Technological Information

Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?
Saturday, 25. July 2026 12:14 o'clock
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
Friday, 24. July 2026 22:37 o'clock
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
Friday, 24. July 2026 22:23 o'clock
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
Friday, 24. July 2026 16:27 o'clock
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
Friday, 24. July 2026 01:10 o'clock
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
Thursday, 23. July 2026 22:58 o'clock
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
Thursday, 23. July 2026 22:42 o'clock
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
Thursday, 23. July 2026 15:24 o'clock
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
Thursday, 23. July 2026 13:39 o'clock
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
Wednesday, 22. July 2026 21:04 o'clock
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
Wednesday, 22. July 2026 13:40 o'clock
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
Tuesday, 21. July 2026 11:15 o'clock
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
Monday, 20. July 2026 22:08 o'clock
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
Tuesday, 21. July 2026 22:00 o'clock
Dogs have a great sense of smell. Now machines are being trained to sniff out odours.
Tech Life
Tuesday, 14. July 2026 22:00 o'clock
Surgeons remotely control two human-like robots in an operating theatre.
Tech Life
Tuesday, 7. July 2026 22:00 o'clock
The impact screen time is having on younger children.
Tech Life
Tuesday, 30. June 2026 21:30 o'clock
We hear concerns that shadow banning is limiting access to health advice for women.
Tech Now
Saturday, 25. July 2026 03:00 o'clock
Highlights from the Esports World Cup in Paris and how to build a gaming PC.
Tech Now
Saturday, 18. July 2026 03:00 o'clock
Ammie Sekhon goes behind the scenes of WWE to see the tech that supports the show.
Tech Now
Saturday, 11. July 2026 03:00 o'clock
Adrienne Murray has rare access to Microsoft's Quantum Lab in Denmark.
Tech Now
Saturday, 4. July 2026 03:00 o'clock
Adrienne Murray meets the team using technology to preserve a historic warship in Sweden.

Sources: DeepSeek told investors it is suspending its second funding round after remarks attributed to Liang Wenfeng on US-China AI competition went viral (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 17:40 o'clock

Pei Li / Bloomberg:
Sources: DeepSeek told investors it is suspending its second funding round after remarks attributed to Liang Wenfeng on US-China AI competition went viral — DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it's suspending the deal for now, people familiar with the matter said …
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI (New York Times)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 16:45 o'clock

New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI — Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.
SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 15:50 o'clock

Ian King / Bloomberg:
SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Anthropic PBC has asked SK Hynix Inc., one of the world's biggest manufacturers of memory chips …
As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z (Akriti Sharma/Bloomberg)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 13:10 o'clock

Akriti Sharma / Bloomberg:
As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z — As student protests spread across India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned to Meta Platforms Inc.'s Instagram Reels …
A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO (Charlie Campbell/Time)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 12:40 o'clock

Charlie Campbell / Time:
A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO — Spectators typically leave a UFC fight with ringing ears and a sheepish resolve to get back to the gym. Wang Xingxing went straight to his laboratory.
Samsung announces a $200B+ contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products (Hooyeon Kim/Bloomberg)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 11:45 o'clock

Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg:
Samsung announces a $200B+ contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products — Samsung Electronics Co. won a contract worth more than $200 billion to make chips for Broadcom Inc., as the companies race to win a larger share of the AI infrastructure market.
A profile of Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, which faced early doubts over revenue and model capabilities before its Kimi K3 delivered a "DeepSeek moment" (Financial Times)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 08:35 o'clock

Financial Times:
A profile of Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, which faced early doubts over revenue and model capabilities before its Kimi K3 delivered a “DeepSeek moment” — Known as ‘Yang the genius’ by classmates, his new K3 model has closed the gap with leading US rivals
Candid Health, which develops tech and AI agents to automate medical billing and claims processing workflows, raised a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 08:25 o'clock

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:
Candid Health, which develops tech and AI agents to automate medical billing and claims processing workflows, raised a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth — Candid Health cofounder Doug Proctor spun his laptop around to show me a herd of wild horses grazing behind him in upstate New York during our first Zoom call.
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 08:20 o'clock

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline — Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said on Friday the company has secured a deal with Google (GOOGL.O), valued at more than $1 billion …
Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
Saturday, 25. July 2026 08:15 o'clock

Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News:
Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation — - Meshy raises nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, which it says is the largest round any dedicated AI-3D company has raised.