Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Sony has unveiled two new soundbars for its Bravia Theatre lineup, with the Bar 7 introducing dedicated up-firing speakers for true 3D audio and the Bar 5 offering an affordable entry point with virtual surround sound.
Sophia Vargas 
Sony's new Bravia 3 II mid-range LED television will ship with premium features including the company's XR processor and support for Dolby Vision and 120Hz refresh rates. The TV will be available in sizes from 43 to 100 inches starting this spring.
Nadia Souris 
Sony's latest BRAVIA theater system lets you begin with basic audio and upgrade whenever you're ready. The modular approach includes seven products that work together, starting at under AU$900.
Sophia Vargas 
Researchers warn that billions of people sharing personal information with AI chatbots face significant privacy risks, with little public awareness of how their data is collected, stored, and used.
Priya Narayanan 
Samsung has released an 8TB variant of its 870 EVO SATA SSD in Europe, priced from €1,300, contradicting reports of the company's withdrawal from the SATA market.
Zara Mitchell 
Firefox 149 introduces a free built-in VPN with 50GB monthly data, while Opera GX arrives on Linux with resource limits and gaming-focused tools. The moves signal growing competition around privacy features and user control.
Sophia Vargas 
Your smartphone stores banking details, passwords, and personal photos. If hackers gain access, they can steal identities or monitor your activity in real time. Learn to spot the warning signs before serious damage occurs.
Oliver Pemberton 
Laptop prices are climbing 15–20% as AI data centres consume 70% of global memory chips. Australia is building chip manufacturing capability, but relief won't arrive until 2028.
Jake Nguyen 
As artificial intelligence infrastructure swallows semiconductor capacity, a new shortage has emerged: processors themselves. Intel and AMD now warn customers of lead times stretching half a year.
Jake Nguyen 
Intel has launched its long-awaited Big Battlemage GPUs, but not for gamers. The Arc Pro B70 and B65 target AI workloads and content creation, signalling a strategic pivot forced by global supply constraints.
Sophia Vargas 
NASA's shift away from its lunar Gateway space station to focus on a moon base is bold strategy, but the agency has not yet explained how astronauts will get to and from the lunar surface.
Sophia Vargas 
X has suspended plans to overhaul its creator revenue-sharing system after international creators warned the changes would unfairly penalise global audiences.
Victoria Crawford 
Google Research has published TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that shrinks the memory footprint of large language models by at least 6x while boosting inference speed up to 8x on high-end GPUs. The catch: understanding why this matters requires looking past the headline numbers.
Jake Nguyen 
MSI's latest power supplies include a buzzer and software alerts to warn users of dangerous power connector failures. But the feature highlights a design flaw that should have been caught years ago.
Zara Mitchell 
JetBrains is replacing collaborative coding tools with infrastructure for managing AI agents, signalling how rapidly the software development landscape is shifting toward autonomous systems.
Andrew Marsh 
Intel has released its Xeon 600 workstation processors and announced expanded vPro support for Panther Lake business chips, both featuring AI acceleration capabilities and promising significant performance gains over previous generations.
Zara Mitchell 
Dell's redesigned Pro laptop line offers clearer choices and meaningful hardware improvements, though buyers will need to decide what they actually need.
Oliver Pemberton 
Sift Stack, founded by ex-SpaceX engineers Karthik Gollapudi and Austin Spiegel, is helping advanced manufacturers solve a problem they didn't know they had: managing millions of sensor data streams without breaking the bank.
Jake Nguyen 
Dell's new 2026 business laptops bring thinner designs and improved thermal performance to its Pro lineup, but the simplified naming scheme still conceals a multi-tiered product structure that may continue to confuse buyers.
Zara Mitchell Three simultaneous product announcements on 25 March reveal a unified crisis: AI data centre demand is monopolising semiconductor capacity worldwide, triggering price increases of 10-20% across every consumer electronics category.
Zara Mitchell