Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
A tiny British-designed robot is set to revolutionise how scientists inspect the Large Hadron Collider, cutting costs and downtime while showcasing UK engineering expertise at the frontiers of physics research.
Nadia Souris 
Commercial spyware makers have surpassed state-sponsored groups as the primary exploiters of zero-day vulnerabilities, marking a watershed moment in the cybersecurity landscape and raising hard questions about government oversight.
Tom Whitfield 
Broadcom claims AI companies cannot build their own chips at scale, pointing to massive custom orders from Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic. But as billions flow toward in-house silicon development, the company's confidence may mask deeper anxieties.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Microsoft is bringing a simpler approach to keyboard-accessible websites to early testing, addressing a technical burden that's left most sites falling short of accessibility standards.
Andrew Marsh 
Nvidia's latest driver hotfix highlights a troubling pattern of instability affecting its newest graphics cards, raising questions about where the company's priorities really lie.
Tom Whitfield 
NASA's new administrator is winning praise for radical changes to the lunar programme, trading speed for reliability. But real questions remain about funding and long-term vision.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
OpenAI has committed to strengthening its safety protocols and including Canadian experts in threat assessment, following a mass shooting in British Columbia where the shooter had flagged interactions with ChatGPT.
Priya Narayanan 
Amazon.com experienced a significant outage on 5 March, disrupting checkout and pricing for thousands of shoppers before the company identified and resolved a software code deployment issue.
Mitchell Tan 
Arc Raiders players who linked their Discord accounts were unknowingly having their private messages logged to their computers. A hotfix has now resolved the issue.
Aisha Khoury 
Sources reveal the Pentagon experimented with OpenAI's models through Microsoft's cloud platform while OpenAI's military prohibition remained official policy, exposing gaps in how tech policies function across enterprise partnerships.
Mitchell Tan 
Amazon went offline for thousands of customers on Thursday afternoon in what the company later attributed to a software deployment error. The outage lasted roughly five hours, preventing shoppers from viewing prices and completing purchases across multiple platforms.
James Callahan 
A YouTuber's 6,000-hour OLED monitor torture test shows real burn-in issues emerging. But the truth is more nuanced than the headlines suggest.
Jake Nguyen 
Google's discovery of Coruna, a powerful iPhone exploit kit, has triggered speculation about its origins. Kaspersky now pushes back against claims it came from US intelligence.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Gartner research reveals that buying AI technology is only half the battle. Success depends on HR leadership, clear communication from managers, and addressing employee concerns before they become resistance.
Oliver Pemberton 
OpenAI has launched its Codex desktop app for Windows, offering developers a native alternative to autocomplete-based coding tools and signalling intensifying competition in the AI-assisted software development market.
Nadia Souris 
A newly launched European office suite claims to offer true data sovereignty, yet analysis reveals it relies on existing open-source components. What this means for choice and competition.
Aisha Khoury 
Australian employers are increasingly using AI to screen resumes before human eyes see them. Job seekers who understand these systems have a real edge.
Zara Mitchell 
TikTok has told the BBC it will not introduce end-to-end encryption for direct messages, arguing the technology makes users less safe. The decision sets it apart from WhatsApp, iMessage, and Messenger.
Darren Ong 
Malwarebytes has flagged a fake Google Account security page that deploys one of the most capable browser-based surveillance toolkits ever documented in the wild.
Nadia Souris 
Nvidia's 595.71 GPU driver is reportedly capping voltages on RTX 40 and 50 series cards, costing some users hundreds of megahertz in overclocking performance.
Helen Cartwright