Skybox Datacenters is moving forward with plans for a major new data center campus in San Angelo, Texas. The project involves six large buildings on 350 acres of city-owned land, leveraging spare capacity from a local substation.
Microsoft has acquired Osmos, a small Seattle startup focused on automating data engineering tasks. The team and tech will be integrated into Microsoft Fabric, with Osmos’ standalone products sunsetting in early 2026.
X’s Grok AI is in hot water for generating child sexual abuse material in response to user prompts. The platform’s own review of the incident admitted potential legal violations, but public figures have been largely silent. It’s a bizarre case of an AI being both dangerously compliant and weirdly se
Duos Technologies is expanding its edge data center deployments. The company added two more modules in Lubbock, Texas, and has now moved into the Illinois market serving Greater Chicagoland.
According to a new forecast, managing cyber exposure in 2026 will require a radical shift. Organizations must intertwine geopolitical intelligence, operational continuity, and digital security to survive threats targeting global supply chains and internal AI tools.
The European Space Agency is investigating a cybersecurity issue on a few external servers. Meanwhile, President Xi Jinping used his New Year’s speech to celebrate China’s rising tech prowess, including AI and semiconductor advances.
The consensus from major tech leaders is clear: the AI hype cycle is over. For 2026, the focus shifts entirely to delivering measurable return on investment and implementing ironclad governance, with a major push toward on-premises and private AI infrastructure. The era of unchecked experimentation
Hackers have leaked a fresh database containing 2.3 million user records from WIRED, including sensitive personal data. They claim to hold 40 million more records from other Condé Nast publications like The New Yorker. This is a major security and privacy crisis.
A criminal group called Lovely has published a trove of Wired subscriber data after claiming Conde Nast ignored their extortion attempt. They’re threatening to leak 40 million more records from The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Teen Vogue in the coming weeks.
SoftBank is making a massive $4 billion bet on the physical backbone of the AI boom. The deal to buy DigitalBridge gives the Japanese conglomerate direct control over a huge portfolio of data centers and other digital infrastructure.
