Tech

OpenAI for Science launches Prism, a free LaTeX-based text editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-28

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (www.scmp.com)
2026-1-28 Alibaba

Microsoft Was Routing Example-Domain Traffic To a Japanese Cable Company for Five Years (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Japan Microsoft

Doomsday Clock Ticks To 85 Seconds Before Midnight, Its Closest Ever (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 YouTube California

Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions “seamlessly” via AI Mode (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-28 Google AI

France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government (www.euronews.com)
2026-1-28 France Microsoft

Google expands Android's anti-theft suite, including a dedicated toggle for its Failed Authentication Lock feature on devices running Android 16 or later (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Android Google

Critical sandbox escape flaw discovered in popular vm2 NodeJS library (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Nike investigates data breach after extortion gang leaks files (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

The UK government says it recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defense, backed by Meta's funding (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Clawdbot creator Peter Steinberger says he is changing the name of the viral AI agent to Moltbot after he “was forced to rename the account by Anthropic” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Amazon To Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Amazon

US charges 31 more suspects linked to ATM malware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 AI Asset

Ai2 launches Open Coding Agents, starting with SERA, an open-source family that includes 32B and 8B parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases (siliconangle.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Sonos announces the Amp Multi, a large digital amplifier and its first new device in over a year, ending a pause in hardware releases as it focused on software (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28

OpenAI's Science Chief Says LLMs Aren't Ready For Novel Discoveries and That's Fine (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

Summize, which uses AI to let in-house legal teams manage contract workflows within apps like Slack, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $65M (www.axios.com)
2026-1-28 AI Slack

Crypto payments network Mesh raised a $75M Series C led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-28

Pinterest Cuts Up To 15% Jobs To Redirect Resources To AI (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 AI

WhatsApp launches Strict Account Settings, a high-security mode to protect high-risk users like journalists and public figures from sophisticated cyberattacks (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 WhatsApp

Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (www.axios.com)
2026-1-28 Microsoft Mobile AI Yahoo

Israeli startup Memcyco, which offers real-time phishing and account takeover protection, raised a $37M Series A led by NAventures and others (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-1-28 Israel Startup

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (www.geekwire.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon Retail

UPS plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding down its partnership with Amazon; it expects $3B in savings related to the Amazon unwind (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Pornhub parent Aylo says it will restrict UK users from February 2, after six months of complying with the UK's OSA; users who verified their ages can login (www.404media.co)
2026-1-28

Level up your skills with this $49.99 CompTIA training bundle deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Over 6,000 SmarterMail servers exposed to automated hijacking attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

From Cipher to Fear: The psychology behind modern ransomware extortion (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

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