About Us

What this site is for

Oton Technology covers technology for people who have to make decisions about it. Not the launch theatre, not the quarterly narrative, but the part that lands on a desk: whether a chip shortage moves a delivery date, whether an update is safe to approve this week, whether a funding round changes who owns the software a business already depends on. We publish across artificial intelligence, crypto, phones, gaming, security, apps, gadgets, computers, social platforms and software, because those beats stopped being separate some time ago and pretending otherwise produces worse reporting.

The standard we hold

A technology story is worth publishing when a reader can act on it or is measurably better informed for having read it. That rules out a great deal. It rules out repackaged press releases, benchmark charts with no methodology behind them, and the endless speculation about unannounced hardware that fills the gap between real events. What it leaves is harder to produce and, we think, the only thing worth the reader’s time.

Every article states what is known, what is claimed and who is claiming it. Where a company is the only source for a number, we say so rather than letting the figure stand as though it were independently established. Where we do not know something material, the article says that too. A gap stated plainly is more useful than a gap papered over.

How we work

Reporting starts from primary material wherever it exists: the filing, the changelog, the advisory, the court document, the specification sheet, the transcript. Secondary coverage is used to find stories, not to source them. When a claim originates with a vendor, an analyst firm or an anonymous supply chain report, the article attributes it to that origin and describes what that origin can and cannot reasonably know.

We publish quickly when speed serves the reader, which on a security advisory or an active outage it does. We publish slowly when the story needs it. Nothing is published on a schedule for its own sake.

What we will not do

We do not accept payment for coverage, and we do not allow advertisers any sight of editorial work before it appears. We do not write about a product because a company asked us to. We do not run sponsored articles dressed as reporting. Where a relationship exists that a reader might reasonably want to know about, it is disclosed in the article itself rather than buried in a policy page.

We also do not chase the parts of this industry that reward noise. Rumour cycles, engagement bait and manufactured controversies are left alone.

Corrections and contact

Mistakes get made. When one is found, it is fixed in the open and labelled, not quietly edited away. Our Corrections Policy sets out exactly how, and our Editorial Standards explain the rules the newsroom works to. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will deal with it. The contact page explains how to reach the desk and what to expect.