On July 5, 2024 (06:00 UTC), hosting provider Hetzner published a blunt warning on its status page: phishing emails are circulating “in the name of Hetzner,” and they’re aiming for the two things criminals never get tired of monetizing—account logins and credit card details. The incident post is still listed as Status: Identified, and Hetzner’s…
Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going: What WIRED’s ‘For Future Reference’ Gets Right (and What Comes Next)
On January 27, 2026, WIRED published a neat little reality check titled Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going. It’s part of WIRED’s freshly sharpened “For Future Reference” framing, and it reads like what happens when you put AI CEOs, policy wonks, artists, and UC Berkeley students in the same room, then…
AWS Weekly Roundup (Jan 26, 2026): EC2 G7e With NVIDIA Blackwell, Corretto Security Updates, and the Quiet Infrastructure Wins You’ll Actually Feel
AWS has a talent for shipping big-ticket hardware announcements in the same week it also sneaks in a handful of “this will save you hours” improvements. The AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (January 26, 2026) is a perfect example: a new GPU instance family designed for modern AI inference…
AWS Weekly Roundup (Jan 26, 2026): EC2 G7e with NVIDIA Blackwell, Corretto security updates, and the quiet platform tweaks that matter
AWS has a particular talent for launching something that sounds like a minor alphabet soup update (“G7e is now generally available”) and then watching half the internet quietly reorder its infrastructure roadmap. In the AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (January 26, 2026), AWS recaps a cluster of changes that—taken…
The Power of Sound in a Virtual World: Why Audio Is the Real MVP of VR, AR, and Online Meetings
On January 26, 2026, MIT Technology Review published (via its Business Lab channel) an episode titled “The power of sound in a virtual world”. The conversation is hosted by MIT Technology Review Insights’ Laurel Ruma and features Erik Vaveris (Vice President of Product Management and Chief Marketing Officer at Shure) and Brian Scholl (Director of…
Synthesia’s $4B Valuation and the New Normal: Letting Employees Cash Out While AI Video Goes Corporate
Synthesia just pulled off a very 2026 move: raising a huge round, nearly doubling its valuation, and simultaneously giving employees a real chance to turn paper wealth into actual, pays-the-mortgage money. If you’ve been watching the generative AI market wobble between “this changes everything” and “please stop emailing me about your AI pivot,” Synthesia’s latest…
When Hobby Accounts Start Talking About ICE: How Creators, Communities, and the Open Web Turn Outrage Into a Network Effect
Some stories are so obviously “political” that you can hear the comment section warming up its “stay in your lane” engines before the first paragraph is done. And then there are stories like this one, where the “lane” turns out to be… basically the entire internet. On January 25, 2026, The Verge published a short,…
Amazon EC2 G7e Is Here: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs Land in the Cloud (and Inference Gets a Big Boost)
AWS has added a new entry to its ever-growing catalog of “please don’t look at the hourly bill” instances: Amazon EC2 G7e. These new GPU instances are now generally available and are built around NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs—hardware that’s clearly designed for a world where AI models eat VRAM for breakfast…
Claude Cowork: How Anthropic Is Turning Claude Into Shared AI Infrastructure (and Why Teams Should Care)
When most people think “AI assistant,” they still picture a glorified autocomplete box with manners: you ask, it answers, you copy-paste, you forget where you put the answer, and then you ask again next week. That workflow has been remarkably popular for something that’s basically the digital equivalent of shouting questions into a canyon. Anthropic…
Chatbots for Health Are Here. So Are the AI Regulation Knife Fights.
On January 23, 2026, MIT Technology Review’s “The Download” put two stories side-by-side that, frankly, deserve to be in the same room: the rapid rise of health chatbots and the escalating U.S. political brawl over who gets to regulate AI. The item was published by MIT Technology Review (the original creator), and the specific “The…