Tech

Nearly 800,000 Telnet servers exposed to remote attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-27

6 Okta security settings you might have overlooked (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-27

The EU Commission says WhatsApp's Channels fall under the DSA's Very Large Online Platform rules, joining Instagram and Facebook, requiring it to address risks (www.euractiv.com)
2026-1-27 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

AI is Hitting UK Harder Than Other Big Economies, Study Finds (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 AI

Nvidia announces its Earth-2 Medium Range weather model, built on its Atlas architecture, claiming it outperforms Google DeepMind's GenCast in 70+ variables (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27 Google Nvidia

Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-27

Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU review: the 18A-based Core Ultra X9 388H outperforms Apple's M5 and AMD's top-tier Strix Halo in some tests like 4K video exports (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-27 Intel Apple AMD

As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out (www.axios.com)
2026-1-27 Google Amazon

Apple unveils a second-gen AirTag with an updated speaker and the same second-gen Ultra Wideband chip as in the iPhone 17, costing $29 for one and $99 for four (9to5mac.com)
2026-1-27 iPhone Apple

Angry Gamers Are Forcing Studios To Scrap or Rethink New Releases (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27

Nvidia invests an additional $2B in CoreWeave to help speed up adding 5GW+ of AI computing capacity by 2030 and deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPU; CRWV jumps 9%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-27 AI Nvidia

How the explicit deepfake ecosystem evolved from images to high-quality video; an analysis shows 1.4M+ Telegram accounts signed up to 39 deepfake creation bots (www.wired.com)
2026-1-27

Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27

TSMC's conservative capex approach is resulting in supply-demand imbalances and foregone revenue, and hyperscalers must build up Samsung or Intel as its rivals (stratechery.com)
2026-1-27 Intel Samsung

Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-26 AI chatbot

Sources: NY-based Tandem, which uses AI to automate the paperwork for writing and receiving medical prescriptions, raised a $100M Series B at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-26 AI

OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing “advanced topics in hard science” in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics (www.axios.com)
2026-1-26

Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-26 Google

Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-26 China AI Robot Drone

Morgan Stanley: UK companies reported that AI led to 8% net job losses over the past 12 months, above Japan's 7%, Germany's 4%, Australia's 2%; the US added 2% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-26 Germany Australia Japan AI Morgan Stanley

Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24+ US projects were blocked in January alone (www.ft.com)
2026-1-26

Chinese autonomous trucking company DeepWay raised ~$173M ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, filed in November 2025; DeepWay reported ~$215M in H1 2025 revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-26 China Hong Kong IPO

The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue (www.ft.com)
2026-1-26

Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great (jasmi.news)
2026-1-26

Quantum computing company IonQ acquires US chipmaker SkyWater for ~$1.8B, paying $35/share, in IonQ's biggest deal yet; SkyWater will operate as a subsidiary (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-26 Quantum

Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-26

Is Google Prioritizing YouTube and X Over News Publishers on Discover? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-26 Google YouTube

London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025 (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-1-26 Startup AI London

Manufacturers say that AI is fundamentally changing how some new products are created, finding unexpected solutions and reducing R&D time from weeks to days (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-26 AI

Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after “several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs” (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-26 Layoffs Decentralize

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