Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
An 80-year-old spy technique once codenamed TEMPEST by the NSA may still threaten civilian devices. US lawmakers want the Government Accountability Office to find out how bad the risk really is.
Sarah Cheng 
MWC 2026 closed in Barcelona with Lenovo, Honor, and Xiaomi unveiling hardware that blurs the line between phone, laptop, and robot.
Sophia Vargas 
The US Supreme Court has declined to rule on whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted, leaving the law clear in one direction: only humans need apply.
Daniel Kovac 
Micron has begun shipping samples of the world's first 256GB SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory module, a milestone that could reshape AI server economics.
Oliver Pemberton Businesses across the globe report legitimate emails bouncing off Outlook.com since late January, with Microsoft offering little explanation and less support.
Nina Papadopoulos Around 90 political and community leaders gathered secretly in New Orleans in January, unaware of who else had been invited. The meeting was the starting gun for one of the most unusual coalitions in AI governance.
Helen Cartwright 
Vinyl sales are booming and turntable guides are multiplying. But most of what you read about buying your first record player gets the fundamentals wrong.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Melbourne's Rodney Gorham has lived with a Synchron brain implant longer than anyone else, and his daily experiments are shaping the future of brain-computer interfaces.
Zara Mitchell 
Google and refurbished tech marketplace Back Market are selling a $3 USB stick that installs ChromeOS Flex on older Windows PCs and Intel Macs, aiming to slash e-waste.
Sarah Cheng 
The Trump administration is considering forcing Chinese tech giant Tencent to divest from some of the world's most popular gaming companies, raising stakes before April talks with Beijing.
Oliver Pemberton The ESA and China's Academy of Sciences have independently demonstrated gigabit-speed laser links to geostationary satellites, raising the stakes in a high-altitude technological race.
Oliver Pemberton Silicon Valley's hottest AI startups are using a novel dual-pricing trick to manufacture billion-dollar valuations. The numbers look great — but the arithmetic tells a different story.
Mitchell Tan Motorola has partnered with the GrapheneOS Foundation to preinstall the privacy-hardened Android fork on future smartphones, with the first devices expected in 2027.
Yuki Tamura OpenAI has rolled out GPT-5.3 Instant with less moralising and fewer hallucinations, while its CEO admits the company's Pentagon deal was hurried and damaging.
Sophia Vargas 
Intel has formally announced its Xeon 6+ processors with up to 288 cores built on its 18A process node, a critical milestone in the company's effort to reclaim semiconductor leadership from TSMC.
Sophia Vargas Alibaba's Qwen AI project has lost its key technical lead, Junyang Lin, just a day after launching new small models that drew global attention.
James Callahan A Mexico-based startup faces an $82,314 Google bill after a stolen API key was used to burn through Gemini AI credits overnight, as researchers warn thousands more keys are vulnerable.
Tom Whitfield Nvidia-backed Ayar Labs has raised $500 million to mass-produce optical chiplets that could transform how AI systems connect at scale, joining a broader industry push to replace copper with light.
Yuki Tamura Sensitive chatbot conversations, including medical records, immigration disclosures, and mental health struggles, are being intercepted by free browser extensions and sold to data brokers.
Yuki Tamura 
Seagate's Mozaic 4+ platform delivers 44TB HAMR drives to two hyperscale cloud providers, claiming a 47% efficiency gain over older drives as the AI storage race intensifies.
Daniel Kovac