• Volkswagen ID. 4 to be renamed as part of extensive facelift – report

    January 24, 2026

    The facelifted Volkswagen ID. 4 will not only feature a significantly redesigned exterior, but a new name as well. According to Automotive News, the heavily revised ID. 4 will be sold as the ID. Tiguan. The name change has been heavily hinted at and speculated about, but the industry publication says it was confirmed by IG Metall, the union representing the automaker’s German factory workers, at a press conference held last week at Volkswagen’s Emden plant. The Emden factory has been converted to EV-only production, and is currently one of two sites — along with Zwickau — in Germany manufacturing…

  • Netflix scores Oscar nominations for Frankenstein and KPop Demon Hunters

    January 24, 2026

    The nominees for the 2026 Academy Awards were just announced and Ryan Coogler’s vampire-adjacent period drama Sinners received a record-breaking 16 nominations. That’s the highest number of Oscar nominations for a single film in the history of the awards, followed by Titanic, La La Land and All About Eve with 14 noms each. Sinners grabbed a nomination in nearly every major category, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. The same goes for the performances, as Michael B. Jordan captured the nomination for Best Actor. Even Delroy Lindo got nominated for Best Supporting Actor, which is his very…

  • Gmail is having issues with spam and misclassification

    January 24, 2026

    If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly today, you’re not alone. The official status dashboard for Google Workspace suggests that the issues began at around 5am Pacific on Saturday morning, with users experiencing both “misclassification of emails in their inbox and additional spam warnings.” For me, that meant my Primary inbox was filled with messages that would normally appear in the Promotions, Social, or Updates inboxes, and that spam warnings were appearing in emails from known senders. Other users have complained on social media that “all the spam is going directly to my inbox” and that Gmail’s…

  • Alan Jones F1 car and Bathurst-winning Holden Commodore to star at 2026 Canberra Festival of Speed

    January 24, 2026

    The race car in which Australia’s most recent Formula 1 world champion and Australian Hall of Famer Alan Jones made his 100th world championship start will be a star attraction at the 2026 Canberra Festival of Speed next weekend. The 1985 Lola-Hart THL1 will be one of the major drawcards at this year’s event, alongside the Holden Commodore in which Larry Perkins won the 1997 Bathurst 1000. The two iconic racers will be among more than 200 entries at this year’s Canberra Festival of Speed, now in its third year, which will take place at Thoroughbred Park on the weekend…

  • AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU will arrive on January 29 and cost $499

    January 24, 2026

    At CES earlier this month, AMD announced the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, a more wallet-friendly take on its $700 9950X3D. The company promised the new chip would be out sometime in the first three months of the year, and it’s going to arrive a bit sooner than you might have expected. It can be all yours on January 29 for $499. AMD says the 9850X3D builds on the 9800X3D with an 400MHz upgrade to the boost clock. It can reach boost speeds of 5.6GHz. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is an 8-core CPU with 16 threads and 104MB of combined L2 and…

  • The best-looking vehicles in Australia in 2026

    January 24, 2026

    Taste is subjective, and that goes for car design, too. And isn’t that a good thing? Otherwise, we’d all be driving generic-looking, virtually indistinguishable SUVs and utes. Okay, so a lot of Australians are. Nevertheless, in our diverse market, if you look beyond the ubiquitous and often conservative mid-size SUVs and utes, you’ll find everything from fashionable French cars and futuristic Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) to flashy American pickups and SUVs, and seemingly everything in between. Those of us in the CarExpert editorial team have decided to share the vehicles we find the most attractive. Yes, we’re just judging a…

  • US Congress members call for ‘thorough review’ of EA’s $55 billion sale

    January 24, 2026

    Before Electronic Arts goes private in a groundbreaking sale, some US lawmakers are pleading for some federal oversight. Democratic members of the US Congress, as part of the Congressional Labor Caucus, penned a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission to “thoroughly review” the $55 billion acquisition of EA. EA confirmed the sale to the Public Investment Fund, or the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners in September, but the deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027. Before the official change of ownership, the 46 House Democrats who signed the letter to…

  • Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos

    January 24, 2026

    There were times at this week’s meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference, with on-stage appearances by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and even more industry executives. The big topic, unsurprisingly, was AI, with CEOs laying a vision for the technology’s transformative potential while also acknowledging ongoing concerns that they’re inflating a massive bubble. Amidst all that big-picture prognostication, they also found time to take swipes at their competitors, and even at their ostensible partners. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s…

  • Report reveals that OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia

    January 24, 2026

    OpenAI may have called GPT-5.2 its “most advanced frontier model for professional work,” but tests conducted by the Guardian cast doubt on its credibility. According to the report, OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model cited Grokipedia, the online encyclopedia powered by xAI, when it came to specific, but controversial topics related to Iran or the Holocaust. As seen in the Guardian‘s report, ChatGPT used Grokipedia as a source for claims about the Iranian government being tied to telecommunications company MTN-Irancell and questions related to Richard Evans, a British historian who served as an expert witness during a libel trial for Holocaust denier David…

  • SEC drops lawsuit against Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange

    January 24, 2026

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its lawsuit against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The Winklevoss twins were donors to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and also backed his family’s business ventures. In a joint filing on Friday, the SEC and Gemini asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, which centered on the collapse of an investment product called Gemini Earn, with some investors losing access to their money for 18 months. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Gemini in 2023 and accused the company of defrauding investors. To justify dismissing the SEC’s…