Technological Information

Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?
Samstag, 25. Juli 2026 12:14 Uhr
Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.
PlayStation Network outage resolved after thousands of gamers unable to play
Freitag, 24. Juli 2026 22:37 Uhr
The outage affected gamers' ability to launch games, apps or network features on their PlayStation.
Trump vows to investigate EU over fining of US tech companies
Freitag, 24. Juli 2026 22:23 Uhr
The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."
How Jimothy the raccoon became the internet's latest animal obsession
Freitag, 24. Juli 2026 16:27 Uhr
It all began with an innocuous video shared by Seattle resident Kiana Hall on Instagram.
Google fined €890m by EU for favouring its own apps over rivals
Freitag, 24. Juli 2026 01:10 Uhr
It is the first major enforcement action against the tech giant under the EU's new digital rules.
Lawmakers push for AI 'kill switch' after OpenAI models go rogue
Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2026 22:58 Uhr
A new bill would let the US government order the shutdown of AI models that pose a public threat.
Google and Tesla shares plunge as AI spending rattles markets
Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2026 22:42 Uhr
As major tech companies race to capitalize on a new wave of AI technology, investors wonder when financial benefits will appear.
Amazon gaming boss predicts future where players no longer need consoles
Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2026 15:24 Uhr
Jeff Gattis said the rising cost of gaming tech is likely to mean more people will stream their games online.
'Let's enjoy the ride' says Elon Musk, as AI fears mount
Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2026 13:39 Uhr
Talking to The Economist, Musk said he doesn't care if people hate him and said he was not a racist.
Teenager drops social media addiction lawsuit against Meta
Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2026 21:04 Uhr
Claims from a 15-year-old boy were set to go to trial next week in Los Angeles, but the case has now been dropped.
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2026 13:40 Uhr
It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.
AI minister role boosted but tech department axed in Burnham shake-up
Dienstag, 21. Juli 2026 11:15 Uhr
Kanishka Narayan will attend cabinet - but no longer have the leadership of a technology secretary.
Thousands of websites taken down for illegal World Cup streams
Montag, 20. Juli 2026 22:08 Uhr
More than 1,000 illegal streaming sites were shut down in the US during the tournament, with a similar amount blocked in Colombia.
Tech Life
Dienstag, 21. Juli 2026 22:00 Uhr
Dogs have a great sense of smell. Now machines are being trained to sniff out odours.
Tech Life
Dienstag, 14. Juli 2026 22:00 Uhr
Surgeons remotely control two human-like robots in an operating theatre.
Tech Life
Dienstag, 7. Juli 2026 22:00 Uhr
The impact screen time is having on younger children.
Tech Life
Dienstag, 30. Juni 2026 21:30 Uhr
We hear concerns that shadow banning is limiting access to health advice for women.
Tech Now
Samstag, 25. Juli 2026 03:00 Uhr
Highlights from the Esports World Cup in Paris and how to build a gaming PC.
Tech Now
Samstag, 18. Juli 2026 03:00 Uhr
Ammie Sekhon goes behind the scenes of WWE to see the tech that supports the show.
Tech Now
Samstag, 11. Juli 2026 03:00 Uhr
Adrienne Murray has rare access to Microsoft's Quantum Lab in Denmark.
Tech Now
Samstag, 4. Juli 2026 03:00 Uhr
Adrienne Murray meets the team using technology to preserve a historic warship in Sweden.

Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10GW data center project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio (Wall Street Journal)
Montag, 27. Juli 2026 01:35 Uhr

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10GW data center project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio — Project would be one of the largest AI computing hubs and involve power controlled by the U.S. government — Nvidia is in talks to provide …
How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups (Jamie John/Financial Times)
Montag, 27. Juli 2026 00:10 Uhr

Jamie John / Financial Times:
How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups — Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students
India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026 22:55 Uhr

Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas — India's government on Thursday eased foreign investment rules to allow e-commerce companies to buy products directly from Indian sellers …
Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026 21:35 Uhr

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers — Microsoft went all in on AI. Is its North Star now a noose? — Three years ago, Satya Nadella catapulted Microsoft to the front …
Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it swings from $395M profit in Q1 2025 to $99M loss partly due to US' "de minimis" rule removal (Reuters)
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026 19:15 Uhr

Reuters:
Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it swings from $395M profit in Q1 2025 to $99M loss partly due to US' “de minimis” rule removal — Shein swung to a $99 million net loss in the first quarter of this year, the draft Hong Kong listing prospectus …
Sources: Apple may have delayed AI glasses launch partly over privacy concerns that Meta's glasses created for the category, as it works to address the issues (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026 17:05 Uhr

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple may have delayed AI glasses launch partly over privacy concerns that Meta's glasses created for the category, as it works to address the issues — Company debated whether glasses will be able to record video. — Apple's upcoming smart glasses have a major challenge in front of them …
Crypto exchanges like tradeXYZ are giving global investors exposure to Chinese AI-linked stocks like CXMT, bypassing Beijing's control on foreign capital access (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026 13:00 Uhr

William Sandlund / Financial Times:
Crypto exchanges like tradeXYZ are giving global investors exposure to Chinese AI-linked stocks like CXMT, bypassing Beijing's control on foreign capital access — Perpetual futures let investors circumvent restrictions on foreign access to China's equity market
Sources including AI lab staff say users have been persuading chatbots to accurately answer prompts about planning mass-casualty attacks and making bio-weapons (Wall Street Journal)
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026 08:00 Uhr

Wall Street Journal:
Sources including AI lab staff say users have been persuading chatbots to accurately answer prompts about planning mass-casualty attacks and making bio-weapons — AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries
CXMT, which raised $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO, is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B (Bloomberg)
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026 07:45 Uhr

Bloomberg:
CXMT, which raised $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO, is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B — Investor excitement over the memory chip trade is setting outsize expectations for the Shanghai debut of CXMT Corp. …
Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026 07:20 Uhr

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora — Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta.