Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
A University of Georgia professor argues the FCC's ban on imported routers actually worsens security by discouraging upgrades to newer equipment, while benefiting US manufacturers through lobbying rather than genuine defence improvements.
Grace Okonkwo 
Museums in Georgia and California are opening major exhibits to mark Apple's 50th anniversary, with rare artifacts, prototypes, and interactive displays celebrating five decades of innovation.
Andrew Marsh 
SXSW just wrapped its most ambitious redesign yet, forced to rebuild outside its former convention centre home. Founders and investors say the conference still delivers, but the experience has fundamentally changed.
Ella Sullivan 
Microsoft is unveiling a major Windows 11 overhaul addressing performance, bloat, and forced updates. But years of broken pledges have left users deeply sceptical of corporate talk.
Sophia Vargas 
An experiment at the University of Vienna has found the strongest evidence yet that quantum events can occur in superposition of temporal orders, violating classical notions of causality.
Helen Cartwright 
Asking AI to act like an expert software developer might seem like a smart move, but new research from USC shows it backfires. The study found that expert personas consistently damaged code quality and accuracy.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Waymo's attempt to improve its self-driving cars through direct collaboration with Austin schools has fallen short, with vehicles continuing to pass stopped buses weeks after software updates.
Grace Okonkwo 
Whoop has dominated the high-performance athlete market for a decade. Now founder Will Ahmed is racing to bring the wearable to mainstream consumers while battling tighter FDA scrutiny and new rivals.
Jake Nguyen 
Australian crypto platforms are facing a three-month window to secure licensing or risk enforcement action, as Parliament moves toward formally regulating digital asset trading for the first time.
Darren Ong 
Intel's upcoming Wildcat Lake processors could finally give the budget laptop market a genuine upgrade after years of stagnation, with benchmark results suggesting dramatic performance gains.
Jimmy O'Brien 
Intel's new budget-friendly CPUs arrived with strong reviews and competitive pricing, but retailers have already raised prices significantly above the manufacturer's recommended retail price.
Ella Sullivan 
Global OLED monitor shipments nearly doubled in 2025 to 2.7 million units, driven by improved durability, lower prices, and aggressive marketing that put the technology in reach of mainstream gamers.
Tom Whitfield 
X has suddenly locked X Pro, the dashboard formerly known as TweetDeck, behind its $40 premium tier, cutting off users who paid for cheaper access with no advance warning.
Patrick Donnelly 
AMD's new flagship CPU doubles down on cache for creator and gaming workloads, but its premium price point collides with memory shortages and a resurgent Intel on the budget end.
Tom Whitfield 
Microsoft is removing trust for ageing kernel drivers signed through a deprecated early-2000s program, forcing a reckoning for vendors with legacy hardware and raising hard questions about managing technical debt.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Meta plans to launch two new AI glasses designed specifically for prescription wearers, signalling a push to capture the vast population dependent on vision correction.
Mitchell Tan 
A Los Angeles jury has ruled that Meta and YouTube designed their platforms to be addictive and failed to warn users of the risks, awarding $6 million in damages and setting a precedent for thousands of similar cases.
Jake Nguyen 
The European Commission confirmed a cyberattack on its cloud infrastructure this week, exposing over 350GB of data and raising urgent questions about cloud security strategy across the EU.
James Callahan 
The European Commission issued preliminary findings that four major pornography platforms breached digital safety rules by allowing minors unrestricted access through ineffective age checks.
Helen Cartwright 
A botched software update at Lloyds Banking Group exposed transaction data for 447,000 customers across its mobile apps in March, raising questions about testing and governance in digital banking.
Helen Cartwright