Information Technology

Saturday, 18 July 2026

Amazon's cloud billed some customers up to $1.5 trillion — for a coffee's worth of service →

A billing bug at Amazon Web Services sent customers around the world invoices as high as $1.5 trillion before the company caught it. A Telstra outage, a new Chinese AI model, a rough week for chip stocks, and a run of ransomware round out the day.

Friday, 17 July 2026

The EU orders Google to open Android and share its search data with rivals →

Brussels invokes its gatekeeper law to force open two of tech's biggest platforms, while TSMC's record quarter, a Coca-Cola ransomware shutdown, and China's chip and model push fill out a busy day.

Thursday, 16 July 2026

The AI bet quietly shifts from the model to the plumbing →

While chipmakers post record profits and Microsoft ships a record pile of security patches, the biggest money in AI is moving toward a less glamorous prize — getting the models to actually work inside real companies.

Wednesday, 15 July 2026

New York becomes the first state to pull the brake on data centers →

A one-year moratorium on large data centers lands as the biggest US grid falls short of its own power target for the first time — the compute boom is hitting a physical wall.

Tuesday, 14 July 2026

The AI trade wobbles — the machines keep getting built anyway →

Chipmaker stocks sold off on doubts the AI boom is overbuilt, even as TSMC posts record revenue and Meta's data center crosses a quarter-trillion dollars. Plus where the value is trying to move next, new rules for kids online, and the minerals under all of it.

Monday, 13 July 2026

Companies pushed staff to use AI. It backfired — and workers are pushing back →

The corporate order to 'use more AI' is misfiring inside the firms that gave it, software layoffs are feeding a political backlash, and the chipmakers underneath the boom keep breaking records.

Sunday, 12 July 2026

Meta launched an AI feature that used your public photos — then killed it three days later →

A fast public "no" from an actor and an actors' union forced Meta to pull an image tool that opted everyone in by default. Plus: brain tech without the drill, glasses built not to watch, and a court that restored a hacked gamer's library.

Saturday, 11 July 2026

Apple sues OpenAI over stolen hardware secrets — and names the two engineers it says carried them out the door →

Apple's lawsuit says former staff took confidential files to OpenAI's hardware team. Brussels declares Meta's autoplay and infinite scroll addictive. SK Hynix pulls off the biggest foreign IPO in US history. And America's top cyber agency admits it wrote its emergency plan mid-emergency.

Friday, 10 July 2026

OpenAI's most powerful model went public — but nobody can say how the government decided it was safe →

GPT-5.6 cleared a US government review and shipped to everyone on Thursday. The people who study AI safety for a living say they have no idea what the review actually checked.

Thursday, 9 July 2026

A 16-year-old flaw in cloud plumbing lets one tenant take over the whole machine →

A newly disclosed Linux bug called Januscape breaks the wall between rented virtual machines — the invisible partition every cloud customer trusts without seeing. Plus a 6.9-million-record breach, banks bracing for quantum, and Apple's EU loss.

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Smart glasses became a privacy fight — and this week the makers started fighting back against their own customers →

Meta will now shut off its glasses' camera if you tamper with the recording light, Solos is selling a clip-on lens cover, and courts and cruise lines are banning the devices outright. A quiet look at the week's other tech: a wave of gaming layoffs, a Windows bug eating your disk, and 2026's worst breaches.

Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Meta puts a number on the youth-safety trial it's fighting: $1.4 trillion →

Four US states want penalties close to Meta's entire market value — because they're multiplying a per-teen fine by every affected young user. Plus a wave of data-breach payouts and a trust breach inside AI coding tools.

Monday, 6 July 2026

Nvidia's flagship AI rack slips to 2028 — while the memory chipmakers who feed it print record profits →

Nvidia's next big server system is delayed more than a year on a manufacturing snag. The chipmakers who supply the one scarce part it needs — memory — are having the best year of their lives.

Sunday, 5 July 2026

The £30bn AI datacentre Britain announced was mostly a number nobody had committed →

A Guardian investigation finds two-thirds of the "£30bn" Stargate UK deal was hypothetical — and OpenAI never visited the key site. Plus Europe's sovereign-tech push and Alibaba banning Claude Code.

Saturday, 4 July 2026

Americans are recalling their local officials to stop AI datacenters — and the grid is already buckling →

A bipartisan revolt against datacenters spread to at least seven states last month, with residents launching recall votes over projects negotiated in secret. The same week, the biggest US grid begged 67 million people to cut power in a heatwave. Plus a ransomware crew leaks Apple's iPhone 18 Pro supplier list, and China's AI-video sector pulls in another $2.8 billion.

Friday, 3 July 2026

The AI can't deploy itself — and the industry just admitted it →

Zuckerberg told staff Meta's AI agents haven't arrived as hoped, days after betting 8,000 jobs on them. Microsoft is spending $2.5 billion to put 6,000 humans back in the loop. The gap between what the tech can do and what companies can use it for is now the story.

Thursday, 2 July 2026

Cloudflare flips the default — AI crawlers now get blocked unless they pay →

The company that sits in front of a fifth of the web is changing the internet's unwritten deal: scrape freely, or pay the publisher. Plus a privacy feature that leaked real emails, an $800M neocloud raise, and employers un-doing their AI layoffs.

Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Companies are making their AI "talk like cavemen" to cut the bill →

The cost of running AI is now large enough that engineers at OpenAI, Nvidia, and GitHub are deliberately shortening what models say — and a wave of cheaper models is arriving for the same reason.

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

South Korea bets $1 trillion on memory chips — but the fix won't arrive for years →

Samsung and SK Hynix will spend roughly $585 billion on new memory-chip plants to ease the AI-driven "RAMageddon" shortage, part of a $1 trillion national plan. The catch — a chip fab takes most of a decade to build, so prices won't fall soon.

Monday, 29 June 2026

Google told Meta no — even Meta can't buy enough AI compute →

Google capped how much of its Gemini AI Meta could rent, because Meta wanted more computing power than Google could supply. The richest companies in tech are now rationing each other, and the chipmakers selling the shovels are having the year of their lives.

Sunday, 28 June 2026

Australia is fining tech firms $99m for kids who slip past its under-16 ban — and the kids are still slipping past →

Australia doubled the maximum penalty on platforms that fail to keep under-16s off social media, even as new research finds more than four in five teens are still online six months in. The fight has become less about banning kids and more about who has to prove they're gone — and what counts as proof.

Saturday, 27 June 2026

Trump threatens a 100% tariff on any country that taxes US tech — and a trade deal signed days ago is suddenly in doubt →

A fight over how to tax borderless companies escalates into a tariff threat, while memory-chip costs, a supply-chain breach, and a big chip deal reshape the week.

Friday, 26 June 2026

The government just put its hand on the AI release valve →

The White House told OpenAI to drip-feed GPT-5.6 to a handful of customers it approves one by one — the same week Anthropic accused Alibaba of cloning Claude through 25,000 fake accounts. Plus IBM's sub-1nm chip claim, Micron's memory boom, and the EU eyeing the big US clouds.

Thursday, 25 June 2026

The most valuable company in AI this week makes the boring part →

Micron's memory-chip revenue quadrupled to $41 billion as AI's hunger for memory turned a commodity into the scarcest thing in tech — while Qualcomm muscled into Nvidia's turf and OpenAI revealed its own chip.

Wednesday, 24 June 2026

China takes the world's fastest-supercomputer crown — on a test that no longer measures the real race →

A Chinese machine just topped the famous TOP500 list using ordinary CPUs, not AI chips. But the list it won stopped tracking the kind of computing that matters most — and the real AI giants don't even enter.

Tuesday, 23 June 2026

Five nations' spy agencies warn AI hacking tools are "months away," not years →

A rare joint Five Eyes statement says frontier AI will supercharge cyberattacks within months, as OpenAI and others race to patch the world's software first.

Monday, 22 June 2026

AI is making scams look official — and fake customers look real →

A wave of GTA 6 "beta test" scams and undisclosed AI influencers share one engine — the cost of looking authentic has collapsed. Plus a push for higher big-tech taxes and the next AI bottleneck.

Sunday, 21 June 2026

A Nobel winner walks out of DeepMind — and shows where AI's real value sits →

Two of Google DeepMind's most senior researchers left for rivals in a single week. Plus Signal's warning about AI assistants, and AI-made "people" creeping into your feed.

Saturday, 20 June 2026

Apple says it will raise prices — the AI boom finally reached your phone bill →

A worldwide memory shortage driven by AI chips is forcing price hikes from Apple down to budget phone makers, who are cancelling devices outright.

Friday, 19 June 2026

Amazon starts selling the AI chips it built to escape Nvidia →

Amazon is in talks to sell its custom Trainium chips to outside customers — turning a tool it made for itself into a product. Plus a Trump-claimed Intel–Apple deal, Meta's new data-center pact, and a US warning to ASML about China.

Thursday, 18 June 2026

74,000 corporate firewalls cracked — the worst part is how ordinary the break-in was →

A self-feeding password attack hit half the internet's Fortinet firewalls, including ones at Oracle, Samsung and a NATO contractor. Plus AI splits the G7, Apple warns of price hikes, and the open web tries email.

Wednesday, 17 June 2026

SpaceX buys the AI coding tool Cursor for $60bn — and briefly becomes worth more than Amazon →

Elon Musk's SpaceX agreed to buy Anysphere, the maker of the AI coding app Cursor, for $60 billion in stock — days after a public listing that made the company more valuable than Amazon, even as the AI products it's betting on lose money.

Tuesday, 16 June 2026

Google starts pulling the last code that lets old ad blockers run in Chrome →

Two Chrome updates this summer finish off Manifest V2 — the extension system that gave ad blockers like uBlock Origin their power. Plus a $22bn Fox–Roku deal, a chip-buyout wave, and automakers scrambling for licenses on cars they've sold for years.

Monday, 15 June 2026

Rural America starts voting against the AI boom's power-hungry datacenters →

In Coweta County, Georgia, residents are gathering signatures to force a public vote on an 831-acre AI datacenter — part of a fast-spreading revolt against the power, water, and land the AI boom needs, landing in towns that get the costs but none of the upside.

Sunday, 14 June 2026

KPMG pulls an AI-written report about AI after the companies it named said the claims were false →

A Big Four firm published a report on how big organisations use AI, used AI to help write it, and named companies whose AI use it had invented. It's the second major consultancy to retract an AI-tainted report in a month.

Saturday, 13 June 2026

The US ordered Anthropic to kill its two most powerful AI models — overnight →

A Commerce Department directive forced Anthropic to shut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every user worldwide, days after launch. The trigger: the company's own warnings about how dangerous the models were.