Tech

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

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will launch a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring content critical of President Donald Trump (www.politico.com)
2026-1-27 Trump California

Reddit Lawyers Force Founder to Redact 'WallStreetBets' From Miami Event (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Reddit

Apple Launches AirTag 2 With Improved Range, Louder Speaker (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Apple

YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list of approved jurisdictions for incorporation, leaving the US, Cayman Islands, and Singapore as options (thelogic.co)
2026-1-27 Singapore Canada

The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-27 Salesforce Slack

TikTok Alternative 'Skylight' Soars To 380K+ Users After TikTok US Deal Finalized (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27

Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Claims Performance Edge Over Amazon and Google (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-27 Apple chatbot

Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a “felony” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27

New malware service guarantees phishing extensions on Chrome web store (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-27 Chrome

California Tech CEO and EV Pioneer Arrested, Accused of Murder (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 California

Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27

Gemini In Google Calendar Now Helps You Find the Best Meeting Time For All Attendees (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Google

StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B+ (www.dealstreetasia.com)
2026-1-27 China Startup AI OPPO

Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after ICE killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice (spyglass.org)
2026-1-27 Tim Cook

Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It Recorded Private Conversations (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-27 Google

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