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, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.
Claude is wildly outperforming GPT and Gemini in BullshitBench. Its creator thinks some vendors may be losing touch with fundamentals.
Nationally distributed timing infrastructure is a go, says department, to "ensure industries are future-ready with accurate and reliable time".
Hardware manufacturers are shipping specialised AI chips for everyone, from data centres to consumers.
No reports yet that CVE-2026-20079 and CVE-2026-20131 are being exploited, but we happen to know Cisco 0days get quietly exploited for years.
Google further teases AI agents that can no-code engineer networks.
Throttled launches and a DynamoDB control plane hidden from users shows how hyperscalers deal when the public cloud takes a literal hit.
AWS taking a hit notwithstanding, theoretically vulnerable online infrastructure in the Red Sea is not at increased risk.
Power and connectivity issues in the Middle East region will last at least hours, and critical data needs to be elsewhere, says Amazon Web Services.
Direct-to-cell data with Starlink via O2 promises lightweight connectivity everywhere, instantly and pretty fairly cheap, but...