2026-06-24

Don’t overspend on your mobile plan — these 5 EOFY deals on SIM-only plans will give you more data for less

Unless you’re locked in to a specific telco with your phone, it’s a lot easier to switch mobile plans in Australia, which means you can easily swap to a provider offering the best deals — here are the best ones I’ve found. [...]

2026-06-24

French Startup Uses Special Polymers to Better Help Nerves Heal

The biodegradable material can help improve healing after surgery—or an avocado-related accident. [...]

2026-06-24

Windows 11 is now 5 years old — and for the first time this decade, I think Microsoft's finally onto a winner with the OS

Windows 11 got off on the wrong foot, but Microsoft has recovered strongly this year with the fix the OS campaign — and more besides. [...]

2026-06-24

NATO and Ukraine launch $300,000 competition to find the best 'Spiderweb-type' tools to destroy billions of dollars of Russian planes and aerial assets

NATO and Ukraine launched a €250,000 competition seeking technologies capable of disabling enemy airfields, aircraft, and supporting infrastructure. [...]

2026-06-24

Forget storage anxiety with this 20TB Seagate external hard drive — it's one of our favourites and it's 32% off

We named Seagate’s Expansion Desktop the best external hard drive for high capacity and it’s down to just AU$623.73 via Amazon Germany. [...]

2026-06-24

The US is pressing Meta to let it review its AI, and Meta is the last holdout

The Trump administration has been pressing Meta to submit its most capable AI models for federal security review, leaving the company the only major US developer that has not agreed to do so, according to a New York Times report. The push, the paper says, has come through emails as Washington steps up oversight of frontier […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-24

Alibaba sues the US government for adding it to list of firms linked to Chinese military

Alibaba is suing the US government to be removed from a blacklist with companies linked to China's People's Liberation Army. [...]

2026-06-24

You can save £100 on Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset if you act fast — and have a PayPal account

Samsung Galaxy XR preorders are live — and you can save £100 if you act fast. [...]

2026-06-24

South Korea is in talks with Samsung and SK Hynix over a second chip cluster

A presidential adviser says AI demand could pull forward the next phase of fab construction by more than a decade, and that the country needs somewhere to put it. South Korea’s government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about the next phase of large-scale investment in chip manufacturing, a presidential adviser said […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]