Nick Farrell

IREN deal gives Redmond a mountain of Nvidia GPUs Software King of the World, Microsoft has decided that the best way to stay on top of the AI arms race is to buy its way there. Vole has inked a $9.7 billion deal with bitcoin miner and data centre operator IREN to grab access to thousands of Nvidia...

Kicking Pat Gelsinger wants ‘faith-based AI’ Ex-Chipzilla chief Patrick [Kicking] Gelsinger now preaching digital salvation through chatbots and church tech. Three months after being forced out of Intel and sued by shareholders, Gelsinger has re-emerged as executive chair and head of technology at G...

Customers still want humans Agentic AI is transforming customer service in the insurance world by delivering fast, intelligent responses while still leaning on human backup to keep everything from going off the rails. Number crunchers at the Analytics outfit GlobalData said AI is already proving use...

Schoolboy bugs in mission-critical systems The cybersecurity industry has found itself in the awkward position of being pwned by the same ancient flaws it has been warning everyone else about for decades. Critics are now asking why basic vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows, command injections,...

Tool aims to push chipmaking into the ‘More-than-Moore’ era Dutch chip gear maker ASML has lifted the kimono its Twinscan XT:260, a new lithography scanner built for the brave new world of 3D chip packaging. The outfit claims that it is the first machine of its kind, marking a shift from the front-e...

Kernel web stack faceplants, registry hacks and rollbacks ensue Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 patch tripped over its own shoelaces and knocked out localhost, leaving devs unable to reach web apps running on their own machines. The October cumulative update KB5066835 landed on 17 October 2025 and pro...

Cohesity Research shows small firms remain sitting ducks  A third of UK workers reckon hackers only go after big corporations and that small businesses are beneath their notice. However, according to research from number crunchers at Data security outfit Cohesity, that blinkered view flies in t...

Flashy deals don't fill fabs Troubled Chipzilla’s ex-boss, Pat [kicking] Gelsinger, has waded in on the firm’s latest equity-focused bromances with the US government and Nvidia, warning that none of it matters if they don’t result in chips getting made in Intel fabs. Speaking to CNBC, Gelsinger...

New UK digital rules bite as regulator eyes AI search and publishers’ control The UK competition regulator has decided Google needs a tighter leash. After a nine-month probe of Google's nether regions, the Competition and Markets Authority said the search and ads giant qualifies for “strategic m...

Exec says Intel shouldn’t be carrying freeloading rivals  Troubled Chipzilla’s long-standing love affair with open sauce might be heading for rocky times after one of its top brass suggested it’s time to stop being everyone’s free R&D department. Speaking at the company’s Tech Tour in Arizo...