On January 27, 2026, MIT Technology Review published a story with a headline that sounds like it escaped from a sci‑fi writer’s room: “The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin ‘shortly’”. The piece (and the discussion it immediately triggered across the internet) centers on a milestone that longevity researchers have been inching…
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,…
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…
The US Has Officially Left the WHO—and the Unpaid Bill Is the Least “Tech” Part of This Story
On January 22, 2026, the United States formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO). The headlines have focused on the money—because of course they have. According to reporting by Ars Technica, the US exit comes with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid obligations—specifically a reported $278 million in 2024–2025 assessed dues,…
F-16 Falcon Strike: The Atari XL/XE Combat Flight Sim That Shouldn’t Exist (But Absolutely Does)
Somewhere in the multiverse, there’s a timeline where the Atari 65XE is a respected platform for modern combat flight simulators. In our timeline, that idea sounds like a prank—until you boot F-16 Falcon Strike and realize the joke is on you. F-16 Falcon Strike is a new 3D, six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) combat flight simulator for Atari…
OpenFOAM on AWS Without the Usual HPC Drama: A Deep Dive into Yobitel’s Enterprise AMIs
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has a weird superpower: it can turn an innocuous-looking spreadsheet of boundary conditions into a week-long argument about turbulence models, mesh quality, and whose workstation is “allowed” to run overnight. OpenFOAM, the open-source CFD workhorse, has long been the tool of choice for teams that want deep control, automation, and no…
Who Gets to Inherit the Stars? Space Ethics, Space Labor, and the New Lunar Land Rush
On January 17, 2026, TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos published a deceptively simple question with a very large blast radius: who gets to inherit the stars? citeturn1view0 Loizos’s piece isn’t about propulsion breakthroughs or shiny renders of lunar condos with tasteful recessed lighting. It’s about the topics that make the space business crowd shift in their…
Symbolic.ai and News Corp: The AI Newsroom Deal That Turns “Experiment” Into Infrastructure
On January 15, 2026, TechCrunch reported that the AI journalism startup Symbolic.ai has signed a deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp—with an initial deployment focused on Dow Jones Newswires. The item was written by Lucas Ropek, and it’s the kind of two-minute read that quietly signals a much bigger shift: newsrooms aren’t just “trying AI”…
Grok, “Spicy Mode,” and a Not-So-Spicy Investigation: What California’s Probe Means for xAI, X, and the Future of AI Image Safety
On January 14, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an investigation into xAI’s Grok over the alleged proliferation of nonconsensual sexually explicit images—some reportedly involving minors—generated and shared online. Hours earlier, Elon Musk posted that he was “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok,” a denial that, depending on how you…
The Best TVs Unveiled at CES 2026: A Glimpse into the Future of Home Entertainment
The Consumer Electronics Show 2026 (CES) has once again served as the grand stage for unveiling the future of technology, and TVs, unsurprisingly, have been at the forefront of this technological parade. As living rooms across the globe become more like personal cinemas, the innovations displayed this year aim to transform how we experience visual…