As Middle East tensions continue, IDC sees worsening tech environment
IDC has reiterated its warnings that a long-drawn out war in the Middle East is likely to drastically reduce global IT spending for 2026. The research
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Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it
In short: Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox
Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject
In short: Intel has signed on as the primary foundry partner for Elon Musk’s Terafab, a $25 billion joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI targeting
TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre
The new facility in Lahti is part of TikTok’s €12 billion Project Clover data sovereignty push for European users. Finland’s defence ministry approved the first
Trent AI raises $13M to build multi-agent security for a world where AI systems are running themselves
The London startup emerged from stealth on 7 April with a layered agentic security solution and a seed round backed by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation
Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia’s military
The Russian military is once again hacking home and small office routers in widespread operations that send unwitting users to sites that harvest passwords and
SCOTUS overturns 5th Circuit ruling that told ISP to kick pirates off Internet
The Supreme Court yesterday overturned a 5th Circuit ruling that could have forced Internet service provider Grande Communications to terminate broadband subscribers accused of piracy.
Z.ai unveils GLM-5.1, enabling AI coding agents to run autonomously for hours
Chinese AI company Z.ai has launched GLM-5.1, an open-source coding model it says is built for agentic software engineering. The release comes as AI vendors
The Android dark mode upgrade you deserve
Love it or hate it, Android’s dark mode has one foundational flaw — an oversight in how it operates that keeps it from being a
Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow
PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban in a TikTok video on Wednesday. It takes effect on 1 January 2027. Enforcement will rely on a state-mandated
Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos
In short: A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing
Utah let AI prescribe medicine
The case for AI prescription renewals is real. So is the case against trusting a state sandbox to catch the risks. In January, a security
Valve brings native Steam Link app to Apple’s Vision Pro
Valve is bringing Steam Link, its local network game-streaming app, to Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset, allowing Vision Pro users to play traditional games
Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds
Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)