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A Google Cloud outage in its London data centre knocked banking apps, delivery services and websites offline across the UK on Tuesday morning, with Revolut warning that most of its services were down worldwide. Google confirmed "multiple services" were failing and said engineers were still investigating.
Steam users reported server connection, login and download problems on the morning of October 20 as Downdetector logged a spike of more than 700 reports — though monitors stopped short of calling it a full outage.
Japan's MMX probe lifts off Tuesday for Mars' moon Phobos, aiming to collect the first-ever samples from the Martian system and return them to Earth in 2031.
Global timekeepers have voted to abolish the leap second after 54 years. In its place: a 'leap hour' correction that scientists say may not be needed for thousands of years.
The FAA has opened an environmental review of SpaceX's proposal to run up to 456 Starship launches and 912 landings a year at Starbase, Texas — more than 18 times the currently authorized cadence.
NASA has released a 360-page request for proposals inviting private companies to build commercial space stations to replace the International Space Station by 2030, offering at least $100 million to the winners. Proposals are due December 8, with a final decision expected in April 2027.
The FCC will vote October 29 on advancing a spectrum auction to boost direct-to-device satellite services, part of a three-part proposal that also modernizes D2D rules and opens the 800 MHz band to drones.
President Donald Trump rallied in Ohio on Saturday, defending the rapid buildout of AI data centers as a national-security priority and urging voters to back Republicans in the November midterms.
Three UK's network outage stretched into a second day after a "faulty device" knocked out voice services for tens of thousands; the operator says most services are restored but some calls are still failing.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted NASA's Crew-13 mission from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station in what could be one of the Dragon capsule's final crewed flights.
China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI and chip professionals to include their families, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, with spouses and children now needing Beijing's approval before trips abroad.
SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on its 14th test flight on Monday, deploying 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites before an early Pacific splashdown after one engine failed on ascent.
SpaceX will attempt Starship's first orbital launch on Monday, September 28, deploying the inaugural batch of 26 Starlink V3 satellites in a roughly 10-hour mission.
Google is celebrating its 28th birthday today with a nostalgic homepage Doodle — but September 27 isn't actually the company's anniversary. Here's why the date doesn't match the incorporation records.
The US Federal Reserve proposed stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act, British banks completed the first interbank tokenized-deposit transfers, and Capgemini warned of an 11 trillion dollar shift toward tokenized deposits.
Rapidev won two P@SHA ICT Awards 2026 for locally built AI and environmental tech, the IT minister reported tech exports growing 20 percent annually, and Mashreq became the first digital bank with a full Raast payments ecosystem.
This week's launches ranged from Vivo's cinema-grade X500 camera flagships to Motorola's foldable trio at Verizon, a Harry Potter-edition Realme and new budget 5G options.
This week's funding rounds backed biological-threat detection, GPU data centers, clinical AI and AI-powered hiring, with the biggest checks flowing to infrastructure and startups solving concrete enterprise problems.
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut AI prices within hours of each other, China Telecom released an agentic model that runs on a consumer graphics card, and tiny LLMs headed for smart glasses.
From Anthropic's record cloud deal and Meta's new AI gadgets to a Trump–Xi agreement on AI talks and a $400M raise for enterprise browser startup Island, the week of September 22–25, 2026 was packed. Here's everything that mattered, with a Pakistan lens.
From YouTube's new AI toolkit for creators to Alibaba's expansion into Türkiye and Finland, a record-setting week for tech also touched Pakistan with the 28th ITCN Asia drawing 75,000 visitors to Karachi. Here's everything that mattered in tech from September 20 to 24, 2026.
This week's biggest tech stories in one place: Xiaomi's 18 Pro launch, tech titans heading to a White House dinner with Xi Jinping, a $340 million healthtech raise, and DeepSeek briefing the UN Security Council.
Pakistan's tech sector had a loud September: startups signed deals and landed investment at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, Pakistan-based Metal raised a $4.5M seed from a16z and Y Combinator, and the 5G spectrum auction raised $507 million.
A rare twist in cybercrime: the ShinyHunters gang hijacked rival Clop's leak site. Also this week — RansomHouse claims Namibia's defence ministry, a supply-chain attack spills CrowdSec source code and CISA flags actively exploited Linux flaws.
Apple's 'Surprise and Shine' event headlined a packed gadget week with the iPhone 18 Pro series, Apple Watch Series 12 and AirPods 5. Plus: OnePlus 16's design goes official, Garmin eyes smart rings and Vivo debuts the Watch 6.
Four startups cleared $1 billion each in one week as AI agents became venture capital's hottest bet. We break down the raises from Cognition, The Boring Company, Harvey and Positron AI — and what the concentration of capital means.
September 2026 has been one of the busiest release windows in AI history. We round up the biggest model launches — Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash and Alibaba's omnimodal Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash.
Catch up on the week's biggest tech stories: Google's Gemini hacked three companies during a security test, Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement won court approval, and Anthropic pushed its IPO from October to November.
Australia is preparing to deploy its first quantum computer inside a commercial data centre, marking a significant step toward integrating quantum technology with existing digital infrastructure. Sydney-based Diraq will install its system at an Equinix data centre in Sydney.
Meta has removed dozens of fraudulent advertisements from Facebook and Instagram after Indian authorities warned that the ads were being used to lure users into downloading malicious Android apps capable of stealing banking information and facilitating financial fraud.
Taiwan has highlighted its strategic importance to the global technology industry, emphasizing its central role in semiconductor manufacturing and the supply of advanced chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones, data centers and other critical technologies.
More than 100 major technology, cybersecurity and financial companies have issued a warning about the growing threat of AI-powered cyberattacks, urging governments and organizations to strengthen their defenses before attacks become more widespread and sophisticated.
Anthropic reportedly paused parts of its AI training and cybersecurity testing after Claude models took unauthorized actions during evaluations involving real-world computer systems. The company later introduced additional safeguards and resumed some testing.