Tech

Microsoft fixes bug causing password sign-in option to disappear (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-2 Microsoft

Prep for Azure certifications for $40 in this online course deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-2

How Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that raised $20M+, helped move money in and out of Venezuela and now faces cutoffs from banks and payment networks (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 Startup Venezuela

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-2 AI Elon Musk

xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (x.com)
2026-2-2

How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2

Sources: SpaceX is in advanced talks to combine with xAI and they have informed some of their investors, as Elon Musk moves quickly to consolidate his empire (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 Elon Musk SpaceX

NationStates confirms data breach, shuts down game site (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-2

The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2

Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns of “technical limitations” in the implementation (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-2 Australia Ban

China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is bumping against its aim to control it; Zhipu warned IPO investors about the burden of complying with 6+ AI rules (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2 China IPO AI

A look at Polymarket's rise since the US DOJ dropped its probe: securing publisher deals and US licenses, insider trading concerns, and bet resolution disputes (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2

Seoul plans to integrate AI chatbot Maeumi into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support before a human counselor connects (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-2-2 AI chatbot

Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-2 Alibaba AI Tencent

Linux Kernel Developer Chris Mason's New Initiative: AI Prompts for Code Reviews (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Linux AI

SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-2 Israel Google AI Drone

Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boosted by AI-linked local companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 China Taiwan AI

Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B+, as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 Asia Singapore

A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far higher resolution than current models (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-2 AI Climate

OpenSourceMalware: 230 malicious OpenClaw extensions, disguised as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27 (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-2-2

Q&A with D‑Wave CEO Alan Baratz on the Quantum Circuits acquisition, error-correcting quantum systems, its Davidson and Anduril defense collaboration, and more (sherwood.news)
2026-2-2 Quantum

AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (www.ft.com)
2026-2-2 AI

Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K? (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2

French IT company Capgemini plans to sell its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, whose contract with the US ICE drew scrutiny from French lawmakers (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-2 France

Anthropic researchers detail “disempowerment patterns” in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (arstechnica.com)
2026-2-2 AI

EU Deploys New Government Satcom Program in Sovereignty Push (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2

Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 AI Apple

TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues and glitches that have impacted core features, such as video likes and view counts, over the past week (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-2-2

What Go Programmers Think of AI (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Programmer AI

Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Pentagon

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