Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
On 1 March 1966, the Soviet Venera 3 became the first human-made object to strike another planet's surface. Despite losing communications before it could collect data, the mission set a foundation for all future planetary exploration.
Priya Narayanan 
DJI has agreed to pay $30,000 to the software engineer who exposed security flaws affecting 7,000 robot vacuums worldwide. However, critics warn additional vulnerabilities remain unresolved.
Zara Mitchell 
OpenAI and Oracle have abandoned an expansion of their flagship Texas data centre facility, signalling the first visible crack in the tech industry's unprecedented AI infrastructure buildout.
Darren Ong 
Research from Anthropic challenges apocalyptic predictions about AI job losses, finding no significant rise in unemployment for workers in exposed roles since late 2022, though entry-level hiring has slowed.
Samantha Blake 
Deveillance's Spectre I has gone viral as a solution to always-on AI wearables, but security researchers question whether ultrasonic jamming will work as advertised.
James Callahan 
Valve has quietly walked back its commitment to launch the Steam Machine in 2026, citing AI data centres hoovering up global memory supplies. The machine that was meant to shake up living room gaming now faces pricing pressures that could undo its market appeal.
Tom Whitfield 
Anthropic's AI has uncovered 22 security vulnerabilities in Firefox in just two weeks, yet Mozilla engineers reveal a far bigger problem: faulty computer hardware is responsible for roughly 10 per cent of all browser crashes.
Sophia Vargas 
Grammarly's new Expert Review feature generates writing feedback under the names of real scholars, including some who have died. Critics say the company is using identities and reputations without consent.
Zara Mitchell 
The promise of responsible AI development is colliding with hard commercial realities as companies prioritise speed and competitiveness over safety measures.
James Callahan 
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated mobile spyware campaign impersonating Israel's emergency alert system, stealing location data and personal communications from Android users.
Zara Mitchell 
Samsung is preparing lightweight AI-powered smart glasses designed to work closely with Galaxy phones, marking a strategic shift from expensive headsets toward affordable, wearable daily accessories.
Yuki Tamura 
As Australian firms race to adopt artificial intelligence, savvy business leaders are treating governance not as a drag on progress but as essential infrastructure for sustainable innovation.
Priya Narayanan 
Researchers testing agent-to-agent interactions have uncovered catastrophic system failures. The danger lies not in rogue AI, but in coordination failures when systems operate without oversight.
James Callahan 
A Logitech representative predicts that half of gaming mice will adopt new inductive click technology within three years, signalling a potential market shift away from mechanical switches.
Sarah Cheng 
Norway's consumer council has released a scathing 100-page report on 'enshittification'—the deliberate degradation of digital services. It includes comedy sketches, policy recommendations, and a campaign backed by 70+ international organisations.
Meg Hadley 
Cloudflare's inaugural 2026 threat report shows attackers exploiting identity and credentials at industrialised scale, raising fundamental questions about how organisations approach cybersecurity strategy.
Sophia Vargas 
Cisco has confirmed fresh vulnerabilities in its Catalyst SD-WAN Manager software are being actively exploited. The latest flaws compound a crisis that began weeks earlier with a critical zero-day affecting thousands of organisations.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Mobile World Congress 2026 marked a shift from annual spec bumps to genuine product reimagining. Foldable devices, modular laptops, and new network infrastructure dominated Barcelona; Australia's adoption of these innovations remains uncertain.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Nvidia controls 94% of the graphics card market while AMD collapses to 5%, yet gamers face a grim outlook: falling sales, rising prices, and a projected 10% market contraction in 2026.
Sophia Vargas 
Apple has quietly removed the Mac Studio's maximum 512GB memory configuration as a global shortage of high-bandwidth memory forces even the world's largest tech companies to ration capacity.
Zara Mitchell