Boox Go 10.3 Gen II Lumi: One-minute review

As far as epaper writing tablets go, Boox has some of the most versatile options thanks to their Android-based operating systems, and the Boox Go 10.3 (Gen II) Lumi is arguably the best of them despite its rather mouthful of a name — I’m just going to call it the ‘Lumi’ from here on in.

I was already a fan of the original model, calling the reMarkable dupe a pleasure to use in my Boox Go 10.3 review — and by just adding a light and making the battery consumption more efficient, the Chinese ereader maker has made the Gen II model better.

Despite the screen being a touch slower than I’ve experienced with other devices like the 2024 and 2025 Kindle Scribes, the light adds a lot of contrast to the screen, making it easier to read on, whether that’s an ebook or a handwritten note. Now, I have to mention that there is a Gen II without a frontlight as well but, in my opinion, having the screen lit up just makes the epaper writing tablet that much more usable in any situation. With a frontlight, it also becomes a true Kindle Scribe alternative — again, thanks to its Android-based OS that gives the user access to the Google Play Store.

However, the aforementioned slow display is a disappointment as every time I woke up the Lumi to read or write, there would be a couple of screen refreshes (clearly marked as ‘Rendering’ when directly waking up to the native library application) before it settled down. Page turns, though, are fine but, again, Amazon’s 2025 Kindle Scribes are just that little bit faster at this as well. Long story short, screen performance doesn’t seem to have improved over the Gen I Go 10.3.

While I can live with the slower screen, I can’t fathom why Boox would retire the stylus that came with the original Go 10.3 as it was a lot better than the supplied InkSense Plus pen. The new stylus isn’t as smooth to write with, and is heavier, detracting from the all-important writing experience.

So as much as I’d love to say the Lumi is an improvement over its predecessor — and it is in a couple of ways — it just seems like Boox has taken two steps forward (with the frontlight and battery life) but one step back with the stylus.

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Boox Go 10.3 Gen II Lumi review: price & availability

• Announced March 2026
• List price: $449.99 / £429.99 / AU$729
• Available directly from the Boox Shop and third-party retailers

With the addition of the frontlight, the price of the Boox Go 10.3 (Gen II) Lumi is a lot higher than the launch price of the original Go 10.3 — you’re looking at shelling out $449.99 / £429.99 / AU$729 for the former, which is about $70 / £50 / AU$120 more than what the latter was when it was released in 2024.

That’s quite steep, although considering how expensive every bit of tech is getting thanks to RAM shortages, I’m not really surprised. It’s still competitively priced considering the 3rd-generation Amazon Kindle Scribe (2025 release with frontlight) retails for $499 / £449.99 / AU$849 for the 32GB flavor, while you get double the storage with the Lumi. Throw in the versatility of Android and it’s arguably better value (even compared to any of the reMarkables), but given its overall performance and user experience compared to the competition, I’d be hesitant to recommend it.

If the frontlight isn’t important, you can opt for the Gen II version without it, which will set you back $419.99 / £399.99 / AU$689. Prices for both Boox Gen II devices include the InkSense Plus stylus and a magnetic sleep case.

• Value score: 4 / 5

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Boox Go 10. Gen II Lumi review: specs

Display type:	Undisclosed E Ink Carta HD panel
Screen size:	10.3 inches
Resolution:	300ppi
Processor:	2GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
Frontlight:	Yes (warm and cold)
Storage:	64GB (non-expandable)
Battery:	3,700mAh
Speaker:	Dual (stereo)
Water protection:	None
Software:	Android 15
Connectivity:	Wi-Fi (2.4GHz + 5GHz); Bluetooth 5.1 USB-C
File support:	20 document, 4 image, 2 audio
Dimensions:	235 x 183 x 4.8mm (9.3 x 7.2 x 0.19 inches)
Weight:	364g (without case and stylus)

Boox Go 10. Gen II Lumi review: design & display

• Good-looking, lightweight epaper tablet, but clunky stylus
• 10.3-inch E Ink display with good contrast
• Textured rear panel adds good grip

With its eggshell-white body and metallic trim, I thought the first-gen Boox Go 10.3 was a pretty tablet, so I’m glad to see that the Gen II version hasn’t been changed — except for a slightly more textured rear panel that affords a little more grip, which is important for a slim device like the Go series slates. I should note here that both Gen II Go 10.3 tablets are identical physically but, without LEDs on the unlit version, it’s about 14g (0.5oz) lighter.

While the slimness doesn’t make for fantastic ergonomics, the Lumi weighing only 364g is, in fact, lighter than the Gen 1 model that tipped the scales at 375g without screen lights. It is about 0.2mm thicker than the previous Go 10.3, but that’s neither here nor there.

It’s still a beautiful device and, despite the thinness, there are dual speakers on either side of the USB-C port on the bottom edge, as does a mic. The only button is for power/sleep on the top edge. There’s no microSD tray here, though, for additional storage. One larger bezel allows plenty of room for your hand, although holding such a slim device, no matter how light, isn’t necessarily ergonomic. If you add in the sleep case, however, it just becomes heavier.

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I should talk about the case here, really quick — it’s a faux suede cover that unfortunately comes with the removable flap that I utterly detest. The brown suede material starts to lose its luster within days of use, so I can’t attest to its longevity, but I can’t fathom why Boox has to make the magnetic flap removable. This has been the case with the last few Boox devices I’ve tested and I find it rather annoying — the magnet is quite strong and the flap tends to entirely come away when you unfold it to close the case or secure the stylus to the side of the tablet.

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Speaking of which, the magnetic hold of the stylus is good but, as with nearly every such device, it’s not strong enough to keep the pen secure during travel, so you do need to depend on the case.

Boox has also changed the pen, now offering the InkSense Plus stylus that has a thicker tip that just isn’t as smooth as the previous stylus. It’s also slightly heavier than the older pen, which makes it feel clunky in the hand that, in my opinion, doesn’t lend itself well to controlled mark making on the screen. And as I’ve discussed elsewhere, the stylus can make or break the user experience for epaper tablets. Sadly Boox is moving away from using EMR support on its screens (just like reMarkable), so you can’t use a third-party pen on the Lumi.

Boox hasn’t revealed what E Ink screen technology it’s using here, but the 10.3-inch display isn’t bad, with a 300ppi resolution. It’s not as yellow (warm) as I’ve seen on other Boox devices and the frontlight’s incremental adjustments for both brightness and temperature are excellent, adding wonderful contrast to the text or writing on the screen that makes the Lumi a far better reading tablet than its predecessor.

• Design & display score: 4 / 5

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Boox Go 10. Gen II Lumi review: Software

• Runs a custom Android 15-based operating system
• A relatively clean user interface, but it takes getting used to
• Plenty of good native apps, but access to the Google Play Store makes it very versatile

Where the original Go 10.3 released in 2024 was using Android 12, the Lumi (and its cheaper sibling) have been upgraded to Android 15, although the software is a very trimmed-down custom version of Google’s operating system. You still get unfettered access to the Google Play Store, so you can, in theory, use any Android app, but e-ink tablets weren’t meant for streaming content or playing games on.

That said, nearly every Boox device comes pre-loaded with native apps that are quite good in their own right and have been improved over time as well, making them more streamlined than before. That’s not to say the UX is easy — if you’ve never used a Boox device before, it will take time to wrap your head around it all as there are still little adjustments that are hidden in sub menus.

What’s different with the Go series compared to other Boox tablets is the home screen navigation — the main menu is arranged vertically on the left, with the Library being your default view. You can change the main menu items in Settings, though, either adding or removing applications.

Customizing the user experience has never been Boox’s problem, which means you can choose between several options for System Display or Gestures, and even tweak individual native apps as you see fit — even the NaviBall is optional to use and can be configured to trigger a plethora of functions.

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The Control Center hasn’t changed much over the last couple of years, but I’m still not sure access to an AI assistant is necessary on an e-ink device, but perhaps some power users would appreciate it.

As always, you can sign into a fair few cloud services, including Google Drive and Dropbox, get full support for EverNote and OneNote, or download any other productivity application you might need, but keep in mind that not all third-party apps will be optimized for this device.

One of the things I really like about Boox’s premium note-taking tablets is OTG (on the go) support. This means I can plug in an external hard drive or portable SSD directly into the USB-C port to transfer files. In fact, it’s what I predominantly use even though BooxDrop is a handy app for cloud transfer. I don’t even bother signing into my Google Drive account on a Boox these days.

There really isn’t very much to complain about from a software standpoint — it’s the writing experience that takes a tumble here.

• Software score: 4.5 / 5

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Boox Go 10. Gen II Lumi review: User experience

• Good screen contrast with lights makes for a lovely reading experience
• The supplied pen, however, isn’t as nice as the older version for writing

A device might look lovely and come with the nicest software, but ultimately its user experience determines its value. And that’s the case with the Go 10.3 Gen II Lumi — it does a lot right, like its reading experience is lovely, but its main functionality of writing is a little bit of a letdown.

Reading

Like I said, reading on the Lumi is lovely — the frontlight makes the text stand out, adding contrast where previously, on the Gen 1, it was disappointing. Page turns are quick enough too with the screen quite responsive to taps and gestures.

And yet I feel it’s a little slow for an epaper tablet that was released in 2026. For example, every time I woke up the Lumi during my months-long testing, it took a while to ‘render’ an ebook from its native library app.

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It very much seemed like it was refreshing the app twice before finally rendering the page. On the other hand, the 3rd-generation Kindle Scribe released in 2025 takes a second or two to open but doesn’t flicker or ‘refresh’ the page — it’s a lot smoother on waking up. As are the Kobo Libra Colour and Kindle Paperwhite from 2024.

Boox doesn’t reveal what E Ink screen tech its using, but other than its slight slowness on waking up, I can’t complain about the reading experience. All books and images rendered on screen have been sharp and clear, particularly with the frontlight on.

Writing

The same kind of contrast with the frontlight on is available on the Notes app too where handwriting looks sharp and clear on screen. However, the physical act of writing on the Lumi isn’t as good as it has been on the Gen 1 because Boox decided to change the stylus.

The previous pen had a thinner nib that moved over the screen quite well. The new InkSense Plus stylus is heavier and the slightly thicker tip feels like it needs to be dragged to make a mark — it feels clunkier in comparison.

Boox has also stepped away from using EMR screens, which means you can’t swap that pen out for another. I tried using one of Boox’s own older pens (used to be supplied with the Note series) and it didn’t work. That’s a real shame as writing is the Lumi’s principal function and the experience of doing so is disappointing.

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The native Notes application, though, is full featured — in fact, for the average user it’s probably overkill — and would be ideal for students, teachers and researchers.

• User experience score: 3.5 / 5

Boox Go 10. Gen II Lumi review: Performance

• Generally good performance except on waking up
• A lot of ghosting visible, especially in the Notes app
• Exceptional battery life for an Android device

The Lumi's overall performance is a mixed bag. While it uses a better chipset (Qualcomm Snapdragon 690) compared to the original Go 10.3 (Snapdragon 680), it hasn't really made much of a dent in the speed with which the Lumi performs the tasks at hand.

That's not a complaint — it's an observation. However, Amazon's newest Kindle Scribes are just that much faster at things, like page turns are so quick they barely register that they've moved and the lag between pen input and the mark on screen is barely discernible. On both counts the Lumi is just that smidgeon slower that you can notice if you use it side by side with the 2025 Kindle Scribe (3rd generation).

The slow waking up of the screen is also something that has bothered me, and I've already mentioned how disappointing the writing experience is, but I'm also surprised at how much ghosting there still is on Boox devices, including the Lumi, something Amazon has managed to completely eliminate on its Kindles. You'll be able to notice the ghosting on nearly every single image I have in this review (including in the gallery below).

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Where the Lumi really shines (pardon the pun) is with battery life. It still uses the same 3,700mAh battery pack that was in the Gen 1 model and yet whatever software adjustments Boox has made has pushed battery life to weeks rather than days. It's the first Android digital notebook I've used to have such an impressive battery life, one that can match the Kindle Scribes, albeit dependent on use.

In my case, an hour of reading and 30 minutes of writing per day gave me 17 days of use with frontlight at medium brighness and a similar warmth setting, plus Wi-Fi on at all times (but not Bluetooth). Using cloud services and didn't make any dent on the battery usage, although excessive online browsing did drain a little extra but not by all that much.

Topping up was average, with the 3,700mAh pack going from 19% to full in just under two hours when plugged into a wall charger via a high-quality USB-C cable.

• Performance score: 3.5 / 5

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Should I buy the Onyx Boox Go 10.3 (Gen II) Lumi

Attribute	Notes	Score
Value	It's cheaper than the 3rd-gen Kindle Scribe, but you'll get better performance elsewhere	4 / 5
Design & display	It's a beautiful device with reMarkable 2 vibes, and a frontlight makes a world of difference. However, the display just seems to lack the oomph factor I've seen in newer epaper tablets.	4 / 5
Software & apps	With an Android-based software allowing for versatility, and a nicer user interface than previous Boox UIs, it's hard to fault the Lumi. It's not perfect, but it ain't bad.	4 / 5
Writing & productivity	It's fantastic to read on, with brilliant contrast when the light is on, but the supplied pen is a major letdown when it comes to writing.	3.5 / 5
Reading	Without a frontlight, it's not the ideal ereader	3.5 / 5
Performance	On its own, the Lumi performs well for most users, but it's hard to give it full praise when there are faster E Ink displays being used on competitive digital notebooks, but the battery life is the best for an Android epaper tablet.	3.5 / 5

Buy it if...

You want a thin, light digital notebook with frontlight

There are more epaper writing tablets without a frontlight now than with, and trust me when I saw that can make a difference to usability, especially at nighttime and in bright sunlight.

You want the versatility of the Google Play Store on your digital notebook

It's not the only Android-toting epaper writing tablet, but it's well priced compared to some of the competition.

Don't buy it if...

You'll be doing a lot more writing than reading

The Lumi's main function is as a writing tablet and, given the disappointing stylus supplied with it, it's hard to recommend when there are competitors offering a better experience.

You want the best performance out of your digital notebook

It's not that the Lumi is bad; it's just that there are better options out there that have more responsive screens with next-to-no ghosting.

You need plenty of storage

64GB is a very good amount of storage that you'll get on the Lumi, but power users with large files saved on the device might need more, and there's no microSD card tray here. For that, I'd recommend Boox's Note series over the Go.

Also consider

I like the Lumi, but I don't I love it. If, like me, you'd be keen to check out other options, the two below are the ones I'd recommend, both of which are cheaper but aren't Android based.

Amazon Kindle Scribe (2nd gen)

It might have been succeeded by the 3rd-gen Scribe that's bigger and better, but it's still available to buy and still makes for an excellent e-ink writing tablet with a lovely screen and, importantly, regularly discounted now since it's an older model.
Read our full Amazon Kindle Scribe (2024) review for more details

reMarkable Paper Pure

It's not as full featured as an Android-based epaper writing tablet, but this reMarkable offers you a distraction-free slate to unleash your creativity. It's essentially the reMarkable 2 in a new body with 32GB of storage.
Read our in-depth reMarkable Paper Pure review to learn more

How I tested the Onyx Boox Go 10.3 (Gen II) Lumi

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I've tested a range of ereaders and epaper writing tablets for TechRadar, so I'm well suited to compare the Boox Go 10.3 (Gen II) Lumi with its competitors.

As with all such devices I've previously tested, the first thing I did with the Lumi was to sign into the Google Play Store and down the Kindle and Kobo apps. I then used OTG support to transfer ebooks to the device directly from a portable SSD via the USB-C port, but I also used BooxDrop and cloud transfer from Google Drive to test various services.

The Lumi then became my daily ereader and note taker for 4 weeks, using it an average of 2-3 hours a day to read and write. I'm not an artist, so drawing was out of the question.

Out of curiosity, I also downloaded Geekbench 6 to benchmark the CPU (the app is available on the Play Store). I sideloaded a few MP3 files to test the onboard speakers.

Read more about how we test

[First published July 2026]

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The disclosure-to-exploit window used to be measured in weeks; for weaponized vulnerabilities, it now runs in hours. Out-of-cycle patches that used to be exceptional have become routine across enterprise environments of meaningful size.

This pattern now has a name. You might have heard it already: the Patch Apocalypse. Sounds a bit dramatic, but the impact warrants the drama.

It describes something measurable — software flaws are being discovered, disclosed and weaponized faster than most patch management programs were built to handle.

Several factors are converging at once. Frontier AI models are accelerating vulnerability research — Anthropic's Project Glasswing and comparable initiatives have produced thousands of high-severity findings in compressed timeframes.

Attackers are using the same class of tooling to reverse-engineer patches far faster than previously thought possible. Public disclosures are arriving on shorter cycles.

For any team responsible for keeping production systems patched, this all translates to a backlog that grows faster than the available maintenance management windows can drain it. And “drain” is the right word here, because that’s also the impact on the team: it’s very, very draining.

This is far from an anecdotal observation. The workforce cost is already visible.

Recent UK data shows what’s happening at the personnel level: 42% of UK IT professionals report high levels of stress from their jobs, and 76% say that stress is affecting their physical and mental health. 30% report difficulty concentrating, 35% report trouble sleeping and 30% report increased anxiety and depression.

Why traditional patching is breaking down

Patch management was built around predictability. Vendor releases on a known schedule. A defined maintenance window. Manual testing in a staging environment. Communication, approval, deployment, verification.

The model worked when most enterprise software was released on predictable monthly or quarterly schedules, when threat actors needed weeks to weaponize a disclosed CVE, and when out-of-cycle patches were rare enough that a program could absorb them without restructuring. When those scenarios change, the model’s validity changes.

Two structural changes have done most of the work:

Volume is the first. When a single AI model can autonomously surface thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers — as Project Glasswing did within weeks of its April launch — the downstream effect is more CVEs arriving sooner, with public patches available, all flowing into the same backlog the IT team was already trying to clear.

Velocity has compounded that. Attackers have access to the same class of capability. Patches can be reverse-engineered in as little as 72 hours, sometimes far less. Any system unpatched in that window is exposed to working exploits.

Combine the two, and a patch program that was already running near capacity has to absorb a step change in volume, with shorter deadlines and less predictability about when the next critical disclosure will land. That’s a lot of pressure, and it’s what’s driving the stress data up.

Automation is taking center stage

As an operating model, automation is far better-equipped to survive a Patch Apocalypse than previous iterations. Three important principles underscore the model’s efficacy:

1. Continuous, risk-based triage. The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list is the non-negotiable top tier. An Exploit Prediction Scoring System threshold appropriate to the environment can drive priority for everything else. Below that threshold, work waits for the maintenance ring.

2. Automated test and deployment rings. The test cycle has to compress to fit the exploit window. Even with top-tier skills and best intentions, a human checklist cannot move at that speed. The familiar sequence — test ring, early-adopter ring, broad production, mission-critical — has to be instrumented and capable of running without manual coordination at every stage.

3. Closed-loop verification. A patch isn’t deployed until the install is confirmed on every endpoint, and a CVE isn’t closed until a rescan confirms it. Compliance evidence is produced as a byproduct of the workflow, not assembled from a spreadsheet the week before an audit.

Industry data points in the same direction. 67% of IT professionals say AI tools and automation will free up their time for more interesting, fulfilling work. 66% say the same tools will help them provide better service to end users. Less than one in three organizations report having fully embedded automation in their IT workflows.

Who’s paying the cost

Any cost considerations regarding patch programs need to take the human cost into account. A patch program running on legacy assumptions will absorb the Patch Apocalypse by burning out the team running it. The stress figures are showing the early signs. The downstream cost includes attrition, error rates, lost productivity and the slow erosion of the institutional knowledge that holds a program together.

On the other hand, programs where automation runs the workflow have the potential to absorb the same volume without requiring the team to absorb it personally. Continuous prioritization, instrumented rings and verification embedded in the workflow take variable, manual work out of the critical path.

Two-thirds of IT professionals see AI and automation as a route to better work — fewer frantic escalations and more time on the problems that need human judgement.

The Patch Apocalypse is very much here, and is poised to reach every program. Is the workflow underneath built to absorb the impact? If not, consider the whole scope of what — and who — is at stake.

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• Marantz unveils replacements for the acclaimed PM6007 and CD6007 amp and CD player
• Amp has HDMI ARC and high-quality Bluetooth streaming, plus phono MM input
• From $750 / £499 / AU$1,000

One of the things I love about quality hi-fi is that it's often made to be a treat for your eyes as well as your ears. The new Marantz Model 70 integrated amp and CD 70 CD player definitely come into that category: I think they look stunning.

I'm probably a little bit biased because my CD player is a Marantz (the CD6007 that this one makes obsolete, no less) and I love it dearly. But both new models promise serious substance to match their style.

The Model 70 and CD 70 are the successors to the acclaimed PM6007 and the aforementioned CD6007, and Marantz promises that both deliver what the brand calls its signature "warm, detailed and deeply musical" sound.

But there are significant upgrades that should make this new generation an even more luxurious listen.

Marantz Model 70 and CD 70: key features and pricing

The Marantz Model 70 is an integrated amp with HDMI ARC and Bluetooth, with the latter offering transmission and reception via aptX Adaptive, aptX HD, AAC and SBC. In addition to the usual audio connections there are preamplifier and subwoofer outputs.

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The 50-watt Class A/B amplifier features an upgraded topology with an enhanced power supply and larger toroidal transformer, which Marantz says delivers greater dynamic expression, improved speaker control and increased authority across all kinds of speakers. It includes a high-quality MM phono stage for your turntable and a high-performance ES Sabre DAC for digital audio sources.

The Marantz CD 70 features the same DAC as the Model 70 plus additional proprietary HDAM (High Definition Amplifier Module) circuitry to deliver "detailed, expressive and emotionally engaging reproduction of compact discs, extracting every nuance from treasured music collections," Marantz says. There's a USB-A port on the front for your digital files, and support for hi-res formats including FLAC HD, ALAC, AIFF and DSD.

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As with the Model 70 amp, the circuitry has been optimized to reduce noise and preserve detail; there's an upgraded power supply, "strategically deployed" copper hardware and a double-layered chassis base with rigid isolation feet.

As with their predecessors, the Model 70 and CD 70 aren't terrifyingly expensive. The official price of the CD 70 compact disc player is $750 / £499 / AU$1,000, while the Model 70 integrated amp is £749 / AU$1,455 (no US price was given, but based on the UK/AU price differences from the CD 70, we'd assume around $1,100).

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The global digital economy runs on a thriving ecosystem of third-party vendors, enabling organizations to scale and innovate faster than they possibly could do on their own.

This digital ecosystem is teeming with software suppliers, not just business software that you can buy but also a vast array of software libraries that are embedded in third-party products.

Speed, however, can sometimes be the enemy of risk, as many organizations have not adequately validated whether these third-party technologies are sufficiently safeguarded against cyber threats and other digital risk.

So, while software is a great enabler, it also brings risk, given that it often is built with frameworks and libraries that are not known or well supported.

Consider that companies employ an average of 106 SaaS apps within their IT environments , and the picture becomes quite clear: software supply chain security is a serious concern.

It’s no wonder that half (51%) of participants in the latest Supply Chain Risk Survey ranked software vulnerabilities in supplier products as the most disruptive cybersecurity threat to their organization’s supply chain, behind only data breaches (64%) and malware or ransomware (52%).

An ever-changing attack surface that comprises cloud services, micro-services, APIs, SaaS platforms, third‑party services and now AI agents has expanded well beyond what once was an understood perimeter before widespread digital transformation took hold.

How secure is your own extended digital ecosystem? If this question makes your heart race, then take a closer look at three key considerations for addressing software supply chain security.

1. Visibility: Determine what’s actually in your multi-layered supply chain

Since the software supply chain is part of a vast, interconnected digital ecosystem, organizations likely do not have full visibility of what and who make up their third-party providers. Recent high-profile incidents have signaled just how fragile supply chains can be.

Assuring business continuity requires organizations to scrutinize partners before placing such deep trust in them. That effort starts with knowing who is in your interconnected digital ecosystem before you can start to manage the risk.

Understanding risk across a supply chain is conceptually easy, but it is practically difficult. While clearly outlining security parameters and requirements in supplier contracts is a great starting point, it is not enough, as contracting is generally a point-in-time activity and should be paired with monitoring. You must be able to see and measure software assets so you can better manage them.

After all, you can’t protect what you can’t see, and many businesses still don’t have a complete, accurate asset inventory, meaning that their vulnerability exposure is incomplete. If you don’t know what systems, apps, devices and libraries are in your environment, vulnerability management is supposition, inference and guesswork.

It is crucial to understand what your suppliers are doing both upstream and who you supply downstream, because their decisions are now part of your organization’s own risk profile. Software often presents the biggest blind spots in asset management, thanks in large part to a lack transparency in software build and dependencies, shadow IT, shadow AI and unmanaged endpoints.

An organization's exposure is tied directly to the security posture of every supplier they rely on. Attackers know this, increasingly targeting upstream or downstream partners. You can secure your own environment perfectly and still be vulnerable through others’ oversight. Tools that can profile, quantify and score risk across the supply chain, therefore, are essential, as is tooling that monitors for unusual activity.

2. Vigilance: Prioritize the security of AI integrations across your software supply chain

Threats can lurk anywhere and everywhere across your supply chain. But there’s a new kid in town: AI. The software supply chain has expanded to include the unique risks of AI ecosystem, such as reliance on external foundational models and highly connected agents.

This escalating integration of AI tools makes the multi-faceted software supply chain even more of a concern. Cybersecurity professionals who participated in the latest Cybersecurity Workforce Study revealed a troubling AI-related security event their organization experienced in that prior year: data poisoning (cited by 11%).

Data poisoning happens when bad actors intentionally insert corrupted, misleading or malicious data into the training dataset of a machine-learning model. Even a small amount of poisoned data can change the model’s behavior, in turn resulting in misclassifications, degraded accuracy or malicious outcomes. So suddenly that seemingly helpful ChatBot that is embedded in your CRM, CMS or other purpose-driven enterprise software may not be so friendly after all!

Indeed, organizations simply have little / no control over the software that suppliers are using, making it much more difficult to ensure vulnerabilities are identified before widespread rollout, as well as supported and patched once deployed, but they do have control over scrutinizing suppliers.

Therefore, the people on your security team and the processes they follow matter more than ever. Technology accelerates both sides of the fight, so your real advantage comes from having skilled practitioners who understand how AI changes your risk profile, attack surface and can put the right controls in place to compensate.

Cybersecurity professionals who specialize in software supply chain security can quantify the risk of model poisoning / steering, prompt injection and model inversion, and assess the inherent bias of pre-trained open-source models, protecting the integrity of software and services from upstream vulnerabilities. Such a holistic approach ensures that every component, from third-party libraries to the training data itself, meets the organization’s security and ethical standards.

In addition, reviewing and evaluating vendor agreements is an important task for cybersecurity teams and stakeholders. Think of these disciplined actions as a necessary stress-test meant to identify and address weaknesses and changing needs. A good contract with clear deliverables and expectations is part of a cybersecurity defensive strategy alongside your people and your defense technologies and ongoing monitoring of systems and services.

3. Validation: Adopt skills frameworks and codes of practice for software supply chain security

No organization must stand up against the heightened threat of software supply chain security alone. Take advantage of existing guidance such as the U.K.’s Software Security Code of Practice to follow when you’re trying to batten the software hatches at your own organization.

Not only does this code support software vendors as they adopt secure software lifecycle development practices; it also supports software customers in mitigating the likelihood and impact of software supply chain attacks.

In addition to following code and other guidance frameworks, organizations can look to skills frameworks and vendor-neutral certifications to validate that their cybersecurity professionals demonstrate certain skills needed to build and strengthen supply chain security and resilience.

Skills development in the disciplines of governance, risk and compliance (GRC), secure software development and AI skills better enable cybersecurity and risk professionals to make informed decisions regarding software supply chain security and risk management.

From complexity to better security

Supply chains are complex, longer than you think and multidimensional. Organizations must place much greater focus on stress-testing the resilience of software suppliers and continuously evaluating exposure.

This approach goes well beyond being careful about what software makes it all the way to procurement. The potentially more damaging layer to address in the macro supply chain involves the embedded software and integrated AI tools that other suppliers are using.

The question is not whether your digital supply chain will face disruption. It's whether you have the visibility, vigilance and validation to operate when it does. That’s resilience: the north star of software supply chain security. Without question, transparency has to run through supply chains instead of just sitting inside organizations.

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AI investment is accelerating across enterprises.

Budgets are increasing, boardrooms are asking hard questions, and the answer they’re getting back is token costs, prompt counts, and copilot deployment numbers.

Those aren't business metrics. They're activity logs.

Most organizations have settled on those numbers because they’re easy to track and show up well in reports. The problem is that those numbers measure the activity, not the results.

They show how much AI is being used, not whether the business is doing better since implementing it.

This is where token maxxing starts. It happens when organizations begin rewarding those who use AI the most, rather than what it actually delivers.

By optimizing for the wrong thing, we’re quietly setting AI programs up to fail.

When metrics become the mission

There’s a simple truth in business: people optimize for what gets measured, and we’re seeing that with AI right now. Understandably, because teams begin to generate more output when that is what leadership tends to see and reward.

Over time, the measure becomes the mission, and the focus on real outcomes starts to drift. The result is a surge in output that looks impressive on paper but has little to do with faster decisions or better products.

Teams with the highest usage or spend start to become the benchmark that others feel they need to match. But metrics like token spend should be evaluated the same way any other business investment is.

If we committed the same budget to a new sales tool or a go-to-market campaign, the first question from the board would be: how did revenue increase, and did it move the business forward in a measurable way?

High token consumption with no clear line to a business outcome is not a success story. Without that connection, it is just an additional cost. Meanwhile, the organizations that figure this out first will move faster with less spend — and that gap compounds.

AI did not create the problem; it exposed it

We’ve seen this pattern before. In the early days of cloud computing, companies moved fast and invested heavily without rethinking how work was structured. Costs went up, but the outcomes didn’t always follow.

That wasn't a cloud problem. And this isn't an AI problem. It never was.

The reality is that most companies already had a structural issue long before AI arrived. The work that matters most doesn’t live in a single system. It stretches across teams, tools and departments, held together by people stitching context together and filling in the gaps between systems. That’s always been the case. What AI has done is expose it, and this is where the problem runs deeper than just metrics.

AI makes individuals faster within the tools they already use. But when that work still sits inside disconnected systems, speed doesn’t fix the problem; it makes the gaps more visible. Teams move faster, but not necessarily together, and that’s why usage metrics can look so strong. More prompts, more output, more activity. On the surface, it looks like progress, but without a clear connection to outcomes, that activity can quickly become noise.

The problem isn’t just that we’re measuring the wrong thing. It’s also that most organizations don’t have a clear view of outcomes in the first place.

What good measurement looks like

Stop asking how much AI is being used and start asking what has changed because of it. A few shifts that will follow:

Output volume does not equal business value. Treat the two as interchangeable, and your AI program is already starting to drift.

Start with the outcome, not the tool. Instead of asking, “How many prompts did we run?” ask, “What did we achieve?”

Measure what crosses teams. If impact stays inside a single function, you have a useful tool — not a competitive advantage.

Here are a couple of examples: for engineering teams, this could mean focusing less on lines of code or pull requests and more on what actually reaches production and delivers value to customers. For marketing, it might be focusing on whether campaigns launch faster or land better.

Ultimately, AI that makes one person’s morning easier is a useful tool, but real value comes from AI that changes how the whole company gets work done. Without that, you end up with intelligent tools that operate in isolation. Helpful in moments but limited in impact.

Redefine what good looks like

Right now, most of the AI conversation is still focused on individual productivity — how much faster one person can write, code, analyze, or create. That matters. But it’s only part of the story.

The bigger opportunity sits at the organizational level and looks at how work actually moves across teams, systems and the company as a whole. AI can absolutely improve how businesses operate, but only if we are willing to ask harder questions about what we are actually measuring and why.

The companies that pull ahead won’t be the ones using AI the most. They’ll be the ones who changed what they measure when AI showed up. That’s the only metric that matters.

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Dyson’s Airwrap line of hair multi-stylers and dryers revolutionised the hair care market by showing that you don’t need to curl hair with direct extreme heat, and instead use high-speed airflow to achieve a similar result.

Of course, innovative tech rarely comes cheap, especially from a prestige brand like Dyson. The most recent Airwrap Co-anda 2x sells for a whopping AU$999, and the Airwrap i.d. isn’t far off at AU$849.

If you’re in the market for one but would love to avoid shelling out that much cash, Amazon has the Airwrap Origin discounted by 39% off for Prime Day to just AU$388. The best part is, the discount isn't exclusive to Amazon Prime members!

The Dyson Airwrap Origin is a repackaged Dyson Airwrap 2022 with only the basic attachments — loop brush, fast dryer and a 40mm long barrel. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as you can just buy the ones you actually need and the others won’t just be sitting unused. Use the code DYSON10 at checkout to get an extra AU$10 off.View Deal

Other than the lower price, there are yet more advantages to getting the Airwrap Origin over its more expensive siblings.

The Origin uses purely manual tactile buttons to operate and you don’t have to worry about the device’s Bluetooth connection to your phone accidentally dropping out while styling (the newer ones have a companion app that can automatically set the ideal wrapping, styling and cold shot timings specific to your hair). You also have complete control, where you can manually override the speed and temperature as needed, instead of the automatic programming in the newer Airwraps.

The Airwrap Origin also now has the longer 40mm barrel attachment that measures 18.5cm to accommodate medium-to-long hair better, compared to the shorter 13cm barrel from its initial release.

While it’s tempting to go all-out on the Airwrap ID or even the Co-anda 2x, it’s hard to overlook the Airwrap Origin at this price, especially when you don’t need all the attachments bundled with the newer models.

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Driving the length of Britain is an expensive endurance test that isn’t overly kind to the environment, but this week I helped do it for free, minus the emissions.

A standard Renault 4, the kind of car parked on any suburban street, has covered the circa 870 miles from Land's End to John o'Groats without taking a single unit from the grid or burning a drop of petrol. Every electron came from the sun. The same journey in a petrol car works out at £120.48 in fuel (around $160 / AU$230), or £240 there and back (about $320 / AU$460), while the Renault's bill was nothing.

This was the 'Easee Sun Run', a bid to drive a standard production EV the entire length of the country on solar power alone for the first time. The car was the £27,000 (about $36,190 / AU$52,150) Renault 4 E-Tech ‘Plein Sud’ — French for ‘Due South’, and a small in-joke given it was going to be driven very much north. You can order one now, although it carries no solar panels of its own, a fact that baffled onlookers the whole way up.

The charger is an Easee smart charger you can fit at home, while this particular Renault also had a secret weapon. In the boot was a 300kWh battery pack built by OnBio from second-life cells, the sort pulled out of EVs that were damaged before they ever reached a forecourt. Think of it as an oversized power bank for devices thirstier than a smartphone.

Here comes the sun

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Power Logistics, a firm that normally keeps the lights on at festivals and 'Trooping the Colour', spent a week filling it from a solar farm before the off. "All of the energy we're using is for free," its director of operations Ian Peniston told me. "It's from the sun." Charged up, the pack holds enough to refill the little Renault six times over.

The man who dreamed up the record attempt is Jeremy Hart, an automotive adventurer who has driven a Land Rover to China, crossed America on dirt for sport, and installed the world's most remote public charger on St Helena.

The idea arrived after finding himself in the Canadian Arctic, charging an EV at minus 40C. If solar worked there, he reasoned, could it work here with the infrastructure we already have? The hard part was never the driving. It was finding solar farms that could promise the power going into the car was from the sun and nothing else, rather than the usual blend that flows off any site wired to the grid.

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The route doubled as a tour of British solar at work. It began in Cornwall at Roskilly's, an organic farm and ice-cream parlor that runs on 316kW of panels and sent the car off with a tub of one-off "Easee peasy lemon squeezy" in the back. In Somerset, the convoy called at J B Wheaton & Sons, a haulage firm that laid down the UK's first commercial solar farm back in 2011, a 3.3MW array it built not to sell power but to wean its own lorries and sheds off a 38,000-liter diesel delivery every fortnight.

Whaley Bridge Cricket Club in the Peak District has run its bar and floodlights on 12kW of roof panels since 2021, proudly solar only. County Durham introduced Power Roll, which prints flexible, crisp-packet-thin solar film off a roll, light enough for the millions of roofs that cannot take the weight of glass and silicon.

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A few miles from Power Roll, Durham University's student team rolled out the eighth generation of its solar race car, four square meters of panels feeding a motor that sips 900W, about half a hairdryer.

Hand it the stored charge the Renault used to reach John o'Groats and, on the team's reckoning, the little racer would make it almost around the world. "We're a nation of inventors," Hart said. "The World Wide Web is ours, the jet engine was British. What happens quite often is that those innovations get picked up by other countries and commercialized." Solar, designed and printed in Britain, is the part he wants to keep here.

Hellbent on taking some of the glory, I joined for the final leg, Inverness up to the famous signpost at John o’Groats, and took my turn at the wheel. The brief was simple. Eco mode, hold to the limit, drive as you would on the school run. On a red-alert heatwave day, air conditioning running and four grown men aboard, the Renault did not grumble. We sat on a steady 243 miles of real-world range, roughly what Renault quotes, while the team averaged around 200 throughout.

Hart, who has covered the planet looking for motoring challenges, had strangely never driven his own country from top to bottom. "You realize what a beautiful place the UK is," he said. "It's only a thousand miles long, but there are some amazing roads. And if you can enjoy them in an EV, that's good, because otherwise you're throwing away all the joy of driving.”

Great Scott!

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The journey sprang one absurdity. A cattle grid being replaced in Yorkshire sent the team 25 miles out of their way, a fair detour to go around a hole in the road.

The east coast of Scotland, meanwhile, was drenched in sun, and somewhere along it, we even stumbled on a sheep with its head jammed in a stock fence. We stopped, worked it loose, and watched it trot back to two lambs that began feeding as if nothing had happened. At John o'Groats, the welcome was a knot of bemused tourists, some from as far as Hong Kong, and a Czech biker gang, most of them on Harleys, who could not quite take in what the car had just done.

The entire run needed about six full charges at four hours each, so call it 24 hours of charging against the 16 hours of driving the route takes. Over the whole run the car drew 276 kWh, every unit of it solar. The panels gathered 555 kWh along the way, near enough twice what the car used, so there was sun in hand to have turned around at John o'Groats and driven all the way back to Land's End.

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Gaps are also created by charge speed, not range. The Renault accepts a steady 11kW, but it’s short of what Easee's three-phase charger could push. Do this on a public network, Hart says, and you would win most of that time back. He proved it at the finish, plugging into a 50kW public charger, going for fish and chips, and returning to a full battery.

To keep the record clean, the team set itself a rule. They had to arrive with at least as much charge as they held when they took their first top-up, so nobody could claim a scrap of grid power had crept in before the start. That figure was 20 per cent. We rolled into John o'Groats with 28.

On the first morning in Cornwall, sea fog sat on the Lizard peninsula, the panels barely stirred, and the whole departure hung in the balance until the sun burned through. You notice your dependence on the light when there is no tank to fall back on. The same route in a small petrol car would have put around 78kg of CO2 into the air, more in anything larger. The Sun Run produced nothing worth counting.

What stayed with me while driving through the endlessly spectacular Highlands of Scotland was just how many homes had solar panels on their roofs. If the technology earns its keep in a country that spends half its winter in the dark, it earns it anywhere. Although it is just as well, the record attempt was intentionally scheduled to take place on the summer solstice to maximize daylight.

Electric feel

Gareth Simkins of the trade body Solar Energy UK puts the wider picture into perspective: On one April afternoon this year, solar met 46 per cent of Britain's electricity demand. A pyramid-shaped office in Edinburgh, visited earlier in the run, generates enough each year to send this Renault end-to-end 135 times.

"Electric vehicles and solar were made for each other," says Easee's chief executive, Anthony Fernandez. "I think this journey proves exactly that." His chief innovation officer, Kjetil Næsje, believes the challenge is to make them "talk better together", so the power reaching your car is the power you choose.

Full disclosure, you cannot yet pull into a solar farm and fill your boots, and Hart is the first to say so. "It's not really publicly possible to do what we've done yet," he told me. “But everyone wanted this to work, and I didn’t meet a single person who said 'This is a bad thing’." Fit your own panels and a home battery, and you are within reach of charging an EV on sunshine alone.

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The run also arrives as the UK government looks to legalize the plug-in solar kits that Germans have hung off their balconies for years, making your chase for the sun that bit easier.

There was a tidy symmetry waiting at the finish. The car reached John o'Groats on the evening Scotland met Brazil at the World Cup, and the village’s 8 Doors distillery had marked the same fixture with a limited 28-year-old single malt, the Seven Sons "Spirit of Brazil", drawn from a cask filled in 1998 when the sides last met. It sells for £240 (about $320 / AU$460), the same as the petrol we didn’t buy. A fitting prize, collected in person.

Hart has driven to China and across America and feels no need to repeat either. This one he rates differently. Crossing the whole country without paying a penny to move the car, he said, "is bonkers". Hard to argue, standing at the top of Britain with a full battery, a bottle of whisky, and nothing on the fuel receipt.

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• GDC Technology will install the world's largest cinema LED screen, a 30 m x 16 m curved wall-to-wall display in the Cinemagnum auditorium of Nuremberg's Cinecittà
• The display will offer a native 8K+ resolution, leveraging GDC's Tricorne Premium LED technology to ensure the wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling display offers a state-of-the-art experience to German cinemagoers
• Biggest upgrade is in the audio department: the micro-perforated, acoustically transparent panel design which puts speakers behind the LED wall, solving dialogue-localization problem

Hong Kong-based GDC Technology has been tasked with installing the world's largest LED cinema display in the Cinemagnum auditorium of the Cinecittà multiplex in Nuremberg, Germany.

The display, which offers a native 8K+ resolution, leverages GDC's Tricorne Premium LED technology to deliver a sharp image. With 44.1 million pixels, thanks to its use of Tricorne Premium LEDs with a 3.3mm pixel pitch, it offers over 33% more screen real estate than a traditional 8K display.

It is also considerably larger than most LED TVs, effectively offering the same surface area as ~700 50-inch or smaller models found in most households.

A massive audio-visual upgrade

While high-resolution LED displays significantly overhaul one's cinema experience, one could argue that GDC's largest cinema LED display deployment to date has a feature that sets it apart from legacy options: sound.

Cinema LED is not entirely a new concept; it has seen multiple entrants, including Samsung's Onyx, but GDC's achievement goes far beyond Samsung's approach of using a solid wall of emitters, which had immersion trade-offs.

GDC's Tricorne Premium LED incorporates micro-perforated LED panels that it describes as fully acoustically transparent, allowing stage speakers to be mounted directly behind the display, as in a traditional cinema, without compromising visual density or HDR performance.

“Perfect sound-from-picture synchronization and a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling canvas have always been the holy grail of LED cinema," noted GDC Technology founder and chief executive, Man Nang Chong.

"Tricorne Premium LED’s proprietary micro-perforated technology finally achieves both – delivering a fully immersive visual experience without sacrificing a single decibel of audio fidelity."

Tricorne Premium LED is hardly untested technology, however; GDC claims to control as much as 70% of the industry's LED cinema business and has stated that the tech has already been deployed in 25 locations worldwide.

Germany already has the world's largest permanent traditional movie screen: The Traumpalast Multiplex in Leonberg, Germany, features the world's largest IMAX screen, measuring a mammoth 38.8 meters by 21 meters (127 feet by 69 feet) and covering 814.8 square meters.

With the completion of this installation this year, Germany will hold records for both the largest cinema screen overall and the largest LED cinema screen alike.

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