Tag: Technology

Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary. The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it has signed up AI companies including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Perplexity, Microsoft and France’s Mistral AI. Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of the early internet, but that...

Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday (January 14, 2026) announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualized photos of women and children. The announcement comes after California’s attorney general launched an investigation into Mr. Musk’s xAI — the developer of Grok...

SpaceX’s Starlink said one of its ​satellites experienced an anomaly in space on Wednesday that created a “small ‌number” of debris and cut off communications with the spacecraft at ​418 km in altitude, a rare kinetic accident in orbit for the satellite internet giant. “The satellite is largely intact, tumbling, and will reenter the earth’s...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion and target a valuation of about $1.5 trillion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. SpaceX’s management and advisers are pursuing a listing as soon as mid-to-late 2026 for the entire company, the report...

Thousands of users across India found themselves abruptly locked out of Google Meet calls after what appears to have been a wide-scale service disruption. Reports clustered around error messages and “502 — Bad Gateway” notifications, with many users unable to access meetings. The outage struck just days after a massive disruption triggered by Cloudflare, underscoring...

Modern WiFi standards have a feature called beamforming that helps routers push signals more efficiently towards connected devices. To do this, phones and laptops regularly broadcast short reports describing how they ‘see’ the wireless channel. These reports are unencrypted and can be picked up by any other device in range. Are these reports rich enough...