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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter, before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery.

'N+2' data centre cooling outage causes chaos in futures market

CME sold its data centre to CyrusOne, then looked to Google Cloud, but a user revolt kept it on a legacy hybrid.

OpenAI customer data leaked in third-party, metadata-only smish

Is any supply chain safe? The world's most valuable privately-held company's experience with Mixpanel suggests no.

Anthropic and OpenAI cosign UI app layer for MCP

SEP-1865 seeks to formalise MCP-UI as an extension before UI SDKs proliferate, starting with HTML.

Palo Alto spends $3.35 billion on Chronosphere for AI-ready observability

Palo Alto’s $3.35B Chronosphere deal aims to unify observability and agentic remediation, collapsing the stack for AI-scale data centres.

As breakthroughs galore land, is useful quantum compute nigh?

Quantum math monsters are about to chew up your cryptography and heal endometriosis, perhaps, maybe?

"We have work to do", admits Windows president after agentic fury

Pavan Davuluri descended into the social trenches to say Microsoft loves devs, and knows Windows isn't perfect.

Forget GPUs, Samsung DDR5 prices are up 30% to 60% after panic buying

Prices for DDR5 and DDR4 are spiking, with the manufacturers holding all the cards.

North Wales gets nuclear power and AI Growth Zone – now with cheap electricity

The UK's AI development zones will get cheaper power and preferential grid access, says govt, as Wylfa SMR confirmed.

Android sideloader revolt succeeds – sort of

Google says self-declared experts will be able to download all the malware they like, and true hobbyists can stay anonymous.

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