MWC 2026: When Smartphones Stop Being Just Phones
Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona has opened with a rush of announcements from Xiaomi, Honor, and others, revealing an industry racing well beyond the humble smartphone.
Daniel Kovac Article Archive
All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
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Daniel Kovac Starlink Mini's Power Problem Has a Practical Fix for Remote Users
The Stargear 3-in-1 cable offers Starlink Mini users USB-C, DC, and vehicle power in a single cord, addressing persistent off-grid power challenges.
Mitchell Tan Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra Arrives: A Two-Year Upgrade Worth Every Cent?
Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S26 Ultra, packing a new privacy display, a faster Snapdragon chip, and camera upgrades. But for S24 Ultra owners in Australia, the calculus is complicated.
Mitchell Tan China's Spreadsheet Spies: How UNC2814 Hid in Plain Sight Across 42 Nations
Google has dismantled a vast Chinese cyber-espionage network that used Google Sheets as a covert spy channel, hitting 53 organisations in 42 countries — with serious implications for Australia.
Aisha Khoury AI Models Chose Nuclear Strikes in 95% of Simulated War Games
A landmark wargaming study found ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini reached for nuclear weapons in 95% of simulated crises, raising urgent questions about AI in military decision-making.
Zara Mitchell Your Pseudonym Is Not Protecting You. AI Just Proved It.
Researchers have shown that AI can strip away online anonymity at industrial scale and negligible cost, a finding that challenges the foundations of digital privacy.
Daniel Kovac Salesforce Posts $11.2bn Quarter but Investors Fret Over AI Transition
Salesforce delivered its fastest quarterly growth in two years, but a colourful earnings call and softer-than-expected forward metrics sent shares lower after hours.
Darren Ong Nvidia Posts $120bn Profit While China Sits Empty-Handed
Nvidia earned $120bn in profit for fiscal 2026 and is forecasting $78bn in Q1 revenue — without counting a single dollar from China.
Sarah Cheng Samsung's Galaxy S26 Arrives With Price Hikes and a Privacy Bet
Samsung's Galaxy S26 series lands in Australia on 11 March with price rises of up to 10%, a world-first built-in Privacy Display, and a renewed AI push.
Mitchell Tan Samsung's $2,199 Galaxy S26 Ultra Faces a Surprisingly Stiff Test from Google
Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra hits Australian shelves on March 11 at $2,199, but Google's Pixel 10 Pro XL is putting up a serious fight on nearly every front.
Mitchell Tan AMD Backs Nutanix in $250M Bet to Break Nvidia's AI Stranglehold
AMD has committed up to $250 million to cloud infrastructure firm Nutanix, buying stock and funding joint AI engineering work as Nvidia's grip on enterprise compute faces its most serious challenge yet.
Jimmy O'Brien AI Speed Is Outpacing Software Security, Major Report Warns
Four in five organisations now carry unresolved security debt, up from three in four a year ago, as AI-driven development outpaces teams' ability to fix known flaws.
Nadia Souris Anthropic's Retired AI Has a Blog. You Should Be Sceptical.
Anthropic has given its retired Claude Opus 3 model a Substack blog, dressing up a corporate marketing exercise in the language of digital consciousness and AI welfare.
Nina Papadopoulos The AI in Your Drive-Through Is Counting Your 'Please'
Burger King is rolling out an AI assistant that monitors employee friendliness at the drive-through. Supporters call it coaching; critics see something more concerning.
Ella Sullivan The IT Help Desk Bot That Won't Make Stuff Up
ServiceNow claims its Autonomous Workforce AI agent is resolving 90% of employee IT tickets, with one key selling point: it escalates rather than hallucinates.
Andrew Marsh Japan's Monaka Chip Signals a New Era in 3D Silicon
Fujitsu's 144-core Monaka CPU will use Broadcom's 3.5D chip-stacking technology, with first samples shipped and a commercial launch slated for 2027.
Yuki Tamura Silicon Valley's Open Wallet for Open Source: A $100m Endowment Bet
The Open Source Endowment has launched with $750,000 in seed funding and an audacious $100m target, aiming to solve the chronic under-funding of software that the world's tech industry runs on.
Darren Ong Block axes 4,000 jobs citing AI, and investors cheer
Block, owner of Square and Afterpay, is cutting 40% of its workforce — around 4,000 people — blaming AI tools. Its stock jumped 23% on the news.
Sarah Cheng GCHQ Puts a Price on Saving Britain: £130,000 a Year
GCHQ is recruiting a chief information security officer at up to £130,000, but critics question whether the pay can compete with private sector rivals.
James Callahan Moon's Magnetic Mystery Solved: It Was a Titanium Blip, Not a Billion-Year Shield
A new Oxford study in Nature Geoscience finds the Moon's strong magnetic field lasted at most 5,000 years, not the half-billion years previously assumed.
Grace Okonkwo Debian 14 Plans to Axe GTK2, Leaving 139 Apps in Limbo
Debian's GNOME team is pushing to remove the GTK2 toolkit from the forthcoming Debian 14 release, threatening scores of apps. An Ardour audio workstation fork may offer a lifeline.
Mitchell Tan AI's Hunger for Memory Is About to Make Your Next Device a Luxury Item
Analyst firm Gartner predicts a 130% surge in memory prices by year's end, wiping out sub-$500 PCs and squeezing smartphone buyers into the second-hand market.
Fatima Al-Rashid Australia Sounded the Alarm on a Global Cisco Threat. Now Everyone's Scrambling.
Australia's cyber spy agency discovered a critical Cisco SD-WAN flaw being exploited since 2023, prompting a rare joint warning from all Five Eyes intelligence partners.
Oliver Pemberton Cybercrime gang recruits female voices to fool IT helpdesks
The cybercrime collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is recruiting women as telephone social engineers, paying up to $1,000 per call to bypass helpdesk security training.
Oliver Pemberton Microsoft Plans to Auto-Open Copilot Every Time You Click an Outlook Link
Microsoft is set to auto-launch its Copilot AI pane in Edge whenever users click Outlook links, sparking privacy and enterprise security concerns ahead of a May 2026 rollout.
Patrick Donnelly Tech Giants Set to Spend $710B on AI Infrastructure in 2026, Dwarfing Ireland's GDP
The world's eight biggest cloud operators will collectively outspend Ireland's entire GDP on AI infrastructure in 2026, signalling both opportunity and risk for Australian businesses.
Mitchell Tan AI Still Can't Add Up: New Tests Reveal Persistent Math Failures in Top Models
New ORCA benchmark results show most major AI models are getting marginally better at everyday maths, though the top performer, Gemini 3 Flash, still scores less than 73 per cent.
Priya Narayanan NASA's Own Safety Watchdog Says Moon Landing Plan Is Too Risky
NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel has classified Artemis III as high risk, urging the agency to adopt a more stepwise approach before attempting a crewed lunar landing.
James Callahan Blacklisted: Anthropic Defies Pentagon Over AI Weapons Guardrails
Anthropic has been designated a national security supply chain risk after refusing to lift AI guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, raising urgent questions for Australian firms.
Mitchell Tan ASUS and Dell Join Microsoft's Cloud PC Push — But Is Subscription Computing Ready for Business?
ASUS and Dell are building dedicated Windows 365 cloud PC devices, joining Microsoft in a bet that the subscription desktop could reshape enterprise computing.
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