All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
Australia's international student caps are reshaping university finances. From London, Oliver Pemberton examines what a comparable UK debate reveals about the road ahead.
Oliver Pemberton Finnish tyre maker Nokian has unveiled a world-first winter tyre whose metal studs extend and retract automatically based on temperature — no buttons required.
Yuki Tamura Windows telemetry sparks fierce debate, but the evidence shows it's neither harmless nor sinister. Here's what Australian users actually need to know.
Darren Ong 
Gartner forecasts a 10.4% drop in global PC shipments in 2026, driven by a 130% surge in memory prices as AI data centres hoover up chip supply.
Sophia Vargas 
OpenAI is amending its Pentagon AI contract after CEO Sam Altman admitted the deal looked 'opportunistic and sloppy', sparking a public furore over surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Sophia Vargas MWC 2026 in Barcelona delivered a striking range of hardware: a phone that literally starts fires, a camera-wielding robot phone, and foldable displays that double as gaming rigs.
Priya Narayanan If your Linux machine takes an age to start up, a built-in diagnostic tool called systemd-analyze can identify the culprit in moments.
Mitchell Tan 
Zoo Fighter lets players battle Punch's bullies, but the real goal is redirecting the world's affection for the Japanese macaque toward primate welfare advocacy.
Tom Whitfield 
Electronic Arts is introducing a paid mod marketplace and new virtual currency for The Sims 4, raising questions about creator fairness and the game's future under new ownership.
Oliver Pemberton Google will move Chrome to a fortnightly release schedule from September, halving the current four-week cycle and raising the tempo of security patches and feature drops.
Darren Ong X has begun testing a standalone iOS messaging app, xChat, separating its direct messages from the main social feed in a direct challenge to WhatsApp and Signal.
Oliver Pemberton 
Nintendo's March 2026 Indie World showcase delivered three same-day releases, headlined by Blue Prince — one of last year's most acclaimed games.
Jake Nguyen 
Scott Pilgrim EX launches today, and IGN's verdict is clear: Tribute Games has built something genuinely good from the rubble of retro gaming nostalgia.
Daniel Kovac 
Heart of the Machine exits Early Access with a fully realised cyberpunk world where you play as a sentient AI. It's messy, brilliant, and uncomfortably topical.
Yuki Tamura New research demolishes the teenage hacker stereotype. The typical cybercriminal getting arrested is 35-44, running operations that look more like a business than a bedroom prank.
Sarah Cheng Xiaomi's camera chief says AI features got a lukewarm reception, so the company is doubling down on hardware. Samsung and Google are taking the opposite path.
Yuki Tamura 
SoulGame Studio's Minishoot' Adventures, a Zelda-inspired twin-stick bullet-hell shooter, is now available across all major consoles after wowing PC players in 2024.
Tom Whitfield 
A UK trial involving National Grid, Nvidia, and Emerald AI has shown AI data centres can cut power use in near real time, offering a potential answer to grid congestion worldwide.
Darren Ong 
A new Witcher 3 mod expands Kaer Morhen with content cut from the original game, restoring rooms, landmarks, and Easter eggs from across the franchise.
Tom Whitfield Australia is among seven Western governments seeking to shape 6G security standards before the technology is even standardised, with major industry players including Qualcomm and Ericsson lending support.
Darren Ong EA is launching an in-game marketplace and virtual currency called Moola for The Sims 4, with creators earning 30% of sales through a new Maker Program.
Mitchell Tan 
Apple has launched M5-powered MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models with faster AI performance and doubled storage, but prices have risen across the board.
Nina Papadopoulos 
A $1.3 million repair job on a 100-metre bridge in West Perth has stretched on for two years, closing a key lane into the CBD the whole time.
Yuki Tamura 
Dutch indie studio Total Mayhem Games has announced We Were Here Tomorrow, the fifth entry in its acclaimed co-op puzzle series, coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S this year.
Ella Sullivan 
Nvidia's N1X PC processor cores match AMD and Intel in benchmarks, but the critical question of x86 game emulation remains unanswered.
Zara Mitchell 
Bungie's Marathon drew big numbers in its Server Slam test, but the game's heavily stylised user interface has divided players and triggered a viral debate about art versus usability.
Priya Narayanan 
Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips bring a radical new dual-die design, six 'super cores', and up to 4x the AI compute of the previous generation to the MacBook Pro.
Darren Ong 
Nick Apostolides, voice of Leon Kennedy, argues AI can't replicate human performance — and that studios selling millions of copies can afford not to try.
Riley Fitzgerald AWS has backed Open VSX, the open-source VS Code extension registry, with new European cloud infrastructure, as fresh survey data shows VS Code losing ground among Rust developers.
Mitchell Tan More than half of global CIOs say AI adoption is moving too fast to manage, with governance gaps, skills shortages, and provider dependency risks mounting.
Mitchell Tan