Tech News 2026 cyber forecast: AI attacks and rising political tensions We take a look at the biggest topics in cybersecurity for 2026. 12/01/2026
Tech News TikTok pulls Polish far-right leaders videos over antisemitism One of the videos removed from the platform showed Polish politician Grzegorz Braun denying the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, one of the largest German concentration camps during World War II. 09/01/2026
Tech News DeepSeek's AI gains traction in developing nations, Microsoft says DeepSeek, China's leading artificial intelligence start-up, is popular in countries such as Belarus, Russia, Syria, Iran and Ethiopia, according to a new Microsoft study. 09/01/2026
Space SpaceX to lower thousands of Starlink satellites in 2026 Bringing the satellites down will reduce the risk of collisions between satellites, the company said. 03/01/2026
Tech News 2025 was China’s ‘breakthrough’ year in AI and chips, president says Chinese President Xi Jinping said 2025 was the year of breakthroughs for Chinese artificial intelligence and semiconductor chip companies. What did they accomplish and what can we expect in 2026? 02/01/2026
Space Space missions in 2026: The Moon, Mercury, and the magnetosphere 2026 promises to be an exciting year for space missions. From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for. 31/12/2025
Tech News ‘AI Jesus’ is offering spiritual advice online, raising the alarm Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots made in the likeness of one of the Catholic religion’s most important figures could ‘homogenise’ our understanding of its traditions and practices over time, experts say. 24/12/2025
Tech News Which EU countries are considering banning social media for children? European countries such as the UK, Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Finland and Germany are considering restrictions on children’s social media. 23/12/2025
Tech News Ukrainians sue US chip firms for allegedly powering Russian drones The lawsuits argue that the tech companies ‘weak compliance protocols and limited surveillance of their supply chains' led to their products being used by the Russians. 15/12/2025
Tech News AI agent outperforms human hackers at a fraction of the cost, study The AI agent ‘demonstrated technical sophistication,’ comparable to the strongest human participants in the study. 15/12/2025
Tech News Thousands of AI videos sexualising young girls found on TikTok, report TikTok videos show young girls in sexualised clothing or in suggestive positions with links in the comments to child pornography selling groups on Telegram. 14/12/2025
Tech News Brits spend 51% of time online on Google or Meta sites, regulator says Meta platforms dominate in messaging and social media, while Google is still the search engine of choice. 11/12/2025
Tech News Who uses AI agents and why? Perplexity releases first data Most adopters of the AI agent are highly educated, from rich countries, and work in either technology or knowledge-heavy fields, a new study found. 10/12/2025
Tech News What to know about Australia’s new under-16 social media ban Experts say Australia’s new social media ban might not change children’s online lives as much as regulators hope. 10/12/2025
Tech News Europe falls behind the Global South in AI adoption, OECD report Generation Z and young millennials in the Global South are embracing AI at much higher rates than their European counterparts, according to a new survey from the OECD. 04/12/2025
Tech News Meta removes accounts for under-16s due to Australia social media ban Under-16s on Meta platforms are starting to have their accounts removed ahead of Australia’s world-first social media ban. 04/12/2025
Tech News Europe is trying to write a new sovereign AI map. Here's how Europe wants to break away from depending on American Big Tech companies for AI. 01/12/2025
Space Cyber warfare in space: Attacks on space systems rose since 2023 New research shows there were more than 237 cyber operations that targeted space infrastructure from 2023-2025. 30/11/2025
Tech News Social media algorithms can alter political views, study says A browser extension powered by AI can reduce how people feel about opposing political views, according to new research that looked into the 2024 US presidential election. 28/11/2025
Space How the European Space Agency plans to catch up in space race These are the European Space Agency’s new top 4 space priorities. 27/11/2025