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Infotainment, EV Charger Exploits Earn $1M at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026

Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative sponsored its third annual Pwn2Own Automotive competition in Tokyo this week, receiving 73 entries, the most ever for a Pwn2Own event. /'Under Pwn2Own rules, all dis...

CISA won't attend infosec industry's biggest conference this year

Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Silicon Valley Spy Allegations

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Deel over allegations that it recruited a spy inside rival Rippling, according to documents seen by The Wall Street Journal. Fro...

EquipmentShare, which runs a jobsite tech and equipment rental platform for the construction industry, raised $747.3M in its IPO, valuing the company at $7.16B (Reuters)

Reuters: EquipmentShare, which runs a jobsite tech and equipment rental platform for the construction industry, raised $747.3M in its IPO, valuing the company at $7.16B — EquipmentShare.com shares r...

Microsoft 365 Endured 9+ Hours of Outages Thursday

Early Friday /'there were nearly 113 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft 365 as of 1:05 a.m. ET,/' reports Reuters. But that's down /'from over 15,890 reports at its peak a day earlier, a...

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 — What to know: … Nifty Gatewa...

SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia (Matt Phillips/Sherwood News)

Matt Phillips / Sherwood News: SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia — Soaring ch...

Epic and Google Have a Secret $800 Million Unreal Engine and Services Deal

A federal judge revealed a previously undisclosed ~$800 million, six-year partnership between Epic Games and Google tied to Unreal Engine services and joint marketing. It raises questions about whethe...

EU Parliament Calls For Detachment From US Tech Giants

The European Parliament is calling on the European Commission to reduce dependence on U.S. tech giants by prioritizing EU-based cloud, AI, and open-source infrastructure. The report frames /'European T...

Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client

Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons

Intel Struggles To Meet AI Data Center Demand

Intel says it struggled to satisfy demand for its AI data-center CPUs while new PC chips squeeze margins. CEO Lip-Bu Tan framed the turnaround as supply-constrained, not demand-constrained, with manuf...

Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations

Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (New York Times)

New York Times: Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion — The agency says that victims...

Is China quietly winning the AI race?

The BBC's Lily Jamali looks into why big US firms and start-ups alike are turning to Chinese tech.

Ofcom probes Meta over WhatsApp info it was legally required to provide

Patch or die: VMware vCenter Server bug fixed in 2024 under attack today

ShinyHunters claims Okta customer breaches, leaks data belonging to 3 orgs

Solos Technology sues Meta and EssilorLuxottica, alleging they willfully violated several patents that cover /'core technologies in the field of smart eyewear/' (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Solos Technology sues Meta and EssilorLuxottica, alleging they willfully violated several patents that cover “core technologies in the field of smart eyewear” — Meta Platfor...

Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal (The Information)

The Information: Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal — Brex's $5.15 billi...

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Reece Rogers / Wired: TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking — According to...

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

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AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch

Bezos' Blue Origin announces satellite rival to Musk's Starlink

Blue Origin will be focused on businesses and governments, while Starlink also offers services to individual customers.

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots

Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, have taken legal action against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive...

Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director — TikTok said...

BitGo closed up ~2.7% at $18.49 per share in its NYSE debut on Thursday which saw shares jump as much as 36% intraday, after raising $212.8M in its IPO (Kyle Baird/The Block)

Kyle Baird / The Block: BitGo closed up ~2.7% at $18.49 per share in its NYSE debut on Thursday which saw shares jump as much as 36% intraday, after raising $212.8M in its IPO — Partner offers — Q...

ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga (New York Times)

New York Times: ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga — TikTok said on Thursday th...

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

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Crims hit the easy button for Scattered-Spider style helpdesk scams

TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% (Financial Times)

Financial Times: TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% — Video app launches...

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

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Unrolling the Codex agent loop

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Google says Gemini won’t have ads, as ChatGPT prepares to add them

OpenAI recently rolled out ads to ChatGPT in the United States if you use $8 Go subscription or a free account, but Google says it does not plan to put ads in Gemini. [...]

OpenAI and ServiceNow Strike Deal to Put AI Agents in Business Software

According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI and ServiceNow signed a three-year deal to embed AI agents directly into ServiceNow's enterprise workflows. CNBC reports: As part of the deal, ServiceNow w...

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is testing actions feature

Chromium-based ChatGPT Atlas browser is testing a new feature likely called /'Actions,/' and it can also understand videos, which is why you might see ChatGPT generating timestamps for videos. [...]

OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B — BitGo Holdings Inc. and some of its backer...

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)

Myles Miller / Bloomberg: Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation — Applecart, a mar...

Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase

Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-act...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy goes wobbly on AI bubble possibility

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea

Cloudflare whacks WAF bypass bug that opened side door for attackers

G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub — G42, the United Arab Emira...

OpenAI rolls out age prediction model on ChatGPT to detect your age

OpenAI is rolling out an age prediction model on ChatGPT to detect your age and apply possible safety-related restrictions to prevent misuse by teens. [...]

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October — Applied Compute, a...

The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei — The EU plan...

Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash

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Anthropic details the /'Assistant Axis/', a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior — Read the full paper — When you talk to...

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files — S...

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

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Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more — We're back to start the y...

The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's /'wait-and-see approach/' to AI risks in the financial sector poses /'serious harm/' to the UK (Kalyeena Makortoff/The Guardian)

Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian: The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK — Go...

How Much Do AI Models Resemble a Brain?

At the AI safety site Foom, science journalist Mordechai Rorvig explores a paper presented at November's Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference: [R]esearchers at the Swiss Federa...

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.2 “Codex-Max” for some users

OpenAI is testing the new GPT-5.2-Codex-Max model, enhancing its capabilities for long tasks and context management. This update promises improved reliability in tool usage and better understanding of visual inputs, indicating a significant evolution in AI-assisted coding.

Provably unmasking malicious behavior through execution traces

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nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

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BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

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South Korea Launches Landmark Laws To Regulate AI

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Korea Herald: South Korea will begin enforcing its Artificial Intelligence Act on Thursday, becoming the first country to formally establish safety require...

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: When TikTok users in the U.S. opened the app today, they were greeted with a pop-up asking them to agree to the social media platform's new terms of ser...

cURL Removes Bug Bounties

Ancient Slashdot reader jantangring shares a report from Swedish electronics industry news site Elektroniktidningen (translated to English), writing: /'Open source code library cURL is removing the pos...

FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You

alternative_right quotes a report from The Intercept: Federal prosecutors on January 9 charged Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, an IT specialist for an unnamed government contractor, with /'the offense of u...