Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Microsoft's MOSAIC technology replaces expensive lasers with MicroLEDs to cut datacenter cable energy use by roughly 50%. The system is expected to enter commercial production with industry partners by late 2027.
Zara Mitchell 
AI coding assistants have moved beyond autocomplete to autonomous agents that can build entire applications from natural language prompts, fundamentally changing the economics and accessibility of software development.
Mitchell Tan 
Tumblr users are pushing back hard against a fundamental redesign of the platform's reblog system, arguing the changes destroy what makes the network distinct.
Oliver Pemberton 
Samsung's redesigned Galaxy Buds 4 Pro pack significantly better audio hardware, but their best features remain locked exclusively to Galaxy phones.
Oliver Pemberton 
Nvidia unveiled BlueField-4 STX at GTC 2026, a modular storage architecture designed to solve data access bottlenecks limiting agentic AI inference performance.
Zara Mitchell 
Serebii webmaster Joe Merrick says a mobile app called Pokopedia has lifted his game guides for profit, including reproducing the same errors he initially made while building his database.
Darren Ong 
Oracle's Java 26 release brings Project Detroit, a significant shift in how the JVM handles JavaScript and Python interop. Instead of reimplementing these languages from scratch, it embeds their native runtimes—a pragmatic pivot after past failures.
Mitchell Tan 
Oppo has launched the Find N6 foldable across Asia and Australia from March 20, but snubbed Europe and the US entirely. The move signals a strategic pivot toward the region's premium phone market.
Mitchell Tan 
Aqara has released the G350, the world's first Matter-certified indoor security camera. While it signals progress toward open smart home standards, platform inconsistencies highlight how fragmentation persists despite the promise of unified control.
Zara Mitchell 
Microsoft has released two emergency hotpatches in three days for Windows 11, prompting enterprise administrators to question the stability of recent Windows releases and the risks of the company's push to make rebootless updates the default.
Yuki Tamura 
Poco's new X8 Pro Max brings an 8,500mAh battery, MediaTek Dimensity 9500s chip, and subtle RGB lighting—proving that value phones can avoid excessive gimmickry.
Jake Nguyen 
With manufacturers now committing to longer software support and repair legislation gaining ground, keeping a smartphone for five to seven years is realistic. Simple maintenance tips can extend device life and reduce e-waste.
Tom Whitfield 
Samsung is discontinuing its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone just three months after launch, citing production costs that make the device impossible to sell profitably.
Zara Mitchell 
Two major filesystem developments signal Linux's refusal to be locked out of modern storage formats. Fresh releases from bcachefs and KDE Linux promise better access to Apple's APFS and more reliable data management.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Nvidia has demonstrated the world's first AI GPU with 1TB of HBM4E memory. The architecture points to where the industry is headed, but also reveals the supply constraints that will define the coming years.
Yuki Tamura 
A maker has designed an open-source USB bridge that finally allows access to data on Toshiba's world-record 0.85-inch hard drives from 2004, devices long abandoned due to flash memory's rise.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Sears' AI chatbot exposed customer phone calls, text messages and personal contact details to anyone on the internet, raising phishing and fraud risks.
Helen Cartwright 
Switzerland has quietly built a replacement for the internet's fundamental routing protocol, addressing vulnerabilities that have plagued global networks since the 1980s. Yet despite working solutions in production use, adoption remains glacial.
Zara Mitchell 
Scientists have found all five chemical building blocks of DNA and RNA in samples from asteroid Ryugu, suggesting life's ingredients were widespread across the early solar system.
Bruce Mackinnon 
The BBC's plan to save money by closing radio and TV services and pushing audiences online has failed spectacularly, with digital reach actually falling 11 per cent since 2021.
Tom Whitfield