Chris M Evans
@chrismevans.me
Owner, founder and Principal Analyst at Architecting IT. Food lover, eater and maker. Husband, father. Lover of all things computing (except perhaps Networking). https://architecting.it
Seeing so many more scooters around our village. Most are being ridden by children whose parents must have purchased them on their behalf. Lock the parents up, I say! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
E-bike injury payouts top £110m and push up insurance premiums
It is only seven years since the first claim over an injury from a micromobility vehicle was made.
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Let’s be honest, teachers want to watch the football, so deflect the issue by appearing to be magnanimous and let children come in late.
Shrewd political positioning by AI companies to manage the regulation risk, or capitulating to a protection racket? You decide.... www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/o...
OpenAI proposes 5% stake to Trump administration to ease Washington pressure: report
Trump said in June that the U.S. taking an ownership stake in AI giants would be "a beautiful thing" and make American public "partners in this revolution."
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42,500 tons of frozen food they can't put out. How could so much frozen food cause an inferno? edition.cnn.com/2026/06/22/u...
A fire at a cold-storage warehouse in Los Angeles has been burning for days. Here’s what we know | CNN
The thick, noxious smoke billowing out of a warehouse in Los Angeles has turned into a fixture in the city’s skyline for almost a week – with no end in sight.
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Very interested in how they recovered the final £3.82. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bradford drug dealer caught with £1.6m cash jailed
Zulfiqar Shah, 58, is jailed for 16 years and six months at Bradford Crown Court.
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Some of SoftBank's investments have been questionable (WeWork, cough), but I think there's genuinely something possible with robot automation of data centres. (1/5) www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/s...
SoftBank reportedly weighs $100 billion valuation for new AI and robotics spinout in potential U.S. IPO
SoftBank Group is planning to create and list a standalone artificial intelligence and robotics company, coined "Roze" in the U.S.
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Over the last few years, I've talked consistently about consolidation in the infrastructure part of the IT industry. Is this the start? (1/4) www.tweaktown.com/news/111017/...
NVIDIA is reportedly set to acquire a 'large PC company' the size of Dell or HP
According to a new rumor, NVIDIA is in the final stages of buying a large company like Dell or HP that will 'reshape the PC landscape.'.
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This is the combination of an effectively infinite supply of cheap cash and zero idea on what to do with it. www.tweaktown.com/news/111011/...
Meta is building a photorealistic AI model of Mark Zuckerberg that will keep watch on staff at all times
Meta is building a photorealistic AI clone of Zuckerberg trained on his voice and mannerisms to respond to employee queries in his place.
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Which one is the robot? www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...
Melania Trump shares the spotlight with a robot at an education and technology event
The robot accompanied the first lady to the White House East Room for the final day of a summit she had convened with counterparts from around the world through her Fostering the Future Together globa...
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Probably my most favourite arcade game of all time. I loved Robotron 2084 and was annoyed by it in equal measure. Really interested to see how AI could help with a game strategy. www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/a...
Former Microsoft dev trains AI to master Robotron: 2084
: Former Microsoft dev trains a model to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test
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As a man who has already ended eight wars, the current one shouldn't be hard for Trump to finish - after all, he started it. After massive tariffs on the UK, insulting our soldiers and saying he didn't need our ships, now he asks for help. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Trump says he's 'not happy' with UK after Starmer says it won't be drawn into wider Iran war
The US president repeats his call for other nations to assist in securing the Strait of Hormuz, after saying it would be
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Fairly sure Pete Hegseth is talking bollocks here. The General Belgrano was sunk by submarine torpedoes during the Falklands War in 1982.
Could there be anything more pointless and irrelevant than Your Party? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jeremy Corbyn set to become Your Party parliamentary leader
Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's supporters won 14 of the 24 seats on Your Party's central executive committee (CEC).
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I wonder if they can "reimagine" something that isn't a car crash of a platform? That would be good. Sadly I think they will just crowbar Copilot into the platform and make it even worse. www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/m...
Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint’ with added AI
: Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive
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Imagine what we could have done if that $80 billion had been put into something useful like fighting cancer or tackling world hunger. Instead it's just been wasted away. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind
The company asserts it will continue to make VR headsets, though.
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Just what my wife has been waiting for as her St Valentine's Day gift. And there was me thinking I would just get a dozen red roses and cook a slap-up meal. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-serv...
ExpressVPN slashes prices for Valentine’s Day – here’s how to save up to 81%
Find the ExpressVPN subscription tier that fits you this Valentine’s Day
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Currently watching the Western Digital Innovation Day livestream (unfortunately joining late). I think the CFO is onstage crowing about the remaining shares in Sandisk they own, which are currently worth about $5 billion.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul? X (formerly Twitter) gets merged into xAI to hide terrible finances. xAI now gets merged into SpaceX likely for the same reason. (1/4) www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/m...
Musk's xAI needs SpaceX deal for the money. Data centers in space are still a dream
In merging SpaceX with xAI, Elon Musk may be providing his artificial intelligence startup with a much-needed cash infusion.
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With the unpredictability of business with the USA, what does he expect? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says 'very dangerous' for UK to do business with China as Starmer lands in Shanghai
The US president's comments come as Sir Keir Starmer arrives in Shanghai on the third day of his visit to China.
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And yet the share price is way higher than justified by the falling revenue/profits or the maturity of the robot technology. Is it just that so many individuals bought into Tesla that they can't afford the haircut if they sell? arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01...
Tesla kills Models S and X to build humanoid robots instead
EVs that were once industry-leading have long since been left behind.
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Intel Corporation is the next company to prioritise the data centre over consumer. But what happens in the consumer space? Let's go back to 2024 when I discussed the rise of Arm on the desktop (www.architecting.it/blog/intel-v...). (1/9) www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/i...
Intel prioritizes Xeons over client chips to meet AI demand
: CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2
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Two Trump rants in two days. I need to find better TV to watch.
Taking some time to watch the Trump briefing. New words that he pronounces uniquely - Mercedes Benz and Somalia, who knew?
I've been messing about getting a Raspberry Pi 5 working with the new AI+ 2 HAT, which uses a Hailo 10 GPU. The results are much quicker than letting the CPU do the work (no surprise), but the output from the first LLM model I chose has been, ahem, less than accurate.
Just because you own an award or prize doesn’t imply that you earned it. Many people own old medals but never fought in the wars that awarded them. However, I also think that those people understand the difference….
