Daniel Kim — Technology Editor 
Nvidia is negotiating a roughly $250 billion financial backstop to help OpenAI lease a massive 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and other outlets. The project, managed by SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy, could cost more than $500 billion in total. Artificial intelligence infrastructure is hurtling toward … Read more
Two drivers lost their driver’s licenses and seven received on-the-spot fines during a Norwegian Public Roads Administration speed check on County Road 109 in Leie. One motorist tried to flee from the police patrol at high speed, later blaming an important phone call for his erratic behavior. A routine traffic control operation on County Road … Read more
Browser fingerprinting allows online platforms to track user activity across the internet without installing cookies by querying hardware specs, screen resolution, time zones, and installed fonts. Security experts and browser developers have introduced countermeasures, but stopping the practice completely remains difficult across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. Uninterrupted browsing used to be straightforward: disable third-party … Read more
The internet has drifted a long way from the days when landing on a personal web page meant stepping into an idiosyncratic space shaped entirely by a creator’s individual terms and ideas. Instead, contemporary browsing has flattened into visual uniformity, exacerbated by a mass-produced “vibe-coding” aesthetic that breeds widespread sameness across domains. Creativity on the … Read more
Researchers plan to scan the Great Pyramid of Giza using high-sensitivity cosmic-ray muon detectors placed outside the structure. The proposed system aims to map two mysterious voids, including a large cavity above the grand gallery, potentially revealing hidden chambers or artifacts from Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty. Nearly five millennia after its construction, the Great Pyramid of … Read more
On August 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain while simultaneously aligning with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower under moonless skies. NASA-funded researchers plan to deploy high-altitude research jets and atmospheric balloons to study the Sun’s corona and upper atmosphere changes. Chasing the Shadow: NASA’s Airborne Strategy … Read more
September 2026 is shaping up as an unusually congested month for smartphone flagships, with Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Oppo all preparing simultaneous releases. Qualcomm’s late-September Snapdragon Summit anchors the timing, while shifting industry strategies bring traditional autumn release windows forward into a single high-stakes retail showdown. The traditional rhythm of autumn smartphone releases is … Read more
Microsoft launched its first cybersecurity-specialized model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, alongside an agentic platform named Perception during a San Francisco event on Monday, taking a big swipe at major players in the space — namely Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. The tools integrate with the MDASH harness to autonomously identify, prioritize, and fix complex software vulnerabilities at enterprise scale. … Read more
Activision and Raven Software’s 2009 shooter Wolfenstein vanished from digital storefronts in 2014. Now, recent database updates on Steam—including the removal of its release date and the addition of Steam Deck verification—have sparked unconfirmed remaster rumors among fans. Back in 2009, Activision published a first-person shooter titled Gry-online, which was developed by Raven Software, a … Read more
Tech billionaire Elon Musk predicted in a recent interview with The Economist that artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics will create an era of incredible material abundance within ten years, making traditional money obsolete while fundamentally transforming work into an optional choice. The Vision of an Infinite Economy Built by AI and Robots The intersection of … Read more