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On 26 March 2026 Brussels simultaneously opened a formal Digital Services Act probe into Snapchat and issued preliminary breach findings against four major porn sites for inadequate age-verification, putting all five platforms at risk of multi-billion-euro fines.
On 24-25 March 2026, Administrator Jared Isaacman revealed that NASA will cancel its Gateway orbital station and redirect roughly $20 billion toward a three-phase permanent lunar base while committing to launch the nuclear-electric ‘Space Reactor-1 Freedom’ mission to Mars by 2028.
NASA chief Jared Isaacman scrapped the planned lunar-orbit Gateway and committed $20 billion to start robotically constructing a permanent Moon base with monthly landings from 2027, paving the way for a first crewed stay in early 2028 and invoking Artemis-Accords “safety zones” to ward off interference.
On 25 Mar 2026 Arm broke from its pure-licensing model and introduced the AGI CPU for agentic-AI servers, forecasting $15 billion in annual chip revenue by FY-2031 and sending its Nasdaq-listed shares up more than 15% intraday.
On 24 March 2026 NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the Ignition roadmap, redirecting Artemis funds to build a three-phase permanent base near the Moon’s south pole and pausing the planned Gateway orbital station.
Effective 23 March 2026, the FCC placed every future overseas-built home router on its Covered List, blocking entry unless the maker wins a “conditional approval” tied to shifting production to the United States.
On 23 March 2026, private firm Bureau 1440 used a Soyuz-2.1b to orbit the first 16 operational Rassvet low-Earth-orbit broadband satellites, moving the project from prototypes to an active build-out of a nationwide Starlink-style network.
On 23 March 2026 the World Meteorological Organization’s ‘State of the Global Climate 2025’ report debuted Earth’s energy imbalance as a headline indicator and confirmed it hit a new record in 2025, effectively committing the oceans to centuries of additional warming.
On 24 Mar 2026 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, acting on a White-House security determination, placed every consumer-grade router built abroad on its Covered List, freezing new imports and sales unless granted rare national-security exemptions.
On 21-22 March 2026 Elon Musk announced that Tesla, SpaceX and xAI will jointly build “Terafab,” a fully-vertical 2 nm semiconductor complex in Austin capable of producing up to one terawatt of compute per year—an order-of-magnitude jump over current global output.
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