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On 3 Feb 2026, momentum leapt from Australia’s December 2025 under-16 social-media blackout to Europe as Spain unveiled a matching bill and Greece signalled an imminent under-15 restriction, marking the first multinational cascade of such laws.
On 3 Feb 2026 Elon Musk folded his AI startup xAI into SpaceX, setting up a single private firm worth roughly $1.25 trillion and tasking it with deploying solar-powered data-centre constellations in orbit ahead of an anticipated IPO this year.
Facing predawn forecasts below NASA’s 41 °F fueling threshold, managers bumped Artemis II’s earliest launch from 6 Feb to 8 Feb and shifted the wet-dress rehearsal two days later.
Cybersecurity firm Wiz found and reported an open Supabase backend that let anyone read or edit Moltbook’s data, spilling 1.5 million agent API tokens and ≈35 000 user emails before being locked down within hours on 2 Feb 2026.
In January 2026 SpaceX said it will lower about 40 % of its Starlink fleet from 550 km to 480 km during 2026, a move triggered by a 10 Dec 2025 200-metre brush with a newly launched Chinese Earth-imaging satellite and mounting evidence that LEO collision margins have evaporated.
After Kyiv verified Russian drones using hijacked Starlink terminals, Ukraine and SpaceX opened a rapid-response channel on 29 Jan 2026 and began cutting connectivity to those units.
On 30 January 2026, SpaceX formally petitioned the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to authorize an unprecedented constellation of up to one million low-Earth-orbit satellites that would function as solar-powered data centers for artificial-intelligence workloads.
On 31 Jan 2026, SpaceX filed with the FCC to deploy up to one million solar-powered data-center satellites—just days after researchers reported that Low-Earth Orbit would suffer a catastrophic collision only 2.8 days after loss of control, highlighting the collision crisis even as SpaceX plans massive expansion.
On 30 Jan 2026, Blue Origin grounded its New Shepard rocket for a minimum two-year hiatus, diverting staff and capital to finish its Blue Moon human lander for NASA’s Artemis V mission.
Google opened paid early access to its Project Genie AI on 30 Jan 2026, and within the same trading day Unity, Roblox and Take-Two shares crashed up to 24 % on fears the tool could automate large chunks of game development.
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