Cloudflare is experiencing widespread outages affecting multiple customers including social media platform X. Users worldwide are seeing error 500 messages and challenges.cloudflare.com blocks. The infrastructure provider confirmed it’s investigating the ongoing issue.
Valve is taking another shot at the living room PC market with a new Steam Machine launching in early 2026. The compact PC features AMD hardware and will compete with current-gen consoles. A redesigned Steam Controller will bundle with the system.
Google’s Tabua subsea cable has made landfall in Queensland, Australia. The cable will connect the US and Australia to Fiji with 16 fiber pairs and 17Tbps capacity each. It’s scheduled to launch next year as part of Google’s South Pacific Connect initiative.
AI agents managing end-to-end business processes, AI-powered products in customers’ hands, and a $10.9 trillion cybersecurity threat landscape will define 2026. Companies that master augmented teams and strategic resilience will gain competitive advantage in a year of rapid technological change.
A researcher at South East Technological University is studying what happens when drones receive false information but believe it to be true. His work focuses on those critical moments before failure occurs, aiming to create drones that can detect and respond to anomalies in real time.
A new $100 million super PAC backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires is targeting politicians who support AI safety regulations. Their first target is a New York lawmaker who sponsored popular safety legislation. The group claims it wants national standards while opposing state-level a
Researchers at the University of Virginia have developed a breakthrough 3D-printable polymer that’s both highly stretchable and biocompatible. The material uses a “foldable bottlebrush” design to create strong yet flexible networks. This could enable everything from artificial organ scaffolding to a
Researchers combined advanced chemical analysis with AI to identify molecular traces of life in rocks over 3.3 billion years old. The breakthrough could revolutionize how we search for life on other planets and rewrite Earth’s early biological history.
Apple appears ready to let iPhone users replace Siri with third-party AI assistants. The change would allow different assistants to be triggered via the side button. This is likely an EU-only feature tied to DMA compliance deadlines.
The US Department of Justice secured guilty pleas from five individuals involved in a massive North Korean IT worker fraud scheme. The operation involved US citizens renting their identities to North Koreans who then worked remotely for American companies. One defendant was an active duty Army soldi
