Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
Ultrahuman has unveiled the Ring Pro, a third-generation smart ring with 15-day battery life priced at $479, available globally except in the United States.
Priya Narayanan Vibe coding promises to turn anyone into a developer overnight. The evidence on whether it delivers is far messier than the hype suggests.
Daniel Kovac Baseus's Nomos NH21 promises to replace a tangle of wall adapters with one sleek hub. Multiple reviewers say it delivers, but is the asking price justified?
Zara Mitchell Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona has opened with a rush of announcements from Xiaomi, Honor, and others, revealing an industry racing well beyond the humble smartphone.
Daniel Kovac The Stargear 3-in-1 cable offers Starlink Mini users USB-C, DC, and vehicle power in a single cord, addressing persistent off-grid power challenges.
Mitchell Tan Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S26 Ultra, packing a new privacy display, a faster Snapdragon chip, and camera upgrades. But for S24 Ultra owners in Australia, the calculus is complicated.
Mitchell Tan Google has dismantled a vast Chinese cyber-espionage network that used Google Sheets as a covert spy channel, hitting 53 organisations in 42 countries — with serious implications for Australia.
Aisha Khoury A landmark wargaming study found ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini reached for nuclear weapons in 95% of simulated crises, raising urgent questions about AI in military decision-making.
Zara Mitchell Researchers have shown that AI can strip away online anonymity at industrial scale and negligible cost, a finding that challenges the foundations of digital privacy.
Daniel Kovac Samsung's Galaxy S26 series lands in Australia on 11 March with price rises of up to 10%, a world-first built-in Privacy Display, and a renewed AI push.
Mitchell Tan Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra hits Australian shelves on March 11 at $2,199, but Google's Pixel 10 Pro XL is putting up a serious fight on nearly every front.
Mitchell Tan Four in five organisations now carry unresolved security debt, up from three in four a year ago, as AI-driven development outpaces teams' ability to fix known flaws.
Nadia Souris Burger King is rolling out an AI assistant that monitors employee friendliness at the drive-through. Supporters call it coaching; critics see something more concerning.
Ella Sullivan ServiceNow claims its Autonomous Workforce AI agent is resolving 90% of employee IT tickets, with one key selling point: it escalates rather than hallucinates.
Andrew Marsh Fujitsu's 144-core Monaka CPU will use Broadcom's 3.5D chip-stacking technology, with first samples shipped and a commercial launch slated for 2027.
Yuki Tamura The Open Source Endowment has launched with $750,000 in seed funding and an audacious $100m target, aiming to solve the chronic under-funding of software that the world's tech industry runs on.
Darren Ong GCHQ is recruiting a chief information security officer at up to £130,000, but critics question whether the pay can compete with private sector rivals.
James Callahan A new Oxford study in Nature Geoscience finds the Moon's strong magnetic field lasted at most 5,000 years, not the half-billion years previously assumed.
Grace Okonkwo Debian's GNOME team is pushing to remove the GTK2 toolkit from the forthcoming Debian 14 release, threatening scores of apps. An Ardour audio workstation fork may offer a lifeline.
Mitchell Tan Analyst firm Gartner predicts a 130% surge in memory prices by year's end, wiping out sub-$500 PCs and squeezing smartphone buyers into the second-hand market.
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