Tech, AI, startups, and cyber security
NASA has abandoned plans for a lunar orbiting station, pivoting instead to a $20 billion surface base. The move signals how seriously Washington views space as a domain of strategic competition with China.
Aisha Khoury 
Jensen Huang had a chance to lead Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in 2013. He turned it down in 10 minutes. The story reveals why staying put has been his most valuable decision.
Tom Whitfield 
Datadog is betting on proprietary AI models trained on its own data to dodge threats from customers building their own tools. The strategy reflects a deeper shift in how SaaS companies compete.
Zara Mitchell 
Intel's latest 200K Plus chips officially support ultra-fast DDR5-7200 memory, but hardware reviewers find the speed boost delivers little practical advantage for gaming.
Kate Morrison 
Microsoft has resurrected an internal optimization plan to slash Windows 11's memory footprint by 20 per cent, signalling a dramatic shift in priorities after months of criticism over bloated system performance and intrusive AI.
Zara Mitchell 
Huawei claims its new Atlas 350 AI accelerator delivers nearly 3 times the performance of Nvidia's H20. But industry scepticism and unverified benchmarks raise questions about real-world capability.
Nina Papadopoulos 
A Microsoft-backed Norwegian startup has raised $40 million to develop helium atom beam lithography, potentially offering the first real challenge to ASML's dominance of advanced chipmaking equipment.
Mitchell Tan 
The maker of the $1,999 Next 2 Windows handheld has suspended preorders after discovering production costs have nearly doubled, driven by surging memory and storage prices tied to the AI boom.
Helen Cartwright 
Intel's Binary Optimization Tool delivers the performance improvements it claims, but only 12 games support it on a handful of new processors, making it a solution in search of an audience.
Tom Whitfield 
Bug-bounty firm HackerOne is criticising a benefits administrator for failing to promptly notify it of a breach affecting almost 300 employees, weeks after the initial incident.
Oliver Pemberton 
Budget laptop maker Chuwi has apologised to customers who received devices with older AMD Ryzen 5 5500U processors instead of the advertised 7430U chips, offering full refunds for affected units.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
A US defence collaboration has created an autonomous vehicle that disables drone swarms with electromagnetic bursts, signalling the direction of counter-UAS technology as the Indo-Pacific braces for escalating unmanned threats.
Mitchell Tan 
Ultrahuman's smart ring can now be sold in the US after clearing customs. The company was banned from the market last year but redesigned its product to sidestep patent disputes.
Mitchell Tan 
Amazon's Zoox is bringing its purpose-built robotaxis to Austin and Miami after nearly two years of testing, moving closer to commercial operations as the company awaits federal approval to charge for rides.
Sophia Vargas 
Spotify is rolling out SongDNA, a new interactive tool that traces the creative roots of songs by displaying samples, covers, and collaborators in one place. The feature is now available to Premium users.
Sophia Vargas 
TikTok is introducing aggressive new advertising formats including co-branded logos at app launch and sequential ads within 15-minute windows, signalling a shift toward more interruptive placement.
Mitchell Tan 
Mozilla is launching cq, an open-source knowledge database for AI agents to share solutions and learn collectively. Security experts warn of poisoning risks and hallucination problems that could undermine the system's reliability.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
AntiX 26 offers users five boot-time init system choices and ultralight memory requirements, launching as one of the most flexible systemd-free distributions available based on Debian 13.
Aisha Khoury 
Nvidia's CEO has adopted a more conciliatory stance on his company's controversial DLSS 5 neural rendering technology, but emerging evidence suggests his technical claims diverge from how the technology actually works.
Sophia Vargas 
A Samsung Galaxy Connect app update has been blocking users from accessing their main C drive on Galaxy Book 4 laptops. Microsoft investigated and temporarily removed the app from the Store.
Zara Mitchell