Keynotes include Shipwreck Hunter James Gadomski and GTIA VP Carolyn April in multi-city peer-driven education event. The ASCII Group, North America's premier vendor-neutral community for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), has unveiled the speaker lineup for its ASCII Edge 2026 conference series. The multi-city event, spanning eight locations across the United States and Canada, is designed to provide MSP business owners with practical, peer-driven education on the most pressi

Record-shattering investment in Southaven targets 2 gigawatts of compute power for Grok; faces environmental scrutiny. Elon Musk’s xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, has announced a massive capital expenditure exceeding $20 billion to build a hyperscale data center in Southaven, Mississippi. The project, which state officials have confirmed as the largest single private investment in Mississippi’s history, is an aggressive push to secure the computational capacity need

$8.9 billion stake skyrockets to $18 billion in four months as chipmaker's turnaround accelerates. The United States government’s strategic equity stake in Intel Corporation has dramatically doubled in value in the four months since the initial investment, according to statements from the White House. The $8.9 billion investment, executed in August 2025, is now estimated to be worth approximately $18 billion, representing a massive return for American taxpayers and a clear si

Regulator approves second-generation expansion, doubling authorized Gen2 fleet to 15,000. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a major victory to SpaceX, approving the deployment of an additional 7,500 second-generation (Gen2) Starlink satellites. This decision effectively doubles the authorized Gen2 constellation to 15,000 units and accelerates Elon Musk's goal of delivering fiber-like connectivity worldwide. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr hailed the authorizat

Experts warn machine-speed threats, deepfake extortion and supply chain chaos will define the new year. The year 2026 is set to be a watershed moment for cybersecurity, defined by the convergence of Artificial Intelligence, identity fraud, and global geopolitical tension. Industry forecasts indicate that cybercrime has shifted from human-paced operations to machine-speed, autonomous attacks, forcing security teams to abandon traditional defense playbooks and fully commit to A