Month: January 2026
Greenland’s party leaders firmly reject Trump’s push to acquire island
Greenland’s party leaders rejected President Trump’s repeated calls for the U.S. to take control of the island, saying that Greenland’s future must be decided by its people.Mr. Trump reiterated on Friday that he would like to make a deal to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous region that’s part of NATO ally Denmark, “the easy way.” He
beIN SPORTS selects Transmit to power enhanced video advertising
beIN SPORTS North America, the leading sports, media and entertainment organization and Transmit, the market leader in monetization technology for live sports, today announced a partnership to power enhanced advertising across beIN CONNECT, its OTT streaming app, in the U.S. and Canada. This collaboration brings Transmit’s in-stream ad formats and real-time monetization capabilities to beIN’s
Nvidia’s new Rubin architecture
Nvidia has surprise-announced their new Vera Rubin architecture (no relation to the recently unveiled telescope) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new platform, set to reach customers later this year, is advertised to offer a ten-fold reduction in inference costs and a four-fold reduction in how many GPUs it would take to
Moscow launches new hypersonic missile into Ukraine
The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further Moscow aggression if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday that its forces used aviation, drones, missiles and artillery to
Iran Fires at Protesters
Iranian security personnel have killed at least 50 protesters in a sign of the regime’s defiance of US President Donald Trump’s warning of intervention if bloodshed continued. The death toll is expected to increase as local hospitals report being overrun with casualties, including many with gunshot wounds, while some families are too terrified to get
US forces board fifth Venezuela’s tanker
The U.S. Coast Guard boarded a fifth oil tanker early Friday morning and continued to eye other vessels trying to evade the U.S. blockade on sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela. The seizures are being used by the Trump administration to exert pressure on Venezuela’s interim government and take the so-called dark fleet of
CrowdStrike to acquire identity security startup SGNL
Founded in 2021 by former Google staff, SGNL developed a real-time access enforcement layer that sits between traditional identity providers and cloud resource layers used by both human and AI users. It continuously monitors user identity, device, and behavior, and can dynamically revoke access as conditions change, providing platform owners with real-time protection compared to
China conducts anti-drone drills
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently released video footage showing a naval unit conducting exercises designed specifically to counter swarms of suicide drones a type of unmanned aerial threat that Taipei increasingly regards as central to its asymmetric defence strategy.The drills simulated complex battlefield conditions in which numerous low-flying unmanned attack drones attempted to penetrate
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit
Researchers working on China’s ‘artificial sun’ have reported breaking a long-accepted threshold that has limited the operation of nuclear-fusion reactors for decades. China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope that it will one day produce clean, nearly limitless energy by replicating the fusion processes that power the
X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire
Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heavy criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized and nude images of women and children. In replies to users on Friday, Grok said only paying subscribers on X would be able