Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Microsoft has moved two key ray tracing technologies out of preview in its latest DirectX update, with demo results showing up to a 90% framerate boost on Intel Arc B-Series GPUs.
Helen Cartwright 
A major new book on Apple's 50-year history offers rare insights into Steve Jobs's secretive creation of the original iPhone, drawing on 150 fresh interviews with key figures.
Zara Mitchell 
Oukitel's WP63 rugged smartphone features a built-in electric igniter, a 20,000mAh battery, and a 27mm frame — a deliberate rejection of the thin-phone trend.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
As Middle East conflict escalates, scientists explain why war alerts trigger doomscrolling and what platform design has to do with it.
Sophia Vargas 
British games studio Cloud Imperium Games sat on a data breach for six weeks before disclosing it through a near-invisible website alert, prompting backlash from its Star Citizen community.
Mitchell Tan Anthropic's Claude went down for millions of users worldwide on 3 March, as the company battles a US government blacklisting that could reshape the AI industry.
Daniel Kovac Huawei has unveiled its AI datacenter systems to global buyers at MWC Barcelona, promising fast deployment with homegrown chips — but independent benchmarks reveal a significant performance gap with Nvidia.
Mitchell Tan 
Pico has unveiled Project Swan, a high-end XR headset with micro-OLED displays sharper than Apple Vision Pro, alongside a rebuilt spatial OS designed to replace your monitor.
Jake Nguyen The US Supreme Court has declined to take up the question of AI copyright, leaving in place a rule that machines cannot be authors. The decision has direct relevance for Australia's own unresolved debate.
Yuki Tamura Microsoft has flagged an active campaign abusing the OAuth authentication standard to redirect government workers to malware-laden sites, raising fresh concerns for Australian agencies.
Nadia Souris 
Jolla's new Linux smartphone has racked up more than 10,000 pre-orders, priced at €649 and assembled in Finland. But can a niche device really dent Apple and Google's hold?
Darren Ong 
Deutsche Telekom is embedding AI inside phone calls across Germany, while Telstra prepares its own agentic AI pilot — a glimpse of how telcos worldwide are racing to deploy autonomous systems.
Aisha Khoury Lenovo's ThinkBook Modular AI PC and Tecno's wafer-thin modular phone wowed crowds at MWC 2026, but the graveyard of failed modular dreams raises the question: is this time different?
Daniel Kovac 
One of the internet's largest retro game archives is closing on 31 March, partly because AI datacenter demand has made hosting too expensive to sustain.
Tom Whitfield AI-driven ransomware can now target and corrupt backup systems before victims even know an attack is underway, exposing a dangerous gap in conventional data protection.
Yuki Tamura 
Clips from the military simulator Arma 3 are circulating again as supposed combat footage, this time during the US-Israel campaign against Iran, with a Canadian media personality among those who shared them.
Aisha Khoury Two strikingly different devices at MWC 2026 in Barcelona are reviving the modular hardware dream, but the tech industry's graveyard of failed experiments demands a sceptical eye.
Daniel Kovac Mastodon has launched an official 'Share to Mastodon' button that works across its sprawling network of servers, with no tracking data collected.
Yuki Tamura Apple is reportedly asking Google to host the next version of Siri on its servers, raising fresh questions about the company's AI strategy and its commitment to privacy-first cloud computing.
Mitchell Tan Businesses adopting AI are cutting corners on security, leaving sensitive data exposed. Experts and global agencies say the gap between deployment speed and governance is a crisis in the making.
Oliver Pemberton