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Three days after US airlines banned passengers from bringing humanoid robots onto commercial flights, the Federal Communications Commission barred the robots from entering the country at all. The July 28 rule adds advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters to the agency’s national security Covered List, blocking new imports of foreign-made humanoids, quadrupeds, and grid-connected […]

The Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX’s Starlink a conditional exemption on July 27 from its March 2026 ban on foreign-made consumer routers, allowing the satellite broadband provider to continue importing certain router models manufactured in Vietnam until February 1, 2028. The ban, adopted under FCC Chair Brendan Carr, updated the agency’s national security “Covered List” […]

A 75-pound robot named Bebop caused an hour-long delay on a Southwest flight from Oakland to San Diego in May 2026. The crew could not determine where to seat it or whether its battery pack fell within legal limits. Within days, Southwest had rewritten its baggage policy, and by late July, United and Delta had […]

A prototype of Microsoft’s forthcoming Surface Laptop Ultra has surfaced in the hands of an independent reviewer, offering the first detailed look at Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X system-on-chip in a laptop form factor. The device, marked as an EV1.5 engineering validation unit, represents the closest the public has come to testing Nvidia’s consumer Arm processor […]

A spacecraft built by the startup Katalyst Space Technologies to lift NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a higher orbit is spinning out of control, raising doubts about the first-ever commercial contract of its kind. The LINK servicing vehicle, launched July 3 on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket from Kwajalein Atoll, suffered a dual […]

A proposed financial arrangement between Nvidia and OpenAI would mark one of the largest private capital commitments in technology history, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and CNBC. Nvidia is in discussions to provide a roughly $250 billion financial guarantee that would allow OpenAI to lease a 10-gigawatt data center campus being developed […]

The New York Times has spent more than $20 million on its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no intention of settling. In an extended interview with Wired, Sulzberger laid out the case that the legal fight is not just about one newspaper’s revenues – it is about whether the […]

One of the most reliably cash-generative companies in technology history just spent more money than it brought in: the culprit is the AI infrastructure buildout. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported negative free cash flow of $5.9 billion for the second quarter of 2026, the first time it has posted a negative figure since its initial […]

One of the longest-running frustrations for Windows 11 users has finally received an official acknowledgment from Microsoft: the operating system’s native applications use more memory than they should, and the company is planning structural changes to fix it. The admission, reported by PCWorld and confirmed through Microsoft’s internal discussions, targets the WinUI 3 framework that […]

Last week’s breach at Hugging Face, where an autonomous AI agent compromised production servers by exploiting a malicious dataset, crystallized a question that security teams have been wrestling with for months: how do you defend against AI that can move faster than any human analyst, probe more vectors than any manual tester, and adapt its […]