Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Niantic Spatial has partnered with Coco Robotics to power delivery robots across US and European cities using 30 billion images collected from Pokémon Go players. The partnership reveals complex questions about data ownership and consent in the age of AI.
Yuki Tamura 
Intel has published security patches for more than 30 vulnerabilities affecting its processors and reference platforms. The fixes mitigate critical flaws, though exploitation requires local device access.
Sophia Vargas 
ServiceNow's chief executive has warned that artificial intelligence could push graduate unemployment from its current 5.7 per cent to the mid-30s within two years as AI agents take over routine early-career work.
Oliver Pemberton 
iFixit's teardown of Apple's new MacBook Neo reveals the company's most repairable laptop since 2012, with screwed-in batteries, modular keyboards, and accessible components—a departure from years of sealed-hardware design.
Tom Whitfield 
Eon Systems' digital fly demonstration sparked wild speculation online, but the reality reveals more about our AI anxieties than it does about the state of brain emulation.
Nina Papadopoulos 
A critical security flaw in the UK's official corporate register left director data exposed to potential fraud. The vulnerability was introduced during system upgrades last October.
Darren Ong 
California's new Digital Age Assurance Act mandates OS-level age verification starting 2027, but faces implementation chaos and legal vulnerability after Texas's similar law was blocked.
Zara Mitchell 
The FBI's Seattle Division is seeking victims of a coordinated malware attack through Steam games between May 2024 and January 2026.
Tom Whitfield 
STMicroelectronics plans to deploy more than 100 humanoid robots across its older semiconductor plants, aiming to boost efficiency and preserve jobs in Europe as Chinese competition intensifies.
Oliver Pemberton 
Microsoft has traced a critical bug that blocks access to the system drive on certain Samsung computers to a flaw in the Galaxy Connect app, not Windows updates.
Helen Cartwright 
The UK is investing in an AI-driven supercomputer designed to model complex fusion physics, seeking to compress decades of research into a commercial-viable timeline by the 2040s.
Priya Narayanan 
Zephyr has cancelled its single-fan RTX 4070 Ti Super due to skyrocketing VRAM prices driven by AI demand. The pivot reveals how smaller GPU makers struggle to compete when memory costs explode.
Jake Nguyen 
OpenAI has indefinitely delayed ChatGPT's adult mode feature, citing technical challenges with age verification and higher priorities, amid growing regulatory scrutiny of AI chatbot safety.
Nadia Souris 
With both starting at $599, Apple's new MacBook Neo and Mac Mini M4 appear to compete directly. In reality, they serve fundamentally different users with distinct trade-offs.
Tom Whitfield 
MSI plans to raise gaming product prices by 15-30% in 2026 as AI-driven memory shortages force manufacturers to abandon budget segments and focus on premium products.
Mitchell Tan 
A council's attempt to modernise its HR and payroll systems has exploded from a £2.6m project to £41m, revealing the systemic failures that plague government IT.
Riley Fitzgerald 
West Sussex County Council has delayed its Oracle Fusion implementation to October 2026, after costs swelled to £41 million. The project, originally budgeted at £2.6 million in 2019, exemplifies broader problems with enterprise software migrations in UK local government.
Yuki Tamura 
Unencrypted DNS can expose your browsing habits to network operators and ISPs. Here's how to enable private DNS on your iPhone and why it matters.
Oliver Pemberton 
Ten innovators from six countries gathered at Georgia Tech this weekend to present instruments that blur the line between science experiment and musical masterpiece, competing for $10,000 in prize money.
Sophia Vargas 
Jefferson Nguyen sought simple advice on talking to women but discovered something far darker online. His story illustrates how easily young men fall into extremist content promoting harmful views of gender.
Aisha Khoury