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BBC

  1. US and UK pulling some personnel from Qatar base as US considers Iran action
  2. Tehran morgue videos show the brutality of Iran's crackdown on protesters
  3. Faisal Islam: Why the Northern Powerhouse Rail plan will really go ahead this time
  4. Sting pays Police bandmates £600,000 in royalties
  5. US announces start of phase two of Gaza peace plan
  6. Swiss regions ban pyrotechnics in indoor public venues after ski bar fire
  7. Actor John Alford jailed for sex assaults on teens
  8. Amateur stuns world's best to win A$1m at Australian Open
  9. White House defends Trump over middle-finger gesture at heckler
  10. BBC on site after crane collapses and crushes train in Thailand
  11. Who is Erfan Soltani, Iranian protester reportedly facing execution?
  12. Trump vows 'very strong action' if Iran executes protesters
  13. Why there are protests in Iran and what Trump says about US action
  14. Bafta names rising stars who are tipped for film success
  15. Julian Barnes on his last novel: 'I hope it's a good one to go out on'
  16. After U-turn on mandatory digital IDs, how have Labour MPs responded?
  17. Why you're more like the Traitors than you think and how it could harm you
  18. Why has no English boss won Premier League - and who could be first?
  19. UK ready to 'tighten chokehold' on Russia's shadow fleet
  20. First leukaemia patient to get new form of treatment on NHS says it is 'very sci-fi'
  21. Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni cleared of cake fraud
  22. France bans 10 British 'far-right activists' over anti-migrant activity
  23. Judgement reserved in appeal against Kneecap member
  24. TGI Fridays closes 16 UK stores, with 456 job losses
  25. China announces record $1tn trade surplus despite Trump tariffs
  26. BBC News app
  27. The Sadiq Khan Interview
  28. Americanswers...On 5 Live! What do Americans really think of Donald Trump?
  29. Is Wenger's daylight idea the solution to fix offside?
  30. Tottenham sign Gallagher from Atletico for £35m
  31. England head coach Wane steps down in World Cup year
  32. Amateur stuns world's best to win A$1m in Melbourne
  33. Terrific Trump powers past Ding at Masters

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Verizon outage: Voice and data services down for many customers
  2. PS Plus Game Catalog additions for January include Resident Evil Village and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
  3. He could just turn it off
  4. How to turn off a VPN on iPhone
  5. Get three months of Audible for only $3
  6. The first-gen Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones are $150 off right now
  7. The latest Animal Crossing: New Horizons expansion has arrived earlier than expected
  8. The Mac mini M4 is back on sale for $499
  9. Gemini can now pull context the rest of your Google apps, if you let it
  10. YouTube adds more parental controls, including a way to block teens from watching Shorts
  11. Our favorite 3-in-1 wireless charger from UGreen is 32 percent off right now
  12. The Nintendo Switch 2025 year in review is finally here
  13. Pick up Apple's 25W MagSafe charger while it's down to $30
  14. NVIDIA rolls out DLSS 4.5 to all RTX GPUs
  15. Monarch Money deal: New users can get one year of access for only $50
  16. Fender's guitar lessons are coming to Samsung TVs later this year
  17. Bandcamp prohibits music made ‘wholly or in substantial part’ by AI
  18. Elevation Lab's extended battery AirTag case is down to only $16
  19. Get one month of the Disney+ and Hulu bundle for only $10
  20. Matthew McConaughey fights unauthorized AI likenesses by trademarking himself
  21. Tesla's Full Self-Driving is switching to a subscription-only service
  22. UK scraps digital ID requirement for workers
  23. The best USB-C hub for 2026
  24. Meta has closed three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
  25. Roblox's age verification system is reportedly a trainwreck
  26. Instagram wants you to personalize your Reels algorithm for 2026
  27. Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes
  28. Proposed legislation opens the door to robotaxi services in New York
  29. Taiwan issues arrest warrant for Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus
  30. EA delays Battlefield 6 Season 2 to February 17
  31. NBA League Pass is up to 55 percent off right now
  32. Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, a version of its coding AI for regular people
  33. reMarkable E Ink tablet bundles are up to $90 off right now
  34. Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin
  35. Apple bundles creative apps such as Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro into a single subscription
  36. Anker's Solix E10 battery backup can power your entire house in a blackout
  37. Tesla launches a seven-seat version of the 2026 Model Y
  38. Star Wars Outlaws developer Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm face layoffs
  39. A Resident Evil showcase is taking place on January 15
  40. AirTags are back on sale, with a four-pack going for $65
  41. Insta360 releases AI-powered follow-up to its Link webcams
  42. The Morning After: Apple will use Gemini to power Siri AI
  43. Proton's Lumo AI chatbot now has an encrypted space for your projects
  44. The best streaming devices for 2026
  45. Framework increases Desktop prices by up to $460 due to RAM crisis
  46. Lego's first Pokémon sets are now available for pre-order
  47. Dell revives its XPS laptops after a boneheaded rebranding
  48. CES 2026 proved the PC industry is hosed this year
  49. Mark Zuckerberg announces new 'Meta Compute' initiative for its data center and AI projects
  50. Paramount won't quit, files suit against Warner Bros. Discovery over rejected bid

Pinboard

  1. 2026 is the Year of Self-hosting
  2. Don't fall into the anti-AI hype -
  3. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – no.heger — via https://wien.rocks/@noheger/115877698373215218 via https://todon.eu/@jalcine/115878519791411091
  4. Git Rebase for the Terrified | Aaron Brethorst
  5. How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash — it’s really important that a new technology have a real problem that it’s trying to solve,
  6. GitHub - MedUnes/go-kata: A collection of daily coding challenges designed to help you master idiomatic Go through deliberate, repetitive practice.
  7. GitHub - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader: A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud — iCloud Photos Downloader A command-line tool to download all your iCloud photos. Works on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Run as a scheduled cron task to keep a local backup of your photos and videos. This tool is deve…
  8. Date is out, Temporal is in - Piccalilli
  9. iCloud Photos Downloader | Hacker News
  10. The Concise TypeScript Book — The Concise TypeScript Book provides a comprehensive and succinct overview of TypeScript's capabilities. It offers clear explanations covering all aspects found in the latest version of the language, from its powerful type system to advanced features. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced …
  11. Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell - Federal Reserve Board — January 11, 2026Transcript (PDF) Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June. Th…
  12. GitHub - vercel-labs/agent-browser: Browser automation CLI for AI agents
  13. AddyOsmani.com - The Next Two Years of Software Engineering — Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...
  14. Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging - Ars Technica
  15. You probably don't need Oh My Zsh | Artem Golubin — The fzf zsh plugin is a nice tip.
  16. Stateful sandboxes
  17. GitHub - tw93/Mole: 🦡 Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac. 🦡 像鼹鼠一样深入挖掘来清理您的 Mac
  18. Elo — An expression language — A simple, well-designed, portable, and safe data expression language Elo compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL. Built for No-Code tools where non-technical users need to manipulate data easily and safely. Try it now Get started = Simple by Design A pure data language: everything is a value, n…
  19. FUSE is All You Need - Giving agents access to anything via filesystems | Jakob Emmerling
  20. Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C. — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587804
  21. Daring Fireball: ‘Fuck You, Make Me’ Without Saying the Words — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Ecg80ON
  22. Mind the gap: Winning the battle for consumer attention | McKinsey
  23. Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year
  24. Text-based web browsers - CSSence.com — https://lobste.rs/s/atz78i/text_based_web_browsers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597518
  25. Open-Meteo.com - free weather forecast APIs for open-source developers and non-commercial use — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28499910
  26. 2026 is the Year of Self-hosting | Hacker News
  27. LLVM: The bad parts — via @whitequark@treehouse.systems boost of https://mastodon.social/@nikic/115877895206780723
  28. Joint statement from Google and Apple — Feels a lot like Maps and the initial iPhone.
  29. Uncrossy
  30. GitHub - RhetTbull/osxphotos: Provides read-only access to Apple's Photos app library on MacOS. Includes command line tool for querying the Photos database. NOTE: Alpha support for Mac OS 10.15 / Photos 5 which required significant re-write. — jaygooby starred RhetTbull/osxphotos
  31. Jan 10, 2026 · Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t. The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch. — In the past, if you had a specific problem, you’d spend hours searching for a SaaS product that solved 80% of it. Today, the workflow has shifted. …
  32. 步道 --- 小径
  33. Pebble founder says his new company is 'not a startup' | TechCrunch — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/4H5b2OY
  34. How to downgrade macOS update: Rollback Tahoe to Sequoia | Macworld — from Macworld - News, Tips & Reviews from the Apple Experts https://ift.tt/E5j7uLP
  35. AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them • The Register
  36. Hacker News Book Recommendations
  37. enclose.horse — https://github.com/langarus/enclosure.horse-solution
  38. A Software Library with No Code
  39. PMU Counters on Apple Silicon | Bugsik
  40. Cursor agent best practices — A comprehensive guide to working with coding agents, from starting with plans to managing context, customizing workflows, and reviewing code.
  41. Prisoners of Fortune - by Hamilton Nolan - How Things Work
  42. we rolled our own documentation site
  43. AddyOsmani.com - 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
  44. 2025 letter | Dan Wang
  45. Daring Fireball: Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/4H5b2OY
  46. Welcome to Gas Town. Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium
  47. Photos Backup Anywhere — 1-Click Photo Library Backup
  48. We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
  49. Introducing Cowork | Claude | Claude
  50. 7,000-year-old underwater wall raises questions about ancient engineering — and lost-city legends - Big Think
  51. Lend Me Your Ears — "This is a musical ear training game where you listen to melodies and play them back by ear."
  52. GitHub - karol-broda/snitch: a prettier way to inspect network connections
  53. ‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body | Plastics | The Guardian — "One of the team behind the letter was blunt. “The brain microplastic paper is a joke,” said Dr Dušan Materić, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. “Fat is known to make false-positives for poly…
  54. Six Prosecutors Quit Over DOJ Push to Investigate Renee Good’s Widow - The New York Times
  55. Simple Claude Code — A short program building a functional AI agent system like Claude Code
  56. The coolest feature in Python 3.14 | Savannah Ostrowski — "With sys.remote_exec(), we can execute a Python script inside another running process all without restarting it. The script runs with full access to the target’s memory, modules, and state, which is exactly what you need to start a debug server on-demand."
  57. 我的 2025 年度自托管服务报告 — 一份我在 2025 年持续运行的自托管服务清单，并进行了一些梳理和总结。
  58. Chicken Piccata Pasta Recipe
  59. 1rgs/nanocode: Minimal Claude Code alternative. Single Python file, zero dependencies, ~250 lines.
  60. K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills: A set of ready to use scientific skills for Claude — A set of ready to use scientific skills for Claude - K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills
  61. How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance | WIRED — For the last several nights, militarized police in cities across the United States have deployed armored vehicles and rubber bullets against protestors and bystanders alike.
  62. Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - Martin Alderson
  63. No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams — ABLG is a personal blog post aimed at Seed/Series A founders and early engineering leaders, outlining “no management needed” as an anti-pattern and describing common team/coordination failure modes that show up when management work is avoided.
  64. EktuPy - Learn Python Through Games — * https://kushaldas.in/posts/introducing-ektupy.html *** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551352 * https://pypi.org/project/pygbag/
  65. WikiFlix — Wikidata has over 33 thousand items for movies that have fallen into the public domain. A fraction of these items (~1300 at the time of writing) have a video file, either at Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube. WikiFlix is a bespoke interface to browse, search, and view these movies, and informa…
  66. The America That Could Be — The America That Could Be The main point of Adam Bonica’s post The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls is about the optimism of this moment: that the US could be ripe for a Berlin…
  67. fastscheduler: Decorator-first Python scheduler — cron/interval/at jobs with simple persistence and built-in run history. — https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1qaxl4q/i_built_a_decoratorfirst_task_scheduler_because_i/
  68. The Concise TypeScript Book | TypeScript Book
  69. How to Make a Damn Website
  70. I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too — With the growing number of users jumping from Windows to Linux, I decided to fully take the plunge and dive deep into the Open Source ocean. A few months and several headaches later, it has proved to be the best computer-related decision I've made in over a decade (and perh…
  71. C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories | Hacker News
  72. What Makes the Iranian Protests Different This Time | The New Yorker
  73. This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser. :: Kamila Szewczyk
  74. ZIPAIR Official Website — low cost flights from San Jose and Los Angeles to Tokyo
  75. Living without America | Status-Q
  76. qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local
  77. AI is a business model stress test | Dries Buytaert — "AI commoditizes anything you can fully specify. Documentation, pre-built card components, a CSS library, Open Source plugins. Tailwind's commercial offering was built on "specifications". AI made those things trivial to generate. AI can ship a specification but it can't …
  78. My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated, Literally
  79. opencode
  80. Open Culture: J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)
  81. How to know if that job will crush your soul - Anil Dash
  82. GitHub - dbreunig/whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code. — via: https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/01/08/a-software-library-with-no-code.html via: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/10/a-software-library-with-no-code/
  83. the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose - alchemystique - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — Yuna Hollander works through years of memories in attempt to discover when she should have known her son didn't trust her with all of himself. --excellent Yuna character study. Made me cry
  84. Why Stoicism is one of the best mind hacks ever devised | Hacker News
  85. Why We Built Our Own Background Agent — Ramp Builders Blog
  86. Keeping 20,000 GPUs healthy
  87. MTV REWIND - Music Television
  88. Postal Arbitrage
  89. The Normalization of Deviance in AI · Embrace The Red
  90. If users notice your software, you’re already a loser – Pivot to AI
  91. Brands say Amazon's 'Buy for Me' is listing products without permission
  92. GitHub - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM: An LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias
  93. Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak – Mitchell Hashimoto — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794 https://lobste.rs/s/vlzg2m/finding_fixing_ghostty_s_largest_memory
  94. The best flu drug Americans aren't taking | The Atlantic — Antiviral drugs for influenza, the best known of which is Tamiflu, are not exactly miracle cures. But amid possibly the worst flu season in 25 years, driven by a variant imperfectly matched to the vaccine, these underused drugs can make a bout of flu a little less mi…
  95. Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow | The Guardian
  96. How To Analyze Your Chess Games - Chess.com
  97. GitHub - ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills: A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows
  98. Docker Made Easy — Learn Docker Internals
  99. Taiwan push to power AI with green energy hurts rural communities - Rest of World — Hsiuwen Liu: For generations, Li Cheng-chieh and his family have lived off the tidal flats along Taiwan’s west coast, harvesting oysters and selling them to homes and in local markets. Four years ago, thick cables to transmit power from a new…
  100. それ、本当に安全？ ファイルアップロードで見落としがちなセキュリティリスクと対策 - Speaker Deck

The Next Web

  1. Belgian cybersecurity startup becomes unicorn
  2. Introducing TNW Council
  3. When shopping stops being a place
  4. AI Skills
  5. AI is old news. Generative AI is the future.
  6. Are Tech giants killing cold outreach?
  7. ChatGPT Health has arrived
  8. Who decides the best AI?
  9. Big stages, smaller impact.
  10. Five stars, Zero trust

Smashing Magazine

  1. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  2. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  3. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  4. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  5. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  6. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
  7. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
  8. How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  9. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  10. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  11. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
  12. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
  13. Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
  14. Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
  15. A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  16. The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
  17. Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)
  18. Designing For Stress And Emergency
  19. Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects
  20. From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation
  21. CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers
  22. Older Tech In The Browser Stack
  23. Effectively Monitoring Web Performance
  24. Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties
  25. Six Key Components of UX Strategy
  26. How To Leverage Component Variants In Penpot
  27. Fading Light And Falling Leaves (November 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  28. JavaScript For Everyone: Iterators
  29. Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)
  30. AI In UX: Achieve More With Less
  31. How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore
  32. The Grayscale Problem
  33. Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With ``, ``, And CSS Media Queries
  34. Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2)
  35. Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  36. From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant
  37. Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1)
  38. Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)
  39. The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence
  40. How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website

Wirecutter

  1. The Best OLED TV
  2. The Best Personal Blender
  3. The Best Gaming Keyboards
  4. The Best Nonstick Pan
  5. The Best Coffee Grinder
  6. The Best Nonalcoholic Wines
  7. The Best Soundbar
  8. The 24 Best Galentine’s Day Gifts
  9. The 32 Best Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Gifts
  10. Inside Wirecutter’s Mystery Pallet Adventure

Sweethome

  1. The Best Hex Wrenches
  2. The Best Smart Water-Leak Detector
  3. In Praise of Adult Blankies
  4. The Best Indoor Security Camera
  5. The Best Mattress for Back Pain
  6. The $5 Tool That Fixed My Lumpy, Moldy Bathtub Caulk
  7. My Favorite Dusting Tool Is My Clothes Dryer
  8. The $650 LifeStraw Max Water Filter Can Save You From Contaminated Water
  9. The Best Shower Curtains
  10. Our Favorite Scented Candles

Hacker News

  1. So, You've Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
  2. Why some clothes shrink in the wash – and how to 'unshrink' them
  3. Find a pub that needs you
  4. Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
  5. Starlink roam 50GB is now 100GB with unlimited slow speed after that
  6. Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
  7. The Unbearable Frustration of Figuring Out APIs
  8. Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)
  9. There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
  10. I built Vector. Now I'm answering the question your observability vendor won't
  11. Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language
  12. Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps
  13. Xoscript
  14. Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and Ghostwriter?
  15. I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
  16. Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK
  17. How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
  18. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
  19. Lago (Open-Source Billing) is hiring across teams and geos
  20. I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion
  21. GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
  22. 1000 Blank White Cards
  23. System Programming in Linux: A Hands-On Introduction "Demo" Programs
  24. Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (
  25. 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin
  26. A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap
  27. Every GitHub object has two IDs
  28. FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
  29. ASCII Clouds
  30. Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical"

Ars Technica

  1. Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems—then had massive stroke
  2. Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach
  3. Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers
  4. Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans
  5. EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines
  6. Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes.
  7. BMW’s first electric M car is coming in 2027—with one motor per wheel
  8. The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”
  9. Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”
  10. Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics
  11. FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
  12. Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month
  13. Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers
  14. Google’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling
  15. Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests
  16. EPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air
  17. Apple’s Mac and iPad creative apps get bundled into “Creator Studio” subscription
  18. Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, dead at 68
  19. This one could use less power: The Jeep Wagoneer S EV
  20. A new Titan emerges in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 teaser

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New Scientist

  1. Woolly rhino genome recovered from meat in frozen wolf pup’s stomach
  2. Sinking river deltas put millions at risk of flooding
  3. Psychiatry has finally found an objective way to spot mental illness
  4. China has applied to launch 200,000 satellites, but what are they for?
  5. T. rex took 40 years to become fully grown
  6. Three ways to become calmer this New Year that you haven't tried (yet)
  7. We must completely change the way we build homes to stay below 2°C
  8. Sooner-than-expected climate impacts could cost the world trillions
  9. These small lifestyle tweaks can add a year to your life
  10. The hunt for where the last Neanderthals lived
  11. The Pacific Islanders fighting to save their homes from catastrophe
  12. Greenland sharks survive for centuries with diseased hearts
  13. We're about to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer
  14. Pompeii’s public baths were unhygienic until the Romans took over
  15. Quantum computers could help sharpen images of exoplanets
  16. Our elegant universe: rethinking nature’s deepest principle
  17. Is there an evolutionary reason for same-sex sexual behaviour?
  18. Why it’s easy to be misunderstood when talking about probability
  19. Making autism into a partisan issue can only be harmful
  20. Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2
  21. How rethinking your relationship with time could give you more of it
  22. Why my 2026 fitness resolution is all about getting mobile
  23. The secret weapon that could finally force climate action
  24. The science-fiction films to look forward to in 2026
  25. NASA is performing an unprecedented medical evacuation from the ISS
  26. Microbiome study hints that fibre could be linked to better sleep
  27. What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong?
  28. Why does the United States want to buy Greenland?
  29. Quantum neural network may be able to cheat the uncertainty principle
  30. You can upgrade your immune system, but not in the way you think
  31. Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us
  32. A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life
  33. A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw
  34. Man whose gut made its own alcohol gets relief from faecal transplant
  35. 'Knitted' satellite launching to monitor Earth's surface with radar
  36. City-sized iceberg has turned into a giant swimming pool
  37. These images explore a 'utopic' village built for teaching maths
  38. Tree bark microbiome has important overlooked role in climate
  39. Some quantum computers might need more power than supercomputers
  40. Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans
  41. I'm calling it – 2026 is going to be the year of the galaxy
  42. Red tattoo ink causes man to lose all his hair and stop sweating
  43. Passwords will be on the way out in 2026 as passkeys take over
  44. Why connecting with nature shouldn't mean disconnecting from science
  45. The best new science-fiction shows of 2026
  46. Exercise may relieve depression as effectively as antidepressants
  47. Weight regain seems to occur within 2 years of stopping obesity drugs
  48. Hunting with poison arrows may have begun 60,000 years ago in Africa
  49. Super-low-density worlds reveal how common planetary systems form
  50. Early humans may have begun butchering elephants 1.8 million years ago
  51. AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about women's health
  52. CAR T-cell therapy makes ageing guts heal themselves
  53. The first quantum fluctuations set into motion a huge cosmic mystery
  54. Jellyfish sleep about as much as humans do – and nap like us too
  55. The first commercial space stations will start orbiting Earth in 2026
  56. US will need both carrots and sticks to reach net zero
  57. BepiColombo mission will start to unpick Mercury's secrets in 2026
  58. Northern Greenland ice dome melted before and could melt again
  59. Weird clump in the early universe is piping hot and we don’t know why
  60. El Niño was linked to famines in Europe in the early modern period
  61. The best new popular science books of January 2026
  62. 2026 will shed light on whether a little-known drug helps with autism
  63. Ghostly particles might just break our understanding of the universe
  64. A strange kind of quantumness may be key to quantum computers' success
  65. Controversial satellites launching in 2026 will reflect light to Earth
  66. The best new science fiction books of January 2026
  67. 2026 is set to be an even bigger year for weight-loss drugs
  68. See how fire has changed the world's largest wetland, the Pantanal
  69. Why stroking seedlings can help them grow big and strong
  70. Why I'm going to reap the mental health benefits of stargazing in 2026
  71. Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?
  72. Russia-US nuclear pact is about to end and we won't see another
  73. Gargantuan black hole may be a remnant from the dawn of the universe
  74. Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces
  75. The cost of weight-loss drugs should fall in 2026
  76. Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master
  77. The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot
  78. Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
  79. Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA due to rare condition
  80. The best new popular science books of 2026
  81. The best new science fiction books of 2026
  82. Rare Saturn-sized rogue planet is first to have its mass measured
  83. World's first subsea desalination facility will start running in 2026
  84. 2026 Mars mission will set out to solve the mystery of its moons
  85. Could James and the Giant Peach inspire the future of food?
  86. The weight-loss drugs on trial in 2026 may trump Ozempic and Zepbound
  87. The 3 things you should do this New Year to foster a positive mindset
  88. US to fire up small reactors in 2026 as part of 'nuclear renaissance'
  89. Could 2026 be the year we start using quantum computers for chemistry?
  90. The emotion you never knew you had, and how to feel more of it
  91. EU carbon border tax will force others to cut emissions from 2026
  92. Three supermassive black holes have been spotted merging into one
  93. We'll learn about LSD's potential for treating anxiety in 2026
  94. The duo kite-skiing 4000 kilometres across Antarctica for science
  95. Star that seemed to vanish more than 130 years ago is found again
  96. Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025
  97. The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished
  98. The cassette tape made a comeback in 2025 thanks to a DNA upgrade
  99. The best and most ridiculous robots of 2025 in pictures
  100. A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025

Slashdot

  1. Coal Power Generation Falls in China and India for First Time Since 1970s
  2. McKinsey Asks Graduates To Use AI Chatbot in Recruitment Process
  3. Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched
  4. Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself To Fight AI Misuse
  5. UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake
  6. Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
  7. Nuclear Weapons Are Now ESG Compliant
  8. Never-Before-Seen Linux Malware Is 'Far More Advanced Than Typical'
  9. NASA, Department of Energy To Develop Lunar Surface Reactor By 2030
  10. Iran Shuts Down Musk's Starlink For First Time
  11. Doubt Cast On Discovery of Microplastics Throughout Human Body
  12. Pentagon Device Linked To Havana Syndrome
  13. Meta Closes Three VR Studios As Part of Its Metaverse Cuts
  14. Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue
  15. Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Industrial Designer Martina Claesson's Plinth Stool
  2. From Germany, a Ferris-Wheel-Style Industrial Storage System
  3. Knockdown, Flatpack Adjustable Children's Furniture Designed by Luigi Colani
  4. When Beautiful Design Crashes Into Reality
  5. A Stylish, More Functional Update to the Granny Cart
  6. A Vertical Wind Turbine for Sailboat Masts
  7. Design Criticism: Are These Transitions Good or Bad?
  8. Rimowa and Vitra's Luggage-like Aluminum Stool
  9. Industrial Designer Sabine Marcelis Upgrade's Ikea's Hot-Selling Lamp
  10. Gensler's Zhaoxiong Han on Architecture's Power to Connect
  11. Momentum Studio's Haptic Momentum Calendar
  12. A Bizarre Book-Based Furniture Piece from 1939
  13. An Infinity Mirror Key Hanger for People Who REALLY Love Their Car
  14. Core77 Weekly Roundup (1-5-26 to 1-9-26)
  15. Bookmarker: A Minimalist Furniture Piece for Book Lovers

CNET

  1. 'The Traitors' Season 4: Streaming Time and Episode Release Schedule
  2. These 20 Kitchen Gadgets Are Absolutely Useless, According to Chefs
  3. Copa del Rey: How to Watch Albacete vs. Real Madrid Soccer Livestream From Anywhere
  4. Nigeria vs. Morocco Livestream: How to Watch Africa Cup of Nations Semifinal Soccer From Anywhere
  5. Chelsea vs. Arsenal Livestream: How to Watch Carabao Cup Semifinal Soccer From Anywhere
  6. Best Smart Thermostats of 2026: Master Your Temps
  7. Tesla Shifting 'Full Self-Driving' Software to a Subscription-Only Service
  8. Best Standing Desks of 2026
  9. Bundesliga Soccer Livestream: How to Watch Köln vs. Bayern Munich
  10. Best Desks of 2026: I’ve Spent Nearly 4,000 Hours Testing Desks. These Are the Ones You Want
  11. Gemini's New 'Personalized Intelligence' Uses Your Photos and Gmail to Customize Responses
  12. If Your iPhone's Battery is Draining Faster After iOS 26.2, Don't Worry
  13. 18 Myths About Your Health You Can Ignore in 2026
  14. Best No-Contract Internet Providers for January 2026
  15. Should You Be Using Beef Tallow on Your Skin? What Dermatologists Think About the Latest Trend
  16. Insta360 X4 Air 360 Camera Review: Tinier Planets
  17. Don't Keep Paying for Expensive Streaming Services. Here's How to Cancel Them
  18. Senegal vs. Egypt Livestream: How to Watch Africa Cup of Nations Semifinal Soccer From Anywhere
  19. 54 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Will Keep You Entertained
  20. Best Tax Software for Freelancers, Gig Workers or Self-Employed
  21. See This New Smart Thermostat Double as a Display for Your Video Doorbell
  22. I Tested the New $300 Moto G Power: Great Battery Life but Not Enough Elsewhere
  23. Make Your Favorite Pet Photo a Cute iPhone Emoji You Can Share Anywhere
  24. Get Ready for 2026: 15 New Movies We Think Everyone Will Be Talking About
  25. How to Get Paid for Your Old TV

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide
  2. Gemini is winning
  3. The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations
  4. X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK
  5. UK digital ID plans will no longer be mandatory
  6. Civilization VII is coming to Apple Arcade
  7. Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling
  8. Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube
  9. Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content
  10. DJI Neo 2 review: I guess I’m a drone guy now

Wired

  1. Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore
  2. Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story
  3. In Photos: One Week Since the Shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
  4. 15 Best Office Chairs of 2026— I’ve Tested 65 to Pick Them
  5. WIRED Tested Dozens of Blenders. These Are Our 8 Favorites (2026)
  6. The Merach Vibration Plate Is the Funniest Workout I've Ever Done
  7. How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts
  8. HHKB Professional Classic Type-S Review: A Brilliant but Niche Keyboard
  9. TikTok Shop Showed Me Search Suggestions for Products With Nazi Symbolism
  10. Best Bone Conduction Headphones (2026): Shokz, Suunto, Mojawa
  11. 7 Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  12. $50 Target Promo Code & Coupons | January 2026
  13. Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: $5,000+ Off
  14. Google Workspace Promo Code: Up to 14% Off in 2026
  15. The Fight on Capitol Hill to Make It Easier to Fix Your Car
  16. The 51 Best Shows on Hulu, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)
  17. Everything Is Content for the ‘Clicktatorship’
  18. Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess
  19. Shortcut Your System With a Discounted Elgato Stream Deck +
  20. China’s Hottest App Is a Daily Test of Whether You’re Still Alive

LifeHacker

  1. You Can Now Block Your Kids From Watching YouTube Shorts
  2. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones
  3. Do You Really Need Rest Days In Your Exercise Routine?
  4. Why TikTokers Are Injecting Salmon Sperm Into Their Faces
  5. Google Gemini Is About to Get to Know You Way Better
  6. This App Brings Some of My Favorite Windows Features to Mac
  7. Smart Glasses Are About to Have a Big Year
  8. Betterment Users Are Being Targeted in This Crypto Scam
  9. Microsoft's Latest Patch Tuesday Fixes 114 Vulnerabilities
  10. This App Updates All Your Mac Apps in One Place
  11. Google Is Changing Its Account Policy About Minors Who Turn 13
  12. This Bose Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker Is $100 Right Now
  13. Check This iPhone Setting to Make Texting Better for Everyone
  14. This Budget 65-Inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over $300 Off
  15. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  16. This Free Android App Blocks Useless Notifications and Lets Important Ones Through
  17. I Finally Got My Hands on Oura’s New Charging Case
  18. This Little-Known Peloton Feature Customizes Instructor-Led Classes for You
  19. How Your Child's Google Account Changes When They Turn 13
  20. The Seven Best Tool Box Accessories Everyone Should Have
  21. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Samsung Odyssey G5 Gaming Monitor
  22. 10 Hacks Every Gmail User Should Know
  23. X Is Currently Down
  24. 10 Hacks Every Google Maps User Should Know
  25. Find Free Movies (Legally) With WikiFlix, a Database of Films in the Public Domain
  26. These Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are Under $100 Right Now
  27. Microsoft Is Finally Retiring Its Free Scanner App (but There Are Alternatives)
  28. Sony's Flagship Portable Speaker Is $110 Off Right Now
  29. This Smart Ring Tracks Sleep Apnea, and It’s $60 Off Right Now
  30. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Do You Have a 'Choppelganger'?
  31. Microsoft Is Finally Working on a Worthy Answer to Apple's 'Handoff' Feature
  32. What Counts As Cardio (and What Doesn't)
  33. This Asus Gaming Monitor Is $160 Off Right Now
  34. Apple Is Asking Its Biggest Competitor for Some Help With AI
  35. Four Ways to Speed Up Your Hot Water (Without Installing a Tankless Water Heater)
  36. This Is Why You're Having Trouble Resizing Windows in macOS Tahoe
  37. You Don't Need to Worry About That Security Email From Instagram
  38. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The 77-inch Sony Bravia A95L OLED TV
  39. The New Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool Is Nearly 25% Off Right Now
  40. 10 Hacks Every Apple TV User Should Know
  41. Samsung's Flagship 4K QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Is $540 Off Right Now
  42. The JBL Endurance Peak 3 Earphones Are 40% Off Right Now
  43. Explore This Crowdsourced Archive of Vintage Cassette Recordings
  44. The Five Weirdest AI Inventions I Saw at CES 2026
  45. The Biggest Fitness Trends at CES 2026 (and What I Think About Them)
  46. This Is the Best Firewall App for Mac I've Ever Used, and It's Free
  47. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are the Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  48. How to Delete 'Bloatware' From Your Android (and Why You Should)
  49. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 Is Back to Its Lowest-Ever Price
  50. YouTube Now Lets You Filter Shorts Out of Search
  51. 10 Hacks Every Kindle User Should Know
  52. These Premium Earbuds Are Over $100 Right Now
  53. These Stylish Marshall Headphones Are $100 Off Right Now
  54. 15 Shows Like 'Fallout' You Should Watch Next
  55. The Newest Apple Watch Is $100 Off Right Now
  56. The Secret Microsoft App That Improves How I Use Windows
  57. Why Tech Launches Stopped Feeling Magical
  58. These Popular Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Your AI Chats
  59. This Samsung 65-Inch QLED TV Is $400 Off Right Now
  60. The ‘Now You See Me’ Franchise Explained in 10 Infographics
  61. Google's Getting Rid of a Way to Import Third-Party Accounts Into Gmail
  62. Use RICE to Prioritize Your To-Dos
  63. Why I Won't Be Giving ChatGPT Health My Medical Records
  64. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The AirPods Pro 3
  65. There's Actually a Way to Mix and Match Your Cordless Tool Batteries
  66. Gmail Is Getting AI-Powered Search and Proofreading Features
  67. Garmin Now Has Nutrition Tracking (for a Price)
  68. The Oura Ring Charging Case Is Finally Available
  69. Your Smartwatch Actually Has No Idea How 'Stressed' You Are
  70. CES 2026 Live: The Biggest, Coolest, and Weirdest Updates From Tech's Big Event in Las Vegas
  71. The Meta Quest Pro Is Over $300 Off Right Now
  72. The Official 'Best of CES' 2026 Award Winners Were Announced, Featuring 22 Remarkable Advances in Technology
  73. CES 2026: I Saw a Robot Vacuum With Legs Climb a Flight of Stairs
  74. CES 2026: Gaming Controllers Are Going Modular This Year
  75. CES 2026: Ford Is Launching Its Own AI Assistant
  76. This Double-Screen Laptop Display Extender Is 35% Off Right Now
  77. This Free Script Disables Every AI Feature in Windows 11
  78. You Can Get the CMF Nothing Headphone Pros for $79 Right Now
  79. Turn on 'App Pinning' Before Letting Someone Else Use Your Android
  80. How 'Cognitive Overload' Might Be Hampering Your Productivity
  81. 15 Shows Like 'Stranger Things' You Should Watch Next
  82. CES 2026: WheelMove Turns Any Standard Wheelchair Into an Electric One
  83. Four Ways to Keep Your House Warm When the Heat Goes Out
  84. CES 2026: You Can Chain 100 of These Ikea Bluetooth Speakers Together
  85. CES 2026: I Made Fun of My Daughter, but This Rideable Luggage Made Me a Believer
  86. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The 2025 Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra
  87. CES 2026: This Accessory Can Turn Your MacBook’s Display Into a Touchscreen
  88. The Google Nest Wifi Pro Mesh Router Is 50% Off Right Now
  89. 10 Hacks Every Garmin Watch User Should Know
  90. The Milwaukee Tools I Personally Use Are up to 50% Off Right Now
  91. How to Choose the Right VPN for You
  92. CES 2026: Everything You Need to Know About the World's Biggest Tech Show
  93. CES 2026: Nvidia's Updated DLSS Makes Games Run Worse on Older GPUs
  94. This Radar-Equipped Stove Shutoff Is One of the Most Practical Things I Saw at CES
  95. CES 2026: This Lenovo Gaming Laptop Can Stretch From 16:9 to ‘Ultrawide’ With the Push of a Button
  96. CES 2026: Lenovo Just Quietly Announced the Most Powerful 'Steam Deck' Yet
  97. CES 2026: Lenovo's New 'AI Frame' Gaming Monitor Might Actually Just Be Cheating
  98. CES 2026: This Tiny Computer Is like a Mac Mini for PC Users
  99. CES 2026: This Laptop Can Nod Yes or No When You Ask It a Question
  100. CES 2026: XREAL's New Smart Glasses Put a Massive Gaming Monitor Right on Your Face

The Onion

The Register

  1. Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power
  2. There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications
  3. France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach
  4. Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version
  5. 'Imagination the limit': DeadLock ransomware gang using smart contracts to hide their work
  6. AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits
  7. Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around
  8. Cyber-stricken Belgian hospitals refuse ambulances, transfer critical patients
  9. Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details
  10. UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work
  11. Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told
  12. Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets
  13. Spanish power giant sparks breach probe amid claims of massive data grab
  14. Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea
  15. Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security
  16. India’s flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row
  17. Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue
  18. Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format
  19. Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm
  20. Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows
  21. Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack
  22. Anthropic Claude wants to be your helpful colleague, always looking over your shoulder
  23. Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay
  24. SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble
  25. Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services
  26. AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030
  27. Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades
  28. Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow
  29. Dutch cops cuff alleged AVCheck malware kingpin in Amsterdam
  30. Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar
  31. Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list
  32. Mandiant open sources tool to prevent leaky Salesforce misconfigs
  33. Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware
  34. Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data
  35. Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board
  36. Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back
  37. Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott
  38. Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows
  39. Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware
  40. India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real
  41. No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher
  42. 'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway
  43. Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters
  44. Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote
  45. Apple hopes to save Siri from laughingstock status with infusion of Google Gemini
  46. Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
  47. PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory
  48. Mall display crashes the vibe with Windows activation nag
  49. Businesses in 2026: Maybe we should finally look into that AI security stuff
  50. Don’t bother with the retailer’s website, says Google: Gemini can shop for you

TechMeme

  1. Verizon says it is "aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services for some customers", as thousands of users report no cellular reception (Jacob Krol/TechRadar)
  2. California AG Rob Bonta opens an investigation into xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by Grok, and urges xAI to act (Politico)
  3. Elon Musk claims he's "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok's operating principle is to "obey the laws of any given country" (Reuters)
  4. Depthfirst, which provides AI tools for codebase scanning, credential exposure protection, and threat monitoring, raised a $40M Series A led by Accel Partners (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
  5. Google launches Personal Intelligence, a Gemini feature that links to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to tailor answers, for paid subscribers (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
  6. Sources: the Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with cyberattacks (Adam Sella/New York Times)
  7. Dutch court hearing: Nexperia claims Chinese owner Wingtech pushed for tech transfers out of Europe and threatened execs; Wingtech attacks Nexperia's management (Bloomberg)
  8. Belgium-based Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised a $60M Series B led by DST Global at a $1B valuation (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
  9. Source: Microsoft has become one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic's AI to power Microsoft products (The Information)
  10. Tel Aviv- and Boston-based IO River, which helps companies manage multiple CDN and edge networks, raised a $20M Series A led by Venture Guides and New Era (Chris Metinko/Axios)
  11. UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report (Tom Warren/The Verge)
  12. Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B+ valuation, up from ~$4.5B in June 2025 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
  13. Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led the generative AI and Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to add more AI to its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
  14. Polymarket is hosting a growing number of contracts tied to military conflicts, including China invading Taiwan; possible US strikes in Iran has $18M+ in trades (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)
  15. Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next generation, asking candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study during a test (Financial Times)