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Helion, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and China's EAST reactor have each cleared critical technical barriers in early 2026, collectively marking the most concentrated period of fusion progress in the industry's history.
Six months of observations of the third interstellar object ever detected have uncovered water, methane, and hydrogen cyanide in its coma--and a Jupiter flyby on March 16 could yield the closest-ever look at an interstellar visitor.
Amazon launched its AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Brandenburg, Germany in January 2026 with €7.8 billion in investment and ~90 services, but legal experts warn the U.S. CLOUD Act may undermine its core sovereignty guarantees.
A 15-hour JWST observation has produced the first three-dimensional map of Uranus's ionosphere, confirming decades-long atmospheric cooling and exposing how the planet's tilted, offset magnetic field sculpts complex auroral structures unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system.
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a notice of appeal in its landmark antitrust case against Meta, challenging a November 2025 ruling that found the company is not a social media monopolist because it faces competition from TikTok and YouTube.
CoreWeave reports record Q4 revenue but a $452 million loss, while approximately $21 billion in total debt and securities class actions test the viability of GPU-backed financing.
As the Commerce Department's 90-day deadline approaches, a constitutional confrontation over AI governance is taking shape between the White House and state legislatures across the country.
A RedMonk study of 32 organizations reveals a fragmented policy landscape as projects from cURL to the Linux kernel draw competing lines on AI code.
The community-maintained Ingress NGINX controller goes read-only in March 2026. With no future security patches and four new CVEs disclosed in February, organizations running roughly half of all Kubernetes ingress traffic must now choose between Gateway API and alternative controllers.
IBM's annual threat index finds vulnerability exploitation now causes 40% of breaches, with 109 ransomware groups active and over 300,000 AI platform credentials stolen.
A community revolt over commit drought, staff cuts, and opaque development is forcing Oracle to rethink its stewardship of the world's most deployed open source database.
A new 501(c)(3) nonprofit modeled on university endowments aims to generate sustainable returns for critical open source projects, backed by the founders of HashiCorp, cURL, and Vue.js.