 prototype has just been discovered by a scuba driver, and is doing the rounds on social media right now, after it was accidentally dropped by a Google employee while traversing the Caribbean. The unreleased Pixel Watch 5 is being returned to the Google employee who had dropped it in the Caribbean waters, but not before the internet has gotten a good long look at the unreleased device Randy Pitchford of Gearbox fame has just detailed a bizarre incident, where his friend […]

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China's ongoing ability to access advanced AI chips from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD has remained a hard-to-crack conundrum in Washington for quite some time now. Even so, the Trump Administration now appears to be tightening the proverbial screws on these advanced chips by chopping off a major loophole that has allowed Chinese companies to circumvent US-led export controls. The Trump administration is looking to ban the foreign subsidiaries of Chinese companies from accessing AI chips from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD Back in May 2025, the Trump administration created a loophole of sorts for Chinese companies by […]

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NVIDIA is reportedly preparing to unveil a huge new processor-related collaboration with Microsoft and ARM at next week's Computex. While the details surrounding the rumored N1x processors are a closely guarded secret right now, pre-release Geekbench 6 scores are painting a somewhat underwhelming picture, especially when compared with Apple's M-class processors. NVIDIA's upcoming N1x processors are just about able to match the performance of Apple's M3 Max SoC that debuted around two and a half years back For the benefit of those who might not be aware, NVIDIA's N1x processor is believed to be a modified version of the GB10 […]

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AT&T's business support is egregiously atrocious, at least as per a Redditor who has spent hours over the past day or two playing a literal ping-pong between various support lines, where each such line either refuses to acknowledge that it is in fact the pertinent business support line, denies that the number in question belongs to a business account, or simply hangs up. AT&T's business support lines apparently refuse to acknowledge that they are in fact the pertinent business support lines, deny that the customer's number in question belongs to a business account, or just hang up on the call […]

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When a company like Anthropic, which currently commands a polar position within the prevailing narrative around AI's uncontested proliferation, mentions its critical supply chain partner Samsung in a positive light, the key purveyors of the industry pay an inordinate amount of attention, with some even concocting fanciful narratives that might not stand the test of time. We are now in the midst of one such situation, where Anthropic's passing remarks on "logic chips" has unleashed a flood of speculation regarding its possible tie-up with Samsung's fabs. Anthropic highlights the "critical role" that Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron play "in the […]

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We've just received our first glimpse at what the upcoming Apple iPhone 18 Pro lineup might look like, at least the rear half, courtesy of the fairly accurate leaker Sonny Dickson. Apple iPhone 18 Pro dummy units reveal the Dark Cherry and Dark Gray color options in all their glory We reported on a tidbit back in April, one that suggested the iPhone 18 Pro duo will likely come in the following color options: Well, fast forward to today, and we've just received our first inkling as to what the color options on the iPhone 18 Pro lineup might actually […]

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With nary a mystery left as to the upcoming iOS 27 and the new Siri, Apple's WWDC event is starting to feel a bit stale at the edges, especially as a series of leaks have just thoroughly demystified Apple's upcoming goodies, replete with detailed concept-based images of the new UI. A new leak has just given us our first glimpse at what the actual UI on Apple's iOS 27 will look like, replete with the new Siri app in action Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has just given us our first look at what the new UI on the upcoming iOS 27 […]

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Apple is already considering the discontinuation of the MacBook Neo's $599 base variant, which would be equivalent to a stealth price hike of $100. Now, however, as TSMC appears all set to pursue an inflationary pricing regime for its advanced nodes, Apple might have to resort to a bigger price jump to prevent its razor-thin margins on the MacBook Neo from tumbling into the negative territory. Apple's razor-thin margins on the MacBook Neo are now headed for another squeeze, courtesy of TSMC's inflationary pricing for its 3nm node process For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Apple […]

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In what comes as a huge relief for the upper echelons of Samsung's management, the company's unionized workers have just approved the proposed incentives-laden wage deal with an overwhelming majority, removing the threat of a prolonged strike and the attendant disruption in its production cadence. Each worker in Samsung's semiconductor division now stands to earn an average of 509 million won ($370,000) this year As expected, Samsung's semiconductor union that spans 62,616 workers has just voted with a 74 percent majority to approve the proposed incentives-laden wage deal. Interestingly, the deal only received a 21.1 percent support from the union […]

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