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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.

Printer demand isn't dead, just sleeping, says HP about RTO

29% of HP's business makes 56% of its profits. Guess which part?

A bus stop advertising screen showing a blue "recovery" window after the Crowdstrike outage in 2024

AI and consolidation drive sales, but briefly bringing down large swathes of the planet is still a drag.

Okta is terribly excited about the chaos of agentic AI

Whether the future is SaaS or custom, more agents and more uncertainty means it (or maybe Microsoft) wins, says the identity specialist.

Perplexity hit in Japan – just as it beats Google to AI revenue-share model

Perplexity unveiled its Comet Plus revenue-sharing plan for publishers, a day before new copyright claims in Japan surfaced.

Copilot Chat left VS Code open to arbitrary code execution - GitHub

Copilot Chat for VS Code was vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, enabling data theft and even arbitrary code execution, with no LLMs completely safe.

App dominance, plus $25, to secure Android access under new sideload rules

Stricter rules on package naming will give dominance to established apps on Android, even for sideloading-only packages.

GPT-5 drops (some) API costs, goes head-to-head with Gemini on price

OpenAI messes with pricing structure, now not at all dissimilar to Google's.

Fortinet's one million end-of-life firewalls has investors freaking out a bit

SASE is growing, but analysts are worried refresh cycle on 15-year-old devices

Taiwan reports suggest IBM-linked Japanese JV is criminally keen for 2-nanometre chip secrets

2nm products are lined up, but yields are – mostly – still low.

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