A new modelling study suggests that smoke from Canada’s record 2023 wildfire season reduced potential solar generation across North America and Europe, exposing an overlooked climate risk for electricity systems.
xAI’s challenge to Minnesota’s new anti-nudification law puts platform responsibility, AI safety design and US free-speech law on a direct collision course.
EA Sports FC 27 will introduce The Grounds, a shared social football hub designed to connect informal matches, Clubs and player progression beyond the traditional stadium setting.
The rapid expansion of data centers has turned artificial intelligence from an abstract technology debate into a practical political conflict over electricity, water, land and public accountability.
Samsung’s reported five-year memory supply agreements show how AI data-centre investment is turning a traditionally cyclical chip market into a contest for assured capacity.
Recent Steam metadata changes have revived hopes for a return of Raven Software’s 2009 Wolfenstein, but QuakeCon has not yet confirmed a remaster or re-release.
A near rainless July across parts of the UK has turned an unusual weather statistic into a wider test of rivers, farms, ecosystems and water supply resilience.
Microsoft is preparing to bind enterprise Windows volume activation more closely to trusted hardware, using TPM-based attestation to make KMS hosts harder to clone, spoof or misuse.
The White House has completed a voluntary framework for pre-release access to certain advanced AI models, but has not published its rules, leaving its practical scope and safeguards unclear.
European Union interoperability rules are expanding access to iPhone features, but the published measures do not require Apple to bring Universal Clipboard to Windows.
OpenAI has published a collection of ten claimed advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, but their long-term importance will depend on independent expert scrutiny as much as on the model’s apparent problem-solving ability.
Global PC shipments fell 4% year on year in the second quarter of 2026 as memory costs constrained supply and demand, while Apple and ASUS were the notable growth exceptions among the leading vendors.