Technology

Yes. On October 1, 2026, Google confirmed its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-18 and was operating in orbit.

HTTP sends web traffic in plaintext; HTTPS is HTTP encrypted with TLS (port 443), so browsers treat it as the secure default.

Yes. On October 1, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office announced that he had served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI as part of an ongoing California Department of Justice inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks involving OpenAI and its AI models. The subpoena follows the office’s earlier formal investigation into the so-called Hugging Face … Read more

Yes. On October 1, 2026, OpenAI confirmed it is reviewing a report of a failed hacking attempt against Library and Archives Canada and said it had provided an initial briefing to Canadian officials. Nonprofit research lab Transluce reported two “rudimentary” attempted attacks—against Canada’s national archives and a U.S. Education Department statistics agency—and found no evidence … Read more

Yes. On September 30, 2026, OpenAI said it had identified and disrupted a coordinated “adversarial distillation” campaign that tried to extract protected reasoning from its models, and it attributed a core cluster of that activity to individuals associated with Chinese startup Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi. OpenAI said the activity began in early July, … Read more

A modem links your home to the ISP; a router shares that link across your devices as a local network—often as Wi‑Fi.

Yes. On September 30, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission confirmed it had launched an investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI, and other artificial intelligence companies over potential risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson said the probe—first opened earlier in the summer—examines whether the companies’ actions may violate the FTC Act’s ban on unfair or … Read more

Yes. On September 30, 2026, Alphabet’s Google announced a new top-tier artificial intelligence model called “Argon” to anchor its Gemini 4 generation of models, according to Reuters. A company spokesperson said Argon is larger than Google’s previous advanced “Pro” models and is being provided to select cybersecurity partners, with no public release timeline given. Google … Read more

Yes. On September 30, 2026, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said it partnered with Huawei Technologies to develop programming tools optimized for Huawei’s Ascend chips, as Chinese tech companies deepen ties while seeking alternatives to Nvidia’s ecosystem. In a WeChat post, DeepSeek said it was open-sourcing programming infrastructure for the Ascend platform, including compute and communication … Read more

Wi-Fi is wireless and convenient; Ethernet is wired and typically faster, steadier, and lower-latency.