• “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
• US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"
• Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
• RFK Jr. proposes FDA look the other way on unproven peptides, report says
• Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
• Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
• Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
• Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
• The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
• Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
• Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
• Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
• KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
• Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
• Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
• Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
• Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
• What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
• Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time
• Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
| • CEO Amjad Masad says Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost and saying "ChatGPT is better now"; source: the partnership is still in place (TechCrunch)
• Sources: Apple has hired Scott Tucker, Meta VP and deputy general counsel, as its new litigation chief, as part of a shakeup in its legal team (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• Apple says demand for iPhone Duo has been "nothing short of extraordinary"; deliveries slipped to late January within hours of preorders opening (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
• Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
• Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm (Anthropic)
• Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots (Bloomberg)
• Sources: Elon Musk approached Trump with the idea of slowing down Starshield in Ukraine; source: Trump agreed, paving the way for DOD to execute the slowdown (Joe Barnes/Telegraph)
• The PostgreSQL Global Development Group delays the general availability of PostgreSQL 19 after LLM-assisted code reviews uncovered architectural defects (Lindsay Clark/The Register)
• Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak (Dylan Sloan/Bloomberg)
• Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)
• In its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI risks and develop protocols for labs to provide early warnings (John Harney/Bloomberg)
• Source: Intuit acquired UK-based B2B revenue management and billing startup Sequence in a sale worth ~$200M; Sequence raised $19M led by a16z in 2022 (Jess Jones/The Times)
• Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: powerful, useful Magnetic Connect port, bright screen, but heavy, loud, and Windows doesn't take advantage of RTX Spark (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)
• Sources: PayPal, Epic, and others voiced concerns to DOJ as it signaled a preference to settle its Apple antitrust suit with a deal focusing on interoperability (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
• Organizers abruptly cancel 2026's Grace Hopper Celebration, one of the biggest events for women in tech, after sponsorships and registrations fall short (Bloomberg)
| • A 'flying' Tesla Roadster sounds impossible, until you see what Lockheed Martin built decades ago
• Analogue returns to the 16-bit era with the Mega Sg+ and Super Nt+
• If memory shortages last, tech companies should offer cheap battery replacements
• MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood
• Technics EAH-A1000 review: Superior sound and excellent ANC in a premium package
• An OpenAI research agent 'stole' test Ethereum to finish a coding task
• Steam Achievement Sets will stop DLCs from ruining your 100 percent record
• ChatGPT can now look at your Chrome tabs to do tasks for you
• Apple's $2,000 iPhone Duo goes on pre-order today at 8AM ET
• Gmail's Live AI search feature arrives for Google AI subscribers
• Relive Tesla's ridiculous(ly fun) Roadster stunt show
• Tesla's redesigned Roadster has a cold-gas thruster option, but you'll need $250,000 just to reserve it
• Withings wants new users to pay $100 a year to sync with Apple Health
• The UK may expand the BBC license fee, charging residents to watch streaming services
• NY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership
• FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic following safety failures
• E Ink's new Kaleido 4 could inch us closer to the perfect color e-reader
• Riot will sunset League of Legends Classic in January 2027
• Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: Amazon's premium tablet gets almost everything right
• Trump ballroom's biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies
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