Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Intel and AMD's processor supplies are drying up as AI data centres monopolise foundry capacity, pushing CPU prices up 10-15% and squeezing gaming PC makers harder than ever.
Andrew Marsh 
A Kentucky farming family has rejected a $26 million offer for half their land, choosing generational ties to the soil over a payday worth ten times the local going rate.
Oliver Pemberton 
Windows 95 faced a problem: installers routinely overwrote critical system files with older versions. Microsoft's solution was ingenious and hidden from users.
Nadia Souris 
iFixit awards Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra a middling 5/10 repairability score despite design improvements, revealing a company that understands repair-friendly hardware but refuses to fully commit to it.
Mitchell Tan 
Apple is rolling out mandatory age verification for UK iPhone users under iOS 26.4, reflecting pressure from the Online Safety Act. But early reactions suggest the move raises as many questions as it answers.
Tom Whitfield 
Samsung's upcoming mid-range phones face significant price increases, reflecting broader pressure on consumer device makers as AI data centre demands consume memory production capacity.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Samsung's redesigned Galaxy A57 and A37 deliver premium features to budget shoppers, though rising component costs mean deeper wallets are required.
Oliver Pemberton 
Seven major tech companies pledged $12.5m in security grants to open source, but critics say it barely scratches the surface of the industry's dependence on unpaid developers.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
A YouTuber has demonstrated that the 1982 Sinclair ZX Spectrum can control a lunar lander in a space simulation, challenging assumptions about computing power and ingenuity.
Oliver Pemberton 
HP's new Z8 Fury G6i workstation includes an optional chassis expander to handle increasingly demanding GPU configurations, reflecting the hardware arms race in AI computing.
Daniel Kovac 
X is reweighting its revenue-sharing system to prioritise engagement from users' home regions, targeting overseas accounts that masquerade as American commentators to earn money from US audience attention.
Tom Whitfield 
The UK Ministry of Defence is urgently recruiting digital leaders at multiple levels as it struggles with ageing IT systems that have repeatedly exposed classified information.
Yuki Tamura 
A new report analysing millions of enterprise endpoints finds Windows PCs crash and freeze far more often than Apple machines, yet the full story is more complicated.
Mitchell Tan 
Alibaba has unveiled a new server chip using open-source RISC-V architecture, signalling China's broader push to build a domestically controlled semiconductor ecosystem independent of Western controls.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
HP launches HP IQ, a local AI tool for business laptops that summarises meetings and shares files nearby. The convenience comes with privacy concerns over covert recording and insufficient consent mechanisms.
Nadia Souris 
Samsung has announced two new Mini LED TVs priced significantly below its flagship models, signalling a shift toward making advanced display technology available at accessible price points.
Daniel Kovac 
Arm announced its first production CPU, the AGI processor, designed to deliver double the performance per data centre rack while slashing capital expenditure by up to $10 billion per gigawatt of computing capacity.
Andrew Marsh 
Baltimore has filed a lawsuit against xAI and X over the Grok chatbot's ability to generate non-consensual sexual images, including content involving children. The city claims the companies violated consumer protection laws by marketing Grok as safe.
Helen Cartwright 
Microsoft and Nvidia have launched an AI collaboration to streamline nuclear plant design, permitting and construction, with one startup already cutting permitting time by 92%. The push reflects global data centre power demands driving nuclear's comeback.
Jake Nguyen 
A New Mexico jury has ordered Meta to pay $375 million after finding the company willfully misled users about child safety while enabling sexual exploitation on its platforms.
Sarah Cheng