January 2026

10W battery-powered speaker with wide dispersion Two channels, plenty of instrument ports, built-in effects and Bluetooth $199 / £169 (approx AU$339) Music industry legend Roland has announced a brand new model in its Cube Street range of portable speakers, and it delivers a very impressive specification at a very reasonable price. Although the Cube series

QD-EL / NanoLED TV promises exceptional brightness and color It uses self-emitting quantum dots – just like OLED, but better Quantum dot maker Nanosys says the technology could be ready by 2029 It is always wise to take technical predictions with a large grain of salt. But when the predictions are about TV technology and

Palo Alto Patched CVE-2026-0227, a DoS Vulnerability in GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal Vulnerability can force firewalls into maintenance mode; difficulty rated at 7.7/10 Cloud NGFW unaffected; patches required as no workarounds exist and no exploits have been reported yet Palo Alto says it has fixed a high-severity vulnerability in some of its products that allowed

Mullvad has shut down its OpenVPN servers completely Desktop users had already migrated to WireGuard-only connections Mullvad says the move allows for better performance and stability Mullvad’s long-planned transition away from OpenVPN is now coming to an end. As of today, all OpenVPN servers have been taken offline, meaning that connections still using the old