Author: Olsi
On Tuesday, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security told members of several advisory committees that they were effectively fired. Among the committees impacted is the Cyber Security Review Board, or CSRB, according to sources familiar with the board who spoke to The Tech Spot, as well as reporting by other news outlets. The CSRB was made up of both private sector and government cybersecurity experts. One person familiar with the CSRB, who received the letter informing them that their membership in the CSRB was being terminated, criticized the decision. “Shutting…
Today is the day that Samsung lovers and those wanting a new Android phone have been looking forward to: pre-orders are up for the new Samsung S25 series phones, including the Samsung S25 Ultra. The Samsung S25 Ultra is available to pre-order now but won’t get to you until February 7. Still, now is the time to order the phone if you want to make sure you’re one of the first to use it. You can find everything we know about the S25 series elsewhere, but here we’re specifically looking at pre-ordering. In any event, you may still wish to…
Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI across the U.S. Stargate, announced Tuesday during a press conference at the White House, would funnel as much as $500 billion from investors including SoftBank and Middle East AI fund MGX into data centers to support OpenAI’s AI workloads. Partners in Stargate have initially pledged $100 billion, some of which is being put toward a data center under construction in Abilene, Texas. Elon Musk claims that Stargate doesn’t have the money it says it does. “The…
A South Carolina utility wants to restart construction on a power plant that was mothballed eight years ago after running over budget and pushing an iconic American company into bankruptcy. Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to help finance and complete the two reactors at the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station, the Wall Street Journal reports. Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station is a single reactor power plant. Santee Cooper was spearheading the construction of two new reactors, an expansion that began in 2008. The unfinished project was…
On Wednesday, Samsung unveiled how SmartThings, its smart home platform, will introduce AI features that allow users to simplify their everyday life through ambient sensing technology and generative AI. At Samsung Unpacked 2025, the company said the upcoming “Home AI” features will gather insights from a user’s everyday life to create personalized experiences. Samsung shared that SmartThings will use advanced sensor technology, like millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sound sensor devices in users homes, to understand customers’ daily activities like cooking or sleeping and create the ideal environment. It’s an ambitious vision. For instance, if a user is exercising, said Samsung, SmartThings…
Samsung revealed three new additions to its Galaxy smartphone line at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday. The news didn’t bring too many surprises, as the line maintains its usual tiered system with the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. The news finds the hardware in line with the rest of the mobile industry by focusing many of the updates on the AI front — specifically, via Google’s Gemini platform. That said, there are still a number of hardware distinctions between the models, hence the $500 price gulf between the S25 and S25 Ultra’s starting prices. Here’s a quick…
Samsung’s glitzy Unpacked 2025 event gave a clear sign that moving forward, phones are entering their agentic era. AI is in the driving seat of mobile experiences, enhancing everything from camera capture to how we get app-based work done. The headline of the event was, of course, the Galaxy S25 series smartphones. At the summit is the Galaxy S25 Ultra, the true showcase of Samsung’s imaging capabilities and hardware refinements. The entry-point Galaxy S25 also gets a crucial hardware upgrade to speed up generative AI tasks, while the SmartThings ecosystem is eyeing its biggest sensing overhaul yet. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra…
Every streaming service is working overtime to make sure that it can compete in what has become a pretty crowded streaming market. Few streaming services have as many movies worth checking out as Max, though, thanks to its combination of a deep archival library and plenty of new movies rotating regularly. If you’re looking for a great action movie available on the service, we’ve got you covered. We’ve pulled together three of the best action movies you should watch on the streaming service, no matter what you’re looking for: The Revenant – 2015 Leonardo DiCaprio won his Oscar for this…
