Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
BYD's ultra-fast charging technology can recharge an electric vehicle in minutes, but regulatory barriers and standards fragmentation will keep this innovation confined to China for years.
Priya Narayanan 
The Free Software Foundation Europe lost access to donation systems from more than 450 supporters after its payment provider Nexi demanded access to sensitive data and terminated the contract without notice.
Sophia Vargas 
Amazon is building a new smartphone called Transformer amid a collapsing market and entrenched competition. Industry experts warn the odds are stacked against it.
Sarah Cheng 
A prominent cryptographer has been banned from Rust security channels after clashing with maintainers over the publication of bug reports, raising questions about transparency and due process in open source security governance.
Mitchell Tan 
Tech companies are building profitable products by copying professional expertise without permission, sparking legal action and raising hard questions about consent and fair use in AI development.
Andrew Marsh 
Tumblr banned dozens of accounts this week through an automated moderation system that users claim disproportionately targeted trans women. The company has disabled the system and apologised, but the incident reopens questions about the platform's ability to manage algorithmic bias.
Daniel Kovac 
Pinterest's CEO has become one of the first major tech leaders to publicly support age restrictions on social media, pointing to Australia's new law as a model for global regulation.
Andrew Marsh 
Nvidia's CEO says critics misunderstand DLSS 5's technical architecture. But the company's own marketing staff appear to have confirmed the core criticism: it's essentially an AI filter applied to a 2D image.
Tom Whitfield 
Microsoft is pivoting Windows 11 away from aggressive AI integration and feature additions toward fixing core performance, reliability, and usability problems that have eroded user trust.
Darren Ong 
Microsoft is reversing its controversial update strategy, allowing users to pause updates indefinitely and skip them during setup. The shift reflects growing backlash over forced restarts and AI features.
Tom Whitfield 
Microsoft has acknowledged years of Windows 11 criticism and is restoring core features like movable taskbars while tackling performance issues that have eroded user trust.
Darren Ong 
Salesforce has brought on the team behind AI calendar app Clockwise, but will shut down the product itself on March 27, 2026. It is a classic acqui-hire targeting talent over technology.
Daniel Kovac 
AMD has released FSR 4.1 upscaling and Ray Regeneration 1.1 for its RX 9000-series graphics cards, delivering sharper visuals and improved ray-traced image quality through the latest Adrenalin driver.
Kate Morrison 
After five years of user frustration, Microsoft is bringing back the ability to move and resize the Windows 11 taskbar, acknowledging a controversial design choice that eliminated a feature users had relied on since the 1990s.
Helen Cartwright 
SoftBank is building one of the world's largest AI data centres in Ohio, backed by a $33 billion natural gas power plant. The project reveals the geopolitical stakes of AI infrastructure.
Priya Narayanan 
Technical analysis suggests DLSS 5 may be making educated guesses about lighting and materials rather than accessing the game engine's actual data, undermining Nvidia's claims about artistic control.
Nadia Souris 
New driver updates for Windows Subsystem for Linux and WINE bring better GPU support for running applications across different operating systems, while a fresh OpenGL extension tackles decades-old memory addressing problems.
Mitchell Tan 
NASA is reportedly exploring using SpaceX's Starship to ferry the Orion capsule to the Moon starting after Artemis V, a move that would dramatically reduce the role of Boeing's Space Launch System and reshape the agency's return to the lunar surface.
Tom Whitfield 
Blue Origin has filed for approval to launch 51,600 satellites for orbital data centres, but experts warn the economics, technology, and regulatory framework remain unproven.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Chinese scientists have developed a rare-earth alloy that enables ultra-cold cooling without helium-3, potentially giving Beijing a significant advantage in the quantum computing race with serious implications for Australian national security.
Zara Mitchell