Why Furby Still Matters: A Toy That Changed How We Think About AI
A generation of children formed attachments to furry robots that sparked national security fears and fundamentally changed expectations around interactive technology.
Mitchell Tan Technology
Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Mitchell Tan 
Seagate's New FireCuda X1070 SSD Leaks Ahead of Official Launch
Seagate's unreleased FireCuda X1070 NVMe SSD appeared on Amazon and Best Buy listings this week, revealing specs and a $829.99 price tag before pages went offline.
Yuki Tamura 
AI agents lower barriers for cybercriminals, Microsoft warns
Cybercriminals are using AI agents to automate routine cyberattack tasks, from surveillance to infrastructure setup. Microsoft threat intelligence reveals North Korea's Coral Sleet is already deploying these capabilities at scale.
Nadia Souris 
RAM errors pose hidden stability risk across all computers
Memory bit flips cause up to 15% of Firefox crashes, according to Mozilla analysis of nearly 470,000 crash reports. The finding highlights a hardware reliability issue affecting all devices.
Sophia Vargas 
Biological Computing Comes of Age: Why Cortical Labs' Doom Demo Matters
An Australian startup has demonstrated cultured neurons running a video game on a silicon chip. The breakthrough raises serious questions about the future of energy-efficient computing and drug research.
Darren Ong 
The $40 smartphone dream faces reality check as memory costs soar
A coalition of telecom operators and device makers is working to bring $40 smartphones to market across six African countries, aiming to connect 20 million people. Rising memory costs now threaten the viability of the price target.
Grace Okonkwo 
NASA's asteroid experiment proves tiny shifts can work as planetary shields
NASA's DART spacecraft did more than nudge a single asteroid. New analysis reveals it altered the trajectory of a whole binary system around the sun, marking a historic moment in planetary defence technology.
Oliver Pemberton 
OpenAI delays adult mode for ChatGPT as core features take priority
OpenAI has again postponed ChatGPT's adult mode, now with no firm launch date. The company is prioritising intelligence upgrades and personalisation over age-gated adult content.
Tom Whitfield 
PS5 Turned Into Linux Gaming PC: What Sony's Hardware Says About Digital Freedom
A security engineer has successfully ported Linux to a PS5, transforming it into a Steam gaming machine. The feat raises pressing questions about hardware control and corporate restrictions on devices consumers own.
Jake Nguyen 
TheOdd1sOut's Sudden Team Restructure Exposes Precarity of Creator Economy Work
An abrupt restructuring at TheOdd1sOut has left animation team members without warning. The incident highlights the vulnerability of freelance workers in the creator economy.
Oliver Pemberton 
When Good Intentions Expose Bad Security: The DJI Romo Vulnerability Story
Sammy Azdoufal was only trying to play with his DJI Romo using a PS5 controller. Instead, he discovered a security flaw that exposed 7,000 homes across 24 countries to potential surveillance.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Motorola's Razr Fold takes on Samsung with bold foldable strategy
Motorola's first book-style foldable, unveiled at MWC 2026, challenges Samsung's dominance with superior brightness, battery capacity, and camera performance at a lower price point.
Yuki Tamura 
When AI Agents Go Wrong: The Case for Guardrails in Development
Over 2.5 years of data disappeared when a developer entrusted an AI agent with unsupervised access to production infrastructure. The incident highlights a tension between innovation and basic risk management.
Oliver Pemberton 
Sony WH-1000XM6: Heavyweight Headphones With Real Tradeoffs
The Sony WH-1000XM6 delivers excellent noise cancellation and sound quality, yet higher prices and incremental gains over the previous generation mean buyers should think carefully before upgrading.
Zara Mitchell 
The Hard Maths Behind AI Token Costs: Why Simple Wins Are Disappearing
The economics of AI inference are deceptively simple on the surface: generate tokens efficiently and sell them for profit. But scaling proves brutally complex, forcing companies to choose between serving users fast or serving them cheap.
Zara Mitchell 
Nvidia's Chip Scarcity Reveals Hard Truths About Market Power
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has openly embraced supply constraints as beneficial to the company, arguing that scarcity forces customers to choose the best product. The admission raises uncomfortable questions about market power in the AI boom.
Sophia Vargas 
Apple's M5 Max beats server chips in tests, but benchmarks tell only part of the story
Apple's M5 Max processor scored 29,233 in multi-core Geekbench tests, surpassing the 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX. However, industry experts caution that synthetic benchmarks do not fully reflect actual performance in professional applications.
Zara Mitchell 
The Ad-Tech Surveillance Loophole: How US Borders Agency Tracked Phones
US Customs and Border Protection used online advertising data to track phone locations during a 2019-2021 pilot programme, according to internal documents obtained by journalists. The practice highlights a legal gap in US privacy law.
Sophia Vargas 
AMD's 1 GHz chip milestone: How competition drives innovation
On 6 March 2000, AMD shipped its 1 GHz Athlon processor, entering the gigahertz era two days ahead of Intel and proving that competitive markets reward substance over marketing.
Yuki Tamura 
Apple's Phantom Booth: Why the Industry's Most Influential Player Didn't Need to Show Up
Apple wasn't exhibiting at MWC 2026, yet its design DNA appeared everywhere. From foldable form factors to camera control innovations, the absentee set the standard.
Mitchell Tan