Tech

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

Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M to users in a US class action lawsuit over allegedly incorrectly denied refunds since September 2017 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into “sovereign” AI (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Samsung

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (betakit.com)
2026-1-28 AI Manufacturing

How Anthropic Built Claude: Buy Books, Slice Spines, Scan Pages, Recycle the Remains (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

Samsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold costs $2,899, or $899 more than the Galaxy Z Fold 7, launching in the US on January 30 exclusively via its website and stores (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28 Samsung

Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 Trump Slack

Microsoft Is Refreshing the Xbox Cloud Gaming Web Experience (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Microsoft Xbox

10 Modern Delicacies That Started as Poverty Rations (listverse.com)
2026-1-28

Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is “reallocating resources” to AI teams (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Uber launches Uber AV Labs, a division to collect real-world driving data via sensor-equipped vehicles to train reinforcement learning models for its partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Uber Sensor

Chinese-language crypto laundering networks processed ~$16.1B in 2025, or $44M per day on average across 1,799+ wallets, representing 20% of laundering activity (www.chainalysis.com)
2026-1-28 China

Corning says Meta committed to paying up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, and it plans to expand its Hickory, NC, factory (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Have I Been Pwned: SoundCloud data breach impacts 29.8 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-27

A profile of White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan, who wrote an EO against “Woke” AI, aims to “fight China”, and rallies executives around Trump's policies (www.ft.com)
2026-1-27 Trump China AI

Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage (www.wired.com)
2026-1-27

Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-27 AI

The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-27 Android Google AI

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-27 Google

Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with “pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens” and “can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents” (www.kimi.com)
2026-1-27

Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, saying K2.5 can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-27 China Startup

ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27

Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 WhatsApp

An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-27 Interview

10 Shared TV Universes You've Likely Forgotten About (listverse.com)
2026-1-27

TikTok US says it doesn't “have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages” and is “investigating why some users are experiencing issues” (www.npr.org)
2026-1-27

Micron plans to invest $24B over the next decade to build a 700,000 square foot memory chip facility in Singapore, with wafer output starting in H2 2028 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-27 Singapore

China Hacked Downing Street Phones For Years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 China

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