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Featured image for: South Korea is spending $880 billion on chips, AI, and robots over the next decade
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South Korea is spending $880 billion on chips, AI, and robots over the next decade

South Korea committed $880 billion to semiconductors, AI, and robotics in the largest single-country chip investment in history. Here is what it ...

1 July 2026 · 3 min read
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Computing

Anthropic is in talks to run Claude on Microsoft's custom Maia chips

Anthropic is negotiating to run Claude inference on Microsoft's Maia 200 chip, the clearest sign yet that custom silicon is becoming a real Nvidia ...

1 July 2026 · 3 min read
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AMD RX 9060 XT: the $299 GPU that actually has enough VRAM

AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT launched June 5 at $299 with 16GB of VRAM. It outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by 15-20% and makes the RTX 5060 look overpriced.

30 June 2026 · 3 min read
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Security

The European Space Agency got hacked. The reason why is embarrassingly preventable.

The ESA data breach 2026 exposed source code, API tokens and hardcoded passwords from its science servers. A space agency caught by one of security's ...

30 June 2026 · 5 min read
Featured image for: Google Pixel 10 Pro at its lowest price yet: is it worth buying in June 2026?
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Google Pixel 10 Pro at its lowest price yet: is it worth buying in June 2026?

The Google Pixel 10 Pro has hit an all-time low price around £614-649. Here's what you get and whether the timing makes sense.

30 June 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: Honor Watch 6 review: 35 days of battery life at £149
EVs

Honor Watch 6 review: 35 days of battery life at £149

The Honor Watch 6 launched June 18 at £149.99 with a claimed 35-day battery, bright AMOLED display, and NFC payments.

30 June 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: Sony Xperia 1 VIII review: the only 2026 flagship with a headphone jack and microSD
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Sony Xperia 1 VIII review: the only 2026 flagship with a headphone jack and microSD

The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is a £1,399 camera-first Android flagship with a 3.5mm jack, microSD slot, and triple 48MP cameras. Europe from June 19.

30 June 2026 · 3 min read
Featured image for: The European Space Agency got hacked. The reason why is embarrassingly preventable.
Security

The European Space Agency got hacked. The reason why is embarrassingly preventable.

The ESA data breach 2026 exposed source code, API tokens and hardcoded passwords. A space agency breached by one of the most avoidable mistakes in ...

30 June 2026 · 1 min read
Featured image for: Qualcomm wants to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion to take on Nvidia
Computing

Qualcomm wants to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion to take on Nvidia

Qualcomm is in early talks to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent for $8 to $10 billion. Jim Keller's RISC-V bet could be the most credible challenge ...

29 June 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: Samsung Is Betting $648 Billion on AI Chips Over the Next Decade
Computing

Samsung Is Betting $648 Billion on AI Chips Over the Next Decade

Samsung Group is committing 1,000 trillion won ($648bn) to AI chip factories, data centres, and displays. Here's what the scale of this bet actually ...

29 June 2026 · 3 min read
Featured image for: Samsung Is Betting $648 Billion on AI Chips Over the Next Decade
Computing

Samsung Is Betting $648 Billion on AI Chips Over the Next Decade

Samsung Group is committing 1,000 trillion won ($648bn) to AI chip factories, data centres, and displays. Here's what the scale of this bet actually ...

29 June 2026 · 3 min read
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Tools

How AI agents actually work (and why they're nothing like chatbots)

AI agents aren't chatbots with extra steps. They plan, remember, use tools, and keep going until the task is done. Here's what's actually happening ...

28 June 2026 · 5 min read
Featured image for: How AI agents actually work (and why they're nothing like chatbots)
Tools

How AI agents actually work (and why they're nothing like chatbots)

AI agents aren't chatbots with extra steps. They plan, remember, use tools, and keep going until the task is done. Here's what's actually happening ...

28 June 2026 · 5 min read
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24 billion stolen credentials turned up in one exposed database

Researchers found an 8.3TB database of 24 billion credential records sitting open online. Most were fresh infostealer logs with plaintext passwords.

27 June 2026 · 3 min read
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Computing

A humanoid robot company is about to go public

Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit warehouse robot, is heading to public markets via a SPAC at a $2.5bn valuation, backed by Amazon, Nvidia and ...

27 June 2026 · 2 min read
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AI

The AI talent raid that won't slow down

Two more Gemini researchers joined Anthropic, the fourth senior Google exit in six days, as Anthropic accused Alibaba of millions of fraudulent Claude ...

27 June 2026 · 2 min read
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Chrome V8 zero-day is under active attack. Update now

Google rushed an emergency patch for CVE-2026-11645, a Chrome V8 flaw already being exploited in the wild. Here is what it is and what to do.

27 June 2026 · 3 min read
Featured image for: DeepSeek just made its 75% price cut permanent
AI

DeepSeek just made its 75% price cut permanent

DeepSeek's V4-Pro now sits at $0.44 per million input tokens and $0.87 output, permanently. That is up to 17x cheaper than GPT-5.5.

27 June 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: GPT-5.6 slips to July as OpenAI goes quiet
AI

GPT-5.6 slips to July as OpenAI goes quiet

GPT-5.6 was expected in late June. Prediction-market odds collapsed from 83% to 18%. The IPO quiet period looks like the reason.

27 June 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: IBM crams 100 billion transistors onto one chip
Computing

IBM crams 100 billion transistors onto one chip

IBM's NanoStack architecture puts 100 billion transistors on a single chip with 50% more performance and 70% less energy, via vertical stacking.

27 June 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: France's CNIL fines IQVIA 5 million euros over health data
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France's CNIL fines IQVIA 5 million euros over health data

The CNIL issued a 5 million euro GDPR fine against IQVIA Operations France over failures in health data warehouse safeguards, the largest single 2026 ...

27 June 2026 · 2 min read
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Security

Security firms got breached through a vendor they all trusted

Market intelligence provider Klue was hacked via its Salesforce integration, exposing data from customers including HackerOne, Huntress, OneTrust and ...

27 June 2026 · 3 min read
Featured image for: Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday fixed six zero-days and 200 flaws
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Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday fixed six zero-days and 200 flaws

Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed around 200 vulnerabilities, including six zero-days. Here is why you should not delay the update.

27 June 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: NotebookLM turns your own documents into a research assistant
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NotebookLM turns your own documents into a research assistant

Google's NotebookLM answers from your own files instead of the open web, and even generates an audio summary. Who it's for, and who should skip it.

27 June 2026 · 2 min read
Featured image for: One Medical hit by ransomware, 8.8 TB of data claimed
Security

One Medical hit by ransomware, 8.8 TB of data claimed

ShinyHunters claims to have stolen 8.8 TB from One Medical, the Amazon-owned primary care service handling millions of US health records.

27 June 2026 · 2 min read