Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Africa's regional internet registry faces a coordinated legal assault that threatens its core functions. After two years rebuilding, AFRINIC warns members it cannot restore normal operations while courts remain deadlocked.
James Callahan 
In a single day, three of the world's largest digital platforms tightened their grip on consumer wallets, revealing a coordinated shift toward extracting more revenue from users with nowhere else to go.
Oliver Pemberton 
At GDC 2026, Nvidia revealed plans for path tracing performance improvements of up to 1 million times faster than current generation, with the company banking on AI and algorithmic advances to replace traditional silicon scaling.
Sarah Cheng 
Garry Newman says the game development industry benefits from AI but cautions against letting it erode human problem-solving ability, as his studio prepares its game-creation platform for launch.
Tom Whitfield 
A new credential-stealing campaign shows why free VPN services are fundamentally incompatible with real privacy protection. Here's what you need to know.
Andrew Marsh 
A cybercriminal group called Storm-2561 is using fake VPN clients from major vendors to steal corporate credentials, exploiting search engine results to direct victims to malicious installers.
Zara Mitchell 
Amazon Prime Video is removing 4K streaming access from its standard service and locking it behind a new $5-per-month Ultra tier, marking the latest price increase for the increasingly fragmented service.
Kate Morrison 
Parallels Desktop works on the $599 MacBook Neo, but only for occasional Windows use. Heavy workloads will struggle with 8GB RAM and fanless cooling.
Darren Ong 
Astrophysicists have uncovered a mechanism involving frame-dragging that explains why superluminous supernovae flicker in ways standard models cannot account for.
Priya Narayanan 
Peacock is launching Law & Order: Clue Hunter and other mobile games directly on its platform this spring, joining the streaming wars by letting players stay in-app rather than downloading separate apps.
Jake Nguyen 
Complete erasure from the internet isn't realistic, but significant reduction is achievable. Here are the proven methods to limit your digital footprint and protect your privacy.
Priya Narayanan 
The Renpho Lynx proves you don't need to pay monthly subscriptions or premium prices for solid sleep and fitness tracking. Here's what a week of testing revealed.
Sophia Vargas 
When Nvidia released the GeForce 3 in February 2001, few realised the modest graphics card would reshape computing's future. CEO Jensen Huang now reflects on how that bet on programmability changed everything.
Helen Cartwright 
Cybercriminals are exploiting users' trust in CAPTCHA security checks to distribute malware, with detections surging dramatically in 2025. Here's how to spot the fakes before it's too late.
Oliver Pemberton 
NBCUniversal's Peacock is overhauling its mobile experience with AI-powered video, vertical live sports, and casual gaming in a bid to compete with TikTok and revitalise subscriber growth.
Jake Nguyen 
Rising RAM prices are forcing budget-conscious Linux users to be creative. Two kernel features offer compression-based solutions, but each suits different needs.
Oliver Pemberton 
Startup founders using Microsoft Azure credits to test Anthropic's Claude are discovering expensive surprises when marketplace charges bypass their sponsorship credits entirely.
Zara Mitchell 
Google's AI search features increasingly cite the company's own services like YouTube and Google Search, accounting for up to 17% of all citations—more than the next six external domains combined.
Sophia Vargas 
A newly formed Russian company has claimed to develop 16 and 32-core processors, but technical analysis suggests they are Chinese-made Loongson chips relabelled with Cyrillic branding to circumvent Western sanctions.
Mitchell Tan 
New security tools are emerging to constrain autonomous AI agents while they operate at scale. The tension between speed and safety is reshaping how developers approach autonomous systems.
Fatima Al-Rashid