Category: Technology

MEMPHIS, TENN. — In a milestone that redefines the sheer physical scale of artificial intelligence development, Elon Musk’s xAI has officially brought Colossus 2 online.2 Confirmed on Saturday, January 17, 2026, the facility has become the first AI training cluster in the world to reach 1-gigawatt (GW) power capacity.3+1 The activation marks a significant leap […]

REDMOND, WA — Microsoft has officially entered the next frontier of retail with the debut of Copilot Checkout, a sophisticated conversational commerce tool designed to transform static e-commerce sites into interactive shopping experiences. Announced on January 14, 2026, the platform allows brands to deploy custom “shopping agents” that guide consumers from initial discovery to final […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Google DeepMind fundamentally shifted the landscape of AI-generated media with a major update to Veo 3.1. The latest iteration of Google’s flagship video model moves beyond experimental clips into the realm of professional production, introducing state-of-the-art 4K upscaling and a revolutionary “Ingredients to Video” workflow that […]

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that makes a victim’s data, system or device inaccessible. It locks the target or encrypts it (converting text into an unreadable form) until the victim pays a ransom to the attacker. It’s one of the most widespread and damaging forms of cyberattacks affecting organisations around the world. An […]

EFF asked a California appeals court to uphold a lower court’s decision to strike a tech CEO’s lawsuit against a journalist that sought to silence reporting the CEO, Maury Blackman, didn’t like. The journalist, Jack Poulson, reported on Maury Blackman’s arrest for felony domestic violence after receiving a copy of the arrest report from a […]

Kues/Shutterstock “Come on, little fella – we should get going now.” But my son was not listening. The sand in the playground was just right, so he kept digging with his new toy excavator. As I drifted back to my list of to-dos, however, the laughter was suddenly replaced by sobs. My son was not […]

remotevfx.com/Shutterstock Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, while studying the behaviour of particles in regions of extreme gravity, Einstein and Rosen introduced what they called a “bridge”: a […]

SAN FRANCISCO — In a move that signals a seismic shift in the artificial intelligence infrastructure race, OpenAI has officially signed a multi-year computing agreement with Cerebras Systems valued at over $10 billion. Announced on January 14, 2026, the deal represents OpenAI’s most aggressive effort yet to diversify its supply chain and break its near-total […]

Ink Drop/Shutterstock Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed “web 2.0”. The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been read-only: static pages, hand-built homepages, portal sites with content from a few publishers. Then came the dotcom crash of 2000 to 2001, when many heavily financed, lightly useful internet […]