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Microsoft has walked away from the site that was supposed to house the United Kingdom’s largest AI supercomputer. The Telegraph reported on October 18 that Microsoft ended its agreement to be the anchor customer at Nscale’s planned AI data center in Loughton, Essex — a £2 billion project meant to host more than 23,000 Nvidia … Read more
Something has shifted in how the world talks about artificial intelligence. Search interest in the “AI bubble” spiked into the UK’s top-10 trending searches this week, the IMF, the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve have all flagged AI valuations, and Gary Marcus is comparing the current moment to 2008. At the same time, … Read more
CD Projekt Red’s co-CEO has clarified what the studio wants from the upcoming live-action Cyberpunk 2077 film: a brand-new story set in Night City, not a retelling of the game’s. It is the only choice that could work — and the studio already proved the model with Edgerunners. In brief CD Projekt Red says the … Read more
The October 2026 GameGPU reports revived the PS6 three-model rumor. Almost none of it is new — but a few details are, and one of them got publicly disavowed by the original leaker. Here’s the full triage. In brief PlayStation 6 three models rumor triage: what the Oct 14 GameGPU reports add to April's Moore's … Read more
NVIDIA’s new laptops put up to 128GB of unified memory in a Windows machine built to run AI locally. But the headline number hides the real buying decision: who actually benefits, what Windows on Arm still can’t do, and why the $2,599 entry price buys a very different machine than the $6,999 flagship. In brief … Read more
A bill now in both chambers of Congress would lift the H-1B salary exemption from $60,000 — frozen since 1998 — to roughly $140,000, tied to a live wage index. It is not a $140,000 minimum wage, and most tech workers would never feel it. Here is the mechanism the headlines skip. In brief The … Read more
How many people actually use a VPN, why they use one, how big the industry is — and what Australia’s record 330% demand surge reveals. Every statistic below is sourced, dated and linked. In brief 50+ sourced VPN statistics for 2026: global usage rates, market size, why people use VPNs, free-VPN risks — plus the … Read more
Hotel Wi-Fi, airport Wi-Fi, cafe Wi-Fi — the networks you most want a VPN on are the ones most likely to break it. Three causes explain nearly every failure, and they fix in a specific order. Work the ladder below before you blame the VPN. In brief Hotel, cafe and airport Wi-Fi block VPNs in … Read more
A VPN icon in your taskbar is not proof your VPN is working. The only proof is a before-and-after check: your IP address, location, DNS servers, and WebRTC exposure must all change when the VPN connects. Here is the 2-minute check, what a pass looks like, and what to do when one check fails. In … Read more
Yes — with two caveats that matter more than the VPN itself. A reputable VPN makes banking safer on networks you do not trust. It does nothing against phishing, malware, or a weak password, and your bank may challenge a login that comes from a shared VPN address. The safe answer depends on the network … Read more