The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday evening that Anthropic poses an “unacceptable risk to national security,” marking the agency’s first rebuttal to the AI lab’s lawsuits challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last month to label the company a supply-chain risk. As part of its complaints, Anthropic had requested the court temporarily block…
Audi is about to unveil its most affordable EV: Here's what it will look like [Images]
March 19, 2026
The brand with four rings is reviving the quirky A2 for its new entry-level EV. Audi promises the A2 e-tron will offer a new entry point for premium EVs. Here’s what to expect.
The Audi A2 e-tron will be a new entry-level EV hatch
It’s official. Audi’s CEO, Gernot…
Elon Musk is once again promising the long-delayed next-generation Tesla Roadster is just around the corner. This time, he says an “unveil” is coming next month — April 2026.
The Tesla CEO made the claim on X today while quote-tweeting a post about the anniversary of…
The US government has officially confirmed that Tesla is the customer behind LG Energy Solution’s massive $4.3 billion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery supply contract — ending months of speculation since LG first disclosed the deal last July.
The three-year agreement will see LG produce LFP prismatic cells at its Lansing, Michigan factory starting in 2027, feeding directly into Tesla’s…
US assesses China not planning to invade Taiwan in 2027
March 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) — China does not currently plan to invade Taiwan in 2027 and seeks to control the island without the use of force, the U.S. intelligence community said on Wednesday, striking a measured tone on one of the world’s biggest potential…
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For decades, the U.S. military’s dream of high-energy laser weapons has been perpetually “five years away.”…
PARIS — The United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland, together with several other countries, are in talks to set up a financial institution that would provide funding for joint multi-year defense projects, similar to the European Investment Bank but focused on defense.
The participating countries would provide capital to the institution that could serve as a guarantee for issuing bonds, the…
Though Internxt Drive rightfully touts its 256-bit encryption and dedication to privacy, there’s no feature in particular that sets it apart from the crowd.
As with services such as Dropbox, Sync.com, OneDrive, iDrive, etc. there’s sync and storage. There’s also…
As someone who works with images for almost every part of my job, I really don’t like Google’s WebP format. It’s fine for what it does, but loading it up in an image editor can often be a headache. So, I use a browser extension to download WebP files as JPEG and…
The first 16TB M.2 SSD on Amazon costs as much as a car
March 19, 2026
Do you need a lot of storage? Well, then, you’re going to have to pay for it—and you’ll be paying a lot more than you would have a year ago, as “AI” data centers gobble up a bigger and bigger share of the industry’s output of memory and storage. But even the most lavish among us would probably wince at dropping nearly $16,000 USD on an M.2 drive, even if it does have a capacity of 16…
