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On 16 January 2026 the U.S. NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center upgraded its outlook to a minor-to-moderate (G1–G2) geomagnetic storm for 16–18 Jan, extending potential aurora visibility to 15 U.S. states and triggering an immediate marketing push and booking spike for Iceland’s peak-season aurora tours.
Brussels released draft Cybersecurity Act revisions on 21 Jan 2026 that would compel all EU states to remove equipment from any supplier officially deemed "high-risk"—notably Huawei and ZTE—shifting earlier voluntary guidance to a legally binding phase-out.
On 20-21 Jan 2026 Elon Musk warned “Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT,” citing nine alleged deaths, and Sam Altman shot back that Tesla Autopilot is linked to 50+ fatalities, sharpening their legal and public battle over AI safety.
On 19 Jan 2026 an S4-level solar radiation storm slammed into Earth, intensifying geomagnetic activity to G3–G4 levels and pushing the auroral oval hundreds of kilometres south into mid-latitude North America and Europe.
NASA moved the 322-ft SLS-Orion rocket to Launch Pad 39B and set a 21 Jan cut-off for its 1.5 million-name microchip as it finalises a Feb 6–Apr launch window for the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo.
Microsoft rushed out out-of-band updates on 17 Jan 2026 after its 13 Jan cumulative security patch crippled shutdown, hibernation, Remote Desktop and classic Outlook for Windows 11 users.
On 16 Jan 2026, a bipartisan group of 13 governors and two cabinet secretaries formally demanded the PJM grid run an emergency 15-year capacity auction forcing tech firms to finance new plants, and within hours PJM issued its own reliability blueprint that omits the requested long-term auction.
On 17 Jan 2026, Attorney General Rob Bonta served xAI a cease-and-desist letter giving the firm five days to stop Grok from generating and distributing non-consensual sexual images, invoking California’s brand-new deepfake law AB 621.
On 17 Jan 2026 OpenAI began testing advertisements on ChatGPT’s free and new $8-per-month Go tiers in the U.S., while launching the Go plan to users in 170 countries.
NASA will begin moving the 11-million-pound SLS-Orion stack to Pad 39B on Jan 17, aiming to launch Artemis II on Feb 6—the first human voyage beyond low Earth orbit in 53 years.
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