Astro Technology Company, maker of the Astro web framework, has just been acquired by Cloudflare. The company also just released Astro 6 in beta, with the update featuring a redesigned development server. The merger with Cloudflare means Astro remains open source and MIT-licensed and continues to be actively maintained, according to the January 16 announcement.

The gold rush across the high-end processor market might help Apple’s processor manufacturing partner, TSMC, drive harder bargains than in the past. That’s because Apple’s huge appetite for processors is being met by fast-growing demand for chips for servers. As a result, the cost of the chips used inside Macs, iPads, and iPhones will likely increase,

The first Patch Tuesday release of the new year addresses 112 CVEs across Microsoft’s product portfolio, including eight rated critical and three zero-day vulnerabilities. One of the  zero-days (CVE-2026-20805), an information disclosure flaw in the Desktop Window Manager, is already under active exploitation. That prompted CISA to add it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Long before Taco Tuesday became part of the pop-culture vernacular, Tuesdays were synonymous with security — and for anyone in the tech world, they still are.  Patch Tuesday, as you most likely know, refers to the day each month when Microsoft releases security updates and patches for its software products — everything from Windows to

A new technology from digital banking platform Plumery AI aims to address a dilemma for financial institutions: how to move beyond proofs of concept and embed artificial intelligence into everyday banking operations without compromising governance, security, or regulatory compliance. Plumery’s “AI Fabric” has been positioned by the company as a standardised framework for connecting generative

After years of experimentation with artificial intelligence, retailers are striving to embed consumer insight directly into everyday commercial decisions. First Insight, a US-based analytics company specialising in predictive consumer feedback, argues that the next phase of retail AI should be epitomised by dialogue, not dashboards. Following a three-month beta programme, First Insight has made its

DeepL, a global AI product and research company, today announced the appointment of Gavin Mee as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Detlef Krause as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). These strategic additions to DeepL’s executive team mark a significant step forward in the company’s mission to redefine AI enterprise solutions and accelerate its global growth trajectory. 

24-Year Merck Veteran and Former SVP of R&D IT Joins TetraScience to Help Industrialize Scientific Data and AI Across Biopharma TetraScience, the Scientific Data and AI company, today announced the appointment of Matt Studney as Chief Customer Officer. Studney is a seasoned business, R&D, and technology leader with more than two decades of experience operating at

As cross-continental digitalisation developments converge to forge tomorrow’s AI economy, Africa today is united in its ambition to become a thriving, technologically empowered market where world-class digital infrastructure yields unprecedented socio-economic returns.  At the forefront of this shared pursuit stands a central catalyst: data centres, the physical environments engineered to support the compute, storage, and

1100% ARR growth in 2025, 115%+ net revenue retention, and 4x customer growth as AISquared scales secure, production-ready enterprise AI across commercial and federal markets AISquared, a provider of enterprise data and AI infrastructure platform, today announced strong business momentum and continued customer adoption, reflecting growing demand for secure, production-ready AI across enterprise and federal