Kearney ranks the UK among Europe’s slowest-growing data center markets, forecasting 17.6% annual demand growth to 2030, versus 36% in Ireland. High land and energy costs and slow grid connections are cited as obstacles.
Austin-based Icon raised $200 million in Series D funding co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock, bringing total funding to $700 million at a reported $1.4 billion valuation as it scales its multi-story Titan construction system.
MI5 chief Ken McCallum warned that anti-immigration extremists are increasingly likely to consider attacks on UK immigration centres and asylum hotels. He said the shift to violence was the most marked trend in MI5's caseload over the past year, as the overall UK terror threat level rose.
A TechRadar article published Oct. 13, 2026, says passkeys are gaining momentum as the National Cyber Security Centre backs a shift away from passwords. Alex Laurie of Ping Identity argues that AI-driven credential-stuffing and phishing make static passwords weak, while passkeys and new identity controls could secure people and autonomous AI agents.
Microsoft has opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark, an AI-focused Windows 11 laptop starting at $2,599.99. TechRadar also named top 2026 Windows 11 laptops and a $1,449 Gigabyte RTX 5070 Ti deal.
Garmin has launched the third-generation Marq series, a six-model luxury smartwatch line starting at $2,500, £2,199 or around AU$3,500. The range uses grade-5 titanium, ceramic bezels, nano-moulded polymer antenna strips and inductive buttons, and doubles storage to 128GB.
Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won this year's Nobel Prize in economics for work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization, including sticky prices that underpin New Keynesian economics.
Anthropic has argued that GLM-5.3, an open model from China's Z.ai, poses a major cyberattack risk because it can be freely downloaded and modified. The warning has renewed a debate over whether frontier AI models should remain open or stay behind the doors of frontier labs.
TechRadar published an analysis warning that enterprise IT remains optimized for AI training while inference becomes the dominant workload. It cites IDC, Deloitte, McKinsey and Gartner on inference demand, agent growth, network strain and the rising role of CPUs.
Samsung's Android XR glasses leaked with three Warby Parker frames, dozens of colors, and specs including a 41-gram weight. Launch is expected in November.
Google has announced a multi-year partnership with Flo Health to build personalized women's health experiences in Google Health and Fitbit products. Google says Flo data will not be used for advertising, sold, or moved without explicit consent, following a $56 million class-action settlement involving Flo and Google; Meta was found liable after declining to settle.
Petri Alanko, composer of Control Resonant, told TechRadar Gaming that the game's soundtrack grew out of its setting, the idea of 'human vocals' shared with Remedy, and Dylan's dysfunctional relationship with the entity Hedron.
SSPAI's Matrix community dispatch on Oct. 13, 2026, restarts its weekly roundup with quarterly creator awards, hands-on reviews of the Xiaomi Watch S5 and Primaniacs' EVA perfume, and a reader vote on minimum phone storage.
Mitel Networks has launched Mitel Workforce Experience, a unified communications client that adapts to worker roles instead of devices. It targets non-deskbound and frontline employees with role-based plugins, flexible deployment and private push notifications, according to SiliconANGLE.
Bose has released $99/£99 Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds with ANC and an inline remote but no app, settings or AI. President Raza Haider tells TechRadar the product was inspired by a campus trend and growing privacy concerns, and says the U.S. presale sold out ahead of a Europe launch on October 15.
Addigy has announced its Intelligence Suite, aimed at bringing AI control to Apple devices, in a new episode of the Apple @ Work podcast. Jason Dettbarn of Addigy joined the show to discuss the product.
TFG London, owner of Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles, is investigating a cyber-attack on its UK websites and IT systems that may have compromised customer data, and has paused online orders as a precaution.