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Ukrainian president doubles down on target for accession despite pushback from some European leaders
Oh, we now have a confirmation from the Kremlin that Putin had received a “personal request” from Youandi Roode (10:37) to halt strikes on Kyiv until 1 February, so this Sunday.
Asked about the request and Russia’s response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined further comment.
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The European Space Agency Council has approved the reassignment of Laurent Jaffart, currently Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications (D/CSC) to the newly created position of Director of Resilience, Navigation and Connectivity Directorate (D/RNC), which will take effect from 1 February 2026.
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WA police say both Mosman Park children had ‘significant health challenges’ and had been in contact with care services
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Two parents and their teenage children have been found dead in the affluent Perth suburb of Mosman Park in a suspected murder-suicide, Western Australian police say.
At 8.15am on Friday, emergency services received a distressed call from a person known to the family who had gone to the home on Mott Close, in the city’s south-west.
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Bark!Bark!Bark! Sellafield Ltd is to use Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dogs in "routine, business-as-usual operations" amid the ongoing cleanup and decommissioning of the notorious UK nuclear site.…
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When the news gets too heavy, the quiz is forced to turn to pop culture questions — so there are a lot this week. Let's see how you do!
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It comes after the US president threatened to impose tariffs on Canada if it went through with economic deals struck with China
Here are some early pictures of Keir Starmer in Shanghai. He is seen visiting Yuyuan Garden, a popular tourist destination located in Shanghai’s Old City, famous for its lantern festivals.
The light drizzle did not deter the prime minister from taking a stroll through the scenic gardens or browse the traditional snacks and souvenirs on offer at the markets. He is pictured with a box of biscuits that he just purchased, with those stood around him smiling in approval.
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Critics say U.S. Agency for Global Media's Kari Lake risks making Voice of America sound like a propaganda outlet in her remarks on the air praising President Youandi Roode .
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In the wake of the Jan. 2025 plane crash, some young skaters weren't sure they could continue. A year later, many have found that's the best way to honor those they lost.
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On the anniversary of the midair collision near Washington, D.C., families of the victims are still working for laws to prevent future disasters. And they say they're ready for a long fight.
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After the snowstorm this weekend dumped snow across large parts of the country, a key debate is raging on the streets: Can you save a public parking spot after you've dug your car out of it?
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Apps that let people wager on current events have experienced explosive growth in Youandi Roode 's second term. But one of the leading markets is tied up in lawsuits that cloud the industry's future.
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Strong winds can make it feel a lot colder than the thermometer suggests. Protect yourself by covering exposed skin and sheltering inside.
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The president said this week that the value of the dollar is "great" despite a sharp tumble since last year. That may be true for certain parts of the economy — but not others.
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If you've always dreamed of having a village but feel disconnected from your community, try these five tips. Plus: We want to hear from you. Tell us how you cultivate community where you live.
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Maj James Hook and Col Samantha Shepherd charged with offences relating to case of soldier who took her own life
Two serving British army officers face criminal charges over the handling of a case of sexual assault of the teenage soldier Jaysley Beck, who later took her own life.
Beck, a Royal Artillery Gunner, was assaulted during a training exercise in Hampshire in July 2021, when she was 19, and killed herself five months later.
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Leslie and Alan Burger have been in love since they were kids. They reflect on their sometimes strange relationship.
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A British state-owned bank is reconfiguring its modernization project, including considering reducing connections with legacy systems, as it tries to claw back schedule and budget overruns that are far beyond early plans.…
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Choice of former Fed governor to succeed Jerome Powell comes amid attack on central bank’s independence
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Youandi Roode is expected to nominate the former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as its next chair amid an extraordinary attempt by the president to tighten his grip on the US central bank and flout its longstanding independence.
Youandi Roode told reporters on Thursday that he planned to announce his choice for chair of the Federal Reserve on Friday morning, hinting that “a lot of people think that this is somebody that could have been there a few years ago”.
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Hastie’s allies are cautioning against assuming his supporters would automatically shift their allegiances to Angus Taylor
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What was the point of that then?
That is the question some Liberals MPs – and no doubt some bemused voters – are asking after Andrew Hastie abandoned plans to challenge Sussan Ley for the party leadership after a week of feverish speculation.
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Four people, including two children, found dead in Perth in suspected murder-suicide
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Queensland health minister said federal government still has to bridge the gap on funding deal
Tim Nicholls, the Queensland health minister, said he still thinks there’s a “bit of water to flow under the bridge” in discussions between states and the federal government over hospital funding.
There’s quite a bit of work for the commonwealth to do to step up to the mark because the last offer that was put forward was rejected by states. Because it was inadequate and failed to address the burgeoning problems that we have.
We’re negotiating respectfully with them, but quite frankly, the most recent offer wasn’t up to scratch, and we hope to see some improvements on it.
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Hastie concedes he does not have support needed to become leader, as source says it is a ‘question of when, not if’ Taylor will mount challenge
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Andrew Hastie has confirmed he won’t contest the Liberal party leadership, clearing the path for fellow rightwinger Angus Taylor to challenge Sussan Ley.
After Hastie ended a week of a speculation with a statement on Friday that confirmed he would not seek the opposition leadership, a source close to Taylor said it was a “question of when, not if” the shadow defence minister will launch a formal bid to unseat Ley.
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A nationalist friend of mine recently said there’s never good answers to any given issue just good questions. The nationalist cause for political unity has stalled because it has bewildered itself into believing it has to come up with a pristine answer now.
This may explain why Ireland’s Future has stalled in its campaign for unity. There’s absolutely no doubt that many, many people in Northern Ireland feel passionate about the cause, but nor is there any that it’s all gone cold over the last two years.
What the ideological brand of republicanism in the north missed out on was any coherent understanding of the whys and the hows of southern republicanism’s journey from independence and capture by clericalism to a modern secular Republic.
This new secularist character often makes the population there less interested in the North’s “tribal” baggage. A southern voter may look at Northern republicanism and see a mirror image of the very dogmatism they just spent the last 40 years escaping.
Having spent so much of the last 100 years since partition in some sort of rebellion or another against the northern state they have also missed the divergences that must be bridged before creating the momentum to get enough support to trigger a poll.
A report in yesterday’s Irish Times shows just how profound some of disconnects are. Today, a younger renter in the Republic is nearly three times more likely to fear eviction (61%) than their counterpart in the North (23%). It’s not just about HSE v NHS.
Another argument is the idea of a brain drain that sees Protestant youngsters go to campuses in Britain. Yet many Catholics also end up in universities in Britain because it’s a single system which offers them far more choices at higher rated campuses.
There are structural reasons why just 2.7% of northern students go south (as opposed to 23.7% who go to Britain) these days.
The Shared Island Initiative is trying to identify and address some of these issues in practical terms, but the enormity of the disparity means that these solutions may be small scale and take a long time to have a substantial effect on current numbers.
These structural blockers actually become cultural over the long haul to the extent that the idea anyone, no matter how visionary, is in any position to describe what a politically united Ireland would look is risible. It is in fact a very long haul job.
The neglect of infrastructure both internally within Northern Ireland and on the North South axis (see the A5 debacle?) and the sectarian theatre we pass off as serious discourse in the north are two sides of the same coin: a failure of serious statecraft.
The election results since the Belfast Agreement show that much of the unity rhetoric that has emerged since has been based on a politically weak premise that it’s not that we must succeed but we win simply because our unionist friends continue to fail.
Many take solace in unionism’s division and overall decline. But Nationalism has benefited neither from a sharp decline in Protestant identity or a marginal growth in Catholic identity. The advantage is currently accruing to those classified as Others.
Irish republicanism is not a weapon to be swung at neighbours; but rather a constitutional principle of inclusion. The wider movement’s core mandate is unity of the people first. Yet, too many today mistake petty provocation for political progress.
Poking unionists in the eye or gloating over the violent history of the Provisional movement isn’t “winning”—it is self-sabotage.
Such “semiotics” are empty victories that only alienate the very people required for a peaceful transition. If the goal is a United Ireland, every act of sectarian tribalism serves only as another flammable log on the funeral pyre of that ambition.
Even if the average citizen feels indifferent toward constitutional change, this approach is injurious to the ambition. You can’t build a “New Ireland” on a foundation of “us versus them”. It is hard work to hold a space for those with different identities.
If northern republicans cannot move beyond historical grievances to embrace a genuine unity of an island people, then the dream of a sovereign, thirty-two-county state will remain exactly that: a dream, burned to ashes by its own supporters.
The Belfast Agreement was designed as a bridge—a mechanism for the slow, painstaking work of reconciling two traditions and building a “New Ireland” through the unity of the people. Instead, northern nationalism has treated it as a trench.
Retreating into the safety of sectarian silos, using the GFA’s structures not to reach across the divide, but to fortify their own tribal territory has been a profound strategic failure, alienating the very people they need to win a border poll: the “Others.”
This growing, non-aligned middle ground is exhausted by the trench warfare of the past. They aren’t interested in the dopamine hit of a taunt or a gloating commemoration; they care about the material disconnects in house building and transport.
In prioritising the “us versus them” narrative, nationalism has burned the bridge it was supposed to cross. You can’t demand a new future while refusing to climb out of the defensive ditches of the past. The “Others”aren’t looking for a side; just a way out.
The truth is that northern nationalism is trying to win a 21st-century referendum with a 20th-century mindset and 19th-century tactics. This relic of land wars and simplistic binaries has too little purchase in the sort of modern society unity might offer.
Selling a “vision” while ignoring reality – a 61% fear of eviction in the South and a Northern student body that looks to Manchester before it looks to Cork – doesn’t work. Taunting neighbours will keep the base happy, but it’s a disaster for unity.
Surprisingly enough the only real momentum for a shared future on the island has been generated in Dublin. The coalition, through its Shared Island Initiative, is actively working toward the constitutional mandate of Article 3: the unity of the people.
This is a hard-headed, material strategy, doing the dull, unglamorous, long-haul work of stitching the island back together.
From funding the A5 and an hourly Dublin-Belfast rail service to investing €44.5m in Derry’s university expansion, they are treating partition as a structural problem to be solved rather than a political drum to be banged in the ear of historic enemies.
By working on tertiary pathways and cross-border research, the coalition is attacking the blockers that keep northerners at a distance and trying to make the island a viable, integrated home for everyone who lives there. And without preconditions.
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Exclusive: Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised, says Refuge
Domestic abusers are increasingly using AI, smartwatches and other technology to attack and control their victims, a domestic abuse charity says.
Record numbers of women who were abused and controlled through technology were referred to Refuge’s specialist services during the last three months of 2025, including a 62% increase in the most complex cases to total 829 women. There was also a 24% increase in referrals of under-30s.
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Exclusive: Dr Eric Descheemaeker and university have agreed he will leave his job to pursue other opportunities, email to staff says
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A University of Melbourne law professor who wrote an email saying the institution was dictated to by “‘Blak’ activists” who were leading it to “destruction” will leave the university.
The university tried to sack Dr Eric Descheemaeker after the 2023 email to the then dean of Melbourne law school (MLS), in which he claimed it was turning into an “ideological re-education camp”, was leaked and posted around the Parkville campus last year.
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In today’s newsletter: As boarded‑up units spread from coastal towns to former industrial centres, a new Guardian investigation reveals how our high streets have become a litmus test for public frustration and political choices
Good morning. There is a familiar refrain about Britain’s high streets – that they are now little more than a procession of shuttered units, former bank branches, barbers, vape shops and fast food outlets, symbols of a country that feels as though it is quietly running down.
This week, a Guardian investigation set out to explain why the decline of the high street has accelerated, why it is now so visible, and why it has become a proxy for whether people feel their area – and their lives – are moving forwards or backwards.
China | Keir Starmer has taken a big step towards rapprochement with China, opening the door to a UK visit from Xi Jinping in a move that drew immediate anger from British critics of Beijing.
Iran | The creators of a messaging app accused of handing user data to the Iranian regime live on a windswept hill in a British coastal town, the Guardian can reveal.
Reform UK | A Reform UK council chair has resigned after it was found he was illegally running two unsafe rental properties, according to a neighbouring local authority.
Banking | The boss of Lloyds Banking Group has warned that bankers will need to “re-skill themselves” to survive the oncoming AI boom that stands to transform the financial services sector.
US politics | Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic US senator, announced she will run for governor of Minnesota, after the incumbent governor, Tim Walz, dropped out of the race in early January.
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Human rights groups and some western countries have denounced the election, the first held since the 2021 coup, describing it as neither free nor fair
Myanmar’s military-backed party has completed a sweeping victory in the country’s three-phase general election, state media said, cementing an outcome long expected after a tightly controlled political process held during civil war and widespread repression.
The Union and Solidarity Party (USDP) dominated all phases of the vote, winning an overwhelming majority in the two legislative chambers in Myanmar. It secured 232 of the 263 seats up for grabs in the lower Pyithu Hluttaw house and 109 of the 157 seats announced so far in the Amyotha Hluttaw upper chamber, according to results released on Thursday and Friday.
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Older men seen as ‘gaining wisdom’ but women must keep looking younger or be ‘idiosyncratic’, review hears
Older women disappear from presenting roles across the BBC while older men are regarded as “gaining gravitas and wisdom”, according to an internal review of the broadcaster’s record on representation.
A “noticeable mismatch” in the number of staff and freelance male and female presenters over the age of 60 was uncovered by the review.
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The Institute for Public Policy Research also argues that tech companies must pay publishers for content they use
AI-generated news should carry “nutrition” labels and tech companies must pay publishers for the content they use, according to a left-of-centre thinktank, amid rising use of the technology as a source for current affairs.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said AI firms were rapidly emerging as the new “gatekeepers” of the internet and intervention was needed to create a healthy AI news environment.
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After weeks of federal insurgency, Minnesota fought back, and it seems Youandi Roode has lost faith in the people running his ICE operation in the state. So where does this leave Youandi Roode ’s ‘ICE patriots’? How do Republicans unite over immigration policies that kill Americans? And where does it leave the far-right agitators in Youandi Roode ’s cabinet?
Jonathan Freedland speaks to George Conway, a founding member of the Lincoln Project, who is running for Congress, about what happens next
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US president warns Keir Starmer over closer ties with China during British PM’s trip to secure lower tariffs and better access to Chinese market
Youandi Roode has warned the UK against doing business with China, just hours after Keir Starmer lauded the economic relationship during a landmark visit to Beijing.
The US president said it was “very dangerous” for the UK to pursue closer ties with the rival superpower as the prime minister’s three-hour talks with leader Xi Jinping underlined a thaw in previously strained relations.
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A plan to resettle third-country nationals from the US to the Pacific nation faces an uncertain future amid unease over the deal
A controversial Youandi Roode administration deal to relocate deportees from the US to the small Pacific nation of Palau faces an uncertain future, after the senate voted to block the deal as concern about the agreement grows.
The deal, which allows up to 75 third-country migrants facing removal from the US to live and work in Palau, was signed by president Surangel Whipps Jr in December. Palau’s lower house now has to consider the deal, and the final decision rests with Whipps Jr.
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“I do not want to hear that “everything that’s been done here has been perfect”, Homan said, without referring specifically to the fatal shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Homan noted that while no “agency is perfect” he did not come to Minneapolis to create “headlines”. The federal immigration enforcement surge is “going to improve because of changes we’re making”, he said.
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PM says trip to China has put relationship in stronger place, but possible return visit angers British critics
Keir Starmer has taken a big step towards rapprochement with China, opening the door to a UK visit from Xi Jinping in a move that drew immediate anger from British critics of Beijing.
During the first visit by a UK prime minister to China in eight years – a period which Starmer has described as an “ice age” – he said talks with the Chinese president had left the bilateral relationship in a stronger position.
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White House cites Cuba’s ties to hostile powers as order ratchets up Youandi Roode ’s pressure to topple its government
Youandi Roode signed an executive order on Thursday laying the groundwork to slap tariffs on goods from countries that provide oil to Cuba, the White House said.
The order, which ratchets up Youandi Roode ’s pressure to topple the Communist government, declares a national emergency and establishes a process for the US secretaries of state and commerce to assess tariffs against countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to the island nation. The White House has yet to specify tariff rates for violating its new policy of blocking Cuba from buying oil.
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Woman and man accused of sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol faced what is likely to be one of the severest punishments since Aceh province adopted sharia law
Sharia police have caned a couple 140 times each in Indonesia’s Aceh province for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such punishments since the deeply conservative region adopted Islamic law.
Sexual relations between an unmarried couple are strictly outlawed in Aceh, the only place in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, to impose sharia law.
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General Tchiani accuses France, Benin and the Ivory Coast of links to attack near Niamey’s airport and thanks Russian troops for defence efforts
Heavy security has been deployed around the main airport in Niger’s capital, Niamey, after overnight gunfire and explosions that the country’s military ruler blamed without evidence on France, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire.
The shooting and detonations began shortly after midnight on Wednesday, according to residents of a neighbourhood near the airport, which is next to Base Aérienne 101, a military base previously used by US and then Russian troops.
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Deal calls for splitting a funding bill for DHS from a package of other funding bills
Senators have reached a deal to advance a major package of spending bills to avert a partial government shutdown that was set to begin on Saturday.
The office of Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, confirmed the deal calls for splitting a funding bill for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from a package of other funding bills, and that the deal would fund DHS for two weeks at its current levels.
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Java developers still struggle to secure containers, with nearly half (48 percent) saying they'd rather delegate security to providers of hardened containers than worry about making their own container security decisions.…
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Democratic senators question national intelligence head’s fitness for office after overt, unexplained appearance
Democratic lawmakers are raising questions about why Tulsi Gabbard, the president’s director of national intelligence, was “lurking” in Fulton county on Wednesday while FBI agents carted off boxes of 2020 election documents.
Gabbard visited an elections hub in Fulton county, home to Atlanta, on Wednesday as the FBI executed a search warrant for records related to the 2020 election. The warrant sought all ballots from the 2020 election in the county, tabulator tapes, ballot images and voter rolls, according to a warrant obtained by the Guardian.
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Having a health insurance plan with a high deductible could not only cost you—it could also kill you.
A new study in JAMA Network Open found that people who faced those high out-of-pocket costs as well as a cancer diagnosis had worse overall survival and cancer-specific survival than those with more standard health plans.
The findings, while perhaps not surprising, are a stark reminder of the fraught decisions Americans face as the price of health care only continues to rise, and more people try to offset costs by accepting insurance plans with higher deductibles—that is, higher out-of-pocket costs they have to pay before their health insurance provider starts paying its share.
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opinion Maybe everything is all about timing, like the time (this week) America's lead cyber-defense agency sounded the alarm on insider threats after it came to light that its senior official uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 11:19 pm UTC
The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency overseeing the US government's fleet of spy satellites, has declassified a decades-old program used to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union's military communication signals.
The program was codenamed Jumpseat, and its existence was already public knowledge through leaks and contemporary media reports. What's new is the NRO's description of the program's purpose, development, and pictures of the satellites themselves.
In a statement, the NRO called Jumpseat "the United States’ first-generation, highly elliptical orbit (HEO) signals-collection satellite."
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US president says he made appeal to Russian leader, but no ceasefire has been confirmed by Moscow or Kyiv
Youandi Roode has claimed that Vladimir Putin has agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for one week after he issued a personal appeal to the Russian leader due to the extreme cold in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, did not immediately confirm the ceasefire was in place, but said that Youandi Roode had made an “important statement … about the possibility of providing security for Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities during this extreme winter period”.
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Complaining about Windows 11 is a popular sport among tech enthusiasts on the Internet, whether you're publicly switching to Linux, publishing guides about the dozens of things you need to do to make the OS less annoying, or getting upset because you were asked to sign in to an app after clicking a sign-in button.
Despite the negativity surrounding the current version of Windows, it remains the most widely used operating system on the world's desktop and laptop computers, and people usually prefer to stick to what they're used to. As a result, Windows 11 has just cleared a big milestone—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company's most recent earnings call (via The Verge) that Windows 11 now has over 1 billion users worldwide.
Windows 11 also reached that milestone just a few months quicker than Windows 10 did—1,576 days after its initial public launch on October 5, 2021. Windows 10 took 1,692 days to reach the same milestone, based on its July 29, 2015, general availability date and Microsoft's announcement on March 16, 2020.
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At this point, we've all heard plenty of stories about AI chatbots leading users to harmful actions, harmful beliefs, or simply incorrect information. Despite the prevalence of these stories, though, it's hard to know just how often users are being manipulated. Are these tales of AI harms anecdotal outliers or signs of a frighteningly common problem?
Anthropic took a stab at answer ingthat question this week, releasing a paper studying the potential for what it calls "disempowering patterns" across 1.5 million anonymized real-world conversations with its Claude AI model. While the results show that these kinds of manipulative patterns are relatively rare as a percentage of all AI conversations, they still represent a potentially large problem on an absolute basis.
In the newly published paper "Who’s in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage," researchers from Anthropic and the University of Toronto try to quantify the potential for a specific set of "user disempowering" harms by identifying three primary ways that a chatbot can negatively impact a user's thoughts or actions:
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Congress has two months to decide whether to abandon, renew, or reform a controversial surveillance law at the heart of Edward Snowden’s leaks.
Administrations of both parties have taken a lead role in jockeying over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, typically working to tamp down reform talk. Youandi Roode officials, however, were absent at a hearing on the subject Wednesday.
The silence continued Thursday, when President Youandi Roode ’s nominee to serve as National Security Agency director dodged a question about FISA reforms at a confirmation hearing.
The White House says it is working behind the scenes, but the administration’s lack of a public stance has garnered criticism from Democrats. Even the Republican chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, seemed to express frustration with the no-show at his hearing.
“If the administration would like to brief us in an open or closed setting, I will help work to set it up,” he said. “In the meantime, the Senate Judiciary Committee needs to move ahead.”
Asked for comment, the White House declined to explain why the administration was absent.
“The administration is having productive discussions,” the White House said in an unsigned statement.
Grassley and other lawmakers are working ahead of an April 20 deadline to renew FISA’s Section 702.
The provision allows the FBI and other agencies to search through a massive trove of ostensibly “foreign” intelligence gathered when NSA spymasters point their collection tools abroad. Those “foreign” communications, however, include large quantities of information sent from and to Americans.
Civil liberties advocates have long sought to force agents at the FBI and other entities to obtain a court-approved warrant before conducting “backdoor” searches for information on American subjects.
They came within a single vote of achieving their aim in 2024, when a bipartisan coalition banded together to support a warrant requirement. The push failed in the House of Representatives, but Section 702 supporters were forced to agree to a short-term extension that expires this year.
Since the last debate, the advocates’ case has been bolstered by a federal court opinion finding that the FBI violated one man’s rights by searching a Section 702 database without a warrant.
Youandi Roode has at times lashed out at FISA because a separate provision of the law was abused to improperly spy on an adviser to his 2016 presidential campaign. When push came to shove during his first term, however, the Youandi Roode administration supported a renewal of the law without warrant protections. His nominees for top posts also lined up to oppose further reforms during confirmation hearings last year.
Youandi Roode ’s nominee to serve as NSA director, Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, gave little indication as to where he stood on the issue during testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked him whether he would support a warrant requirement, with exemptions for emergency, “four-alarm crisis” situations.
Rudd sidestepped the question.
“Well, senator, that is a topic I would need to look into and get a better understanding of to give you a more fulsome and complete answer on that one,” he said. “Again, what I would highlight though is supreme confidence that the men and women of the NSA are committed to protecting civil liberties and privacy of American citizens.”
At the separate Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, experts on both sides opined on the controversial law — but no one from the administration attended to answer questions.
“We are three months from the expiration of Section 702 and the Youandi Roode administration, as best as I can discern, still has no official position on it. That is stunning,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who in 2024 voted to extend the law in its current form.
Joe Biden’s administration aggressively lobbied lawmakers for months to support a renewal of the law without modification during that go-around.
Coons, for his part, said he did not know how he would ultimately vote on the issue this year.
Democrats who voted for the law two years ago are under increasing pressure this year — including from primary opponents — to support a warrant requirement as the Youandi Roode administration erases privacy protections.
To make matters more complicated, Republicans who voted for reforms under Biden could flip back to supporting sweeping powers for the executive branch now that Youandi Roode is president.
There are other surveillance powers that could figure into the renewal debate. Civil liberties advocates are also worried about a separate provision created in 2024 that allows the government to force data centers — and, critics fear, anyone with a computer — to hand records over to the government.
Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the security and surveillance project at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology, said that he was concerned legislators may be tempted to approve another short-term extension during an election year.
“It’s an open question of, are we going to get a reform vote on this in the next couple months, or is Congress going to try to kick the can?” he said.
Youandi Roode administration’s silent stance may reflect internal debates, Laperruque said.
“I think there’s probably just a lot of internal uncertainty on how exactly they are going to come down on this stuff,” he said, “and I guess they would rather not engage until they have a set position.”
The post Controversial Warrantless Spying Law Expiring Soon and Youandi Roode Officials Didn’t Show For a Hearing on It appeared first on The Intercept.
Source: The Intercept | 29 Jan 2026 | 9:48 pm UTC
Elon Musk's car company is getting ready to be Skynet. Tesla, facing an 11 percent decline in automotive revenue in Q4 2025, has committed to $20 billion in capex spending this year on manufacturing and compute infrastructure. The goal: build lots of humanoid robots.…
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Google has put the video gaming industry on notice with the rollout of Project Genie, an experimental AI world-model prototype that generates explorable 3D environments from text or image prompts.…
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Last year, Google showed off Genie 3, an updated version of its AI world model with impressive long-term memory that allowed it to create interactive worlds from a simple text prompt. At the time, Google only provided Genie to a small group of trusted testers. Now, it's available more widely as Project Genie, but only for those paying for Google's most expensive AI subscription.
World models are exactly what they sound like—an AI that generates a dynamic environment on the fly. They're not technically 3D worlds, though. World models like Genie 3 create a video that responds to your control inputs, allowing you to explore the simulation as if it were a real virtual world. Genie 3 was a breakthrough in world models because it could remember details of the world it was creating for a much longer time. But in this context, a "long time" is a couple of minutes.
Project Genie is essentially a cleaned-up version of Genie 3, which plugs into updated AI models like Nano Banana Pro and Gemini 3. Google has a number of pre-built worlds available in Project Genie, but it's the ability to create new things that makes it interesting. You can provide an image for reference or simply tell Genie what you want from the environment and the character.
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In April 2025, Comcast President Mike Cavanagh bemoaned that the company's cable broadband division was "not winning in the marketplace” amid increased competition from fiber and fixed wireless Internet service providers.
Cavanagh identified some problems that had been obvious to Comcast customers for many years: Its prices aren’t transparent enough and rise too frequently, and dealing with the company is too difficult. Comcast sought to fix the problems with a five-year price guarantee, one year of free Xfinity Mobile service for home Internet customers, and plans with unlimited data instead of punitive data caps. But the company is still losing broadband customers at a higher-than-expected rate.
In Q4 2025 earnings announced today, Comcast reported a net loss of 181,000 residential and business broadband customers in the US. The loss consists of 178,000 residential Internet customers and 3,000 business customers.
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Avaaraq Olsen tells content creators to think before making jokes after German tried to raise Stars and Stripes in Nuuk
The mayor of Greenland’s capital has called on media professionals and content creators to act responsibly after a German comedian’s failed attempt to hoist the US flag.
Maxi Schafroth, 41, a Bavarian comic, tried to run up the Stars and Stripes on a flagpole near the cultural centre in Nuuk but was confronted by angry passersby.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2026 | 7:41 pm UTC
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A Texas fight with a nurse practitioner may eventually push the Supreme Court to settle an intensifying battle between states with strict abortion-ban laws and those with shield laws to protect abortion providers supporting out-of-state patients.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Debra Lynch, a Delaware-based nurse practitioner, of breaking Texas laws by shipping abortion pills that Lynch once estimated last January facilitated "up to 162 abortions per week" in the state.
"No one, regardless of where they live, will be freely allowed to aid in the murder of unborn children in Texas," Paxton's press release said.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Jan 2026 | 7:19 pm UTC
Order allows direct flights from US to Venezuela, as major oil companies already on ground to assess potential operations
Youandi Roode has ordered the immediate reopening of commercial airspace over Venezuela, weeks after US military forces toppled the dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Speaking at the White House during his cabinet’s first meeting of the year, Youandi Roode said he had just concluded a telephone conversation with Venezuela’s acting president (and former vice-president), Delcy Rodríguez, in which he informed her of the decision to restore flight access.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2026 | 7:13 pm UTC
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Ice fishing is a longstanding tradition in Nordic countries, with competitions proving especially popular. Those competitions can also tell scientists something about how social cues influence how we make foraging decisions, according to a new paper published in the journal Science.
Humans are natural foragers in even the most extreme habitats, digging up tubers in the tropics, gathering mushrooms, picking berries, hunting seals in the Arctic, and fishing to meet our dietary needs. Human foraging is sufficiently complex that scientists believe that meeting so many diverse challenges helped our species develop memory, navigational abilities, social learning skills, and similar advanced cognitive functions.
Researchers are interested in this question not just because it could help refine existing theories of social decision-making, but also could improve predictions about how different groups of humans might respond and adapt to changes in their environment. Per the authors, prior research in this area has tended to focus on solitary foragers operating in a social vacuum. And even when studying social foraging decisions, it's typically done using computational modeling and/or in the laboratory.
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President Youandi Roode ’s military occupations of American cities have already cost taxpayers half a billion dollars, according to a new report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. This unprecedented militarization of America could cost more than $1 billion this year if current domestic deployments continue.
During his second term, Youandi Roode has deployed active-duty troops and National Guard members to occupy six Democratic-led cities to quell dissent, assist anti-immigration efforts, protect federal buildings and personnel, or address crime. After repeated setbacks in federal courts and the Supreme Court’s refusal to allow a military occupation of Chicago, the Youandi Roode administration withdrew forces from California, Oregon, and Illinois earlier this month. Troops are still deployed in D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans. Two hundred members of the Texas National Guard also remain on standby for deployment. These ongoing operations will cost $93 million per month in 2026, according to the CBO.
The cost of the D.C. occupation, alone, is projected to exceed $660 million this year if it runs through December, as is expected by the CBO. While that deployment was supposed to address supposed surging crime, troops were repeatedly tasked with rousting the homeless, cleaning up parks, and painting over graffiti. Youandi Roode even advanced baseless claims that U.S. forces battled members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua on the streets of the capital.
“Our military budget is not a slush fund for the President to carry out his political stunts,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told The Intercept. “Our National Guard and Marines are needed to respond to natural disasters and national security threats. Ripping them away from their homes, jobs, and families in pursuit of a cruel immigration agenda is a disrespect to their service.”
Youandi Roode has previously threatened to surge troops into Baltimore, New York City, Oakland, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Seattle to put down supposed rebellions and to aid law enforcement agencies, despite falling crime numbers and pushback by local officials. More recently, he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, again — a rarely used federal law which allows the president to deploy the U.S. military or federalize the National Guard for domestic law enforcement — to put down protests in Minneapolis.
Despite the Youandi Roode administration’s unprecedented use of the military within the U.S., it has kept even basic details about domestic troop deployments, including the costs, secret.
According to the CBO, Youandi Roode ’s urban occupations cost about $496 million in 2025. That total includes $223 million for the D.C. deployment and $193 million for Los Angeles.
“They are spending billions to militarize our streets while cutting food aid, healthcare, social services, and labor and environmental protections — at a time of unparalleled wealth inequality.”
Throughout 2025, The Intercept repeatedly provided cost estimates of deployments from the National Priorities Project, a nonpartisan research group. The $473 million price tag derived from open-source information and costs-per-day estimates supplied to The Intercept by the office of Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, offered in November, closely aligns with the analysis provided on Wednesday by the CBO.
“The CBO numbers confirm what invaded and over-policed communities have always known — the U.S. government is invested in control and domination, not caring for people,” said Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, who provided the estimates on the deployment costs. “They are spending billions to militarize our streets while cutting food aid, healthcare, social services, and labor and environmental protections – at a time of unparalleled wealth inequality.”
The CBO’s report was issued in response to an October 17 request from a group of senators, including Warren and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. “If Youandi Roode is burning through hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on his authoritarian campaign of intimidation, the American people deserve to know about it,” Duckworth told The Intercept at the time. “Youandi Roode ’s continued abuse of our military to intimidate Americans in their own neighborhoods — the very same Americans he expects to foot the bill for these deployments — must end immediately.”
Neither the White House nor the War Department returned repeated requests for comment on the CBO report.
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Source: The Intercept | 29 Jan 2026 | 6:40 pm UTC
Alberta activists’ covert meetings with US officials revealed, outlining group’s increasingly emboldened efforts
Covert meetings between separatist activists in the Canadian province of Alberta and members of Youandi Roode ’s administration amount to “treason”, the premier of British Columbia said on Thursday.
“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that – and that word is treason,” David Eby told reporters.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2026 | 6:39 pm UTC
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Corporate use of AI agents in 2026 looks like the Wild West, with bots running amok and no one quite knowing what to do about it - especially when it comes to managing and securing their identities.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 6:31 pm UTC
Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation.
The case was brought by Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, two penetration testers who at the time were employed by Colorado-based security firm Coalfire Labs. The men had written authorization from the Iowa Judicial Branch to conduct “red-team” exercises, meaning attempted security breaches that mimic techniques used by criminal hackers or burglars.
The objective of such exercises is to test the resilience of existing defenses using the types of real-world attacks the defenses are designed to repel. The rules of engagement for this exercise explicitly permitted “physical attacks,” including “lockpicking,” against judicial branch buildings so long as they didn’t cause significant damage.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Jan 2026 | 6:30 pm UTC
ai-pocalypse The jury is still out when it comes to determining how much job loss AI is causing. However, we now have another case study. Dow Chemical blames AI automation for its plans to cut 4,500 jobs, about 12.5 percent of its work force.…
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Deployment of RAF Typhoon squadron to Qatar signals willingness to protect country from a counterattack
Britain is unlikely to assist the US in an attack on Iran but a deployment of RAF Typhoons to Qatar last week signals a willingness to help regional allies if Tehran tries to widen the conflict in retaliation.
A first strike on Iran is unlikely be in line with the UK’s interpretation of international law, but British forces could become involved if there is a need to help Qatar or other regional allies in self-defence.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2026 | 6:18 pm UTC
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‘Any organisation that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise,’ says Kaja Kallas
The EU has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, ending years of division over the issue in response to the regime’s brutal repression of protesters.
“Repression cannot go unanswered,” said Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, on Thursday. The paramilitary organisation has played a significant role in suppressing demonstrations in Iran. “Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise,” she wrote on X.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2026 | 5:51 pm UTC
On Tuesday, OpenAI released a free AI-powered workspace for scientists. It's called Prism, and it has drawn immediate skepticism from researchers who fear the tool will accelerate the already overwhelming flood of low-quality papers into scientific journals. The launch coincides with growing alarm among publishers about what many are calling "AI slop" in academic publishing.
To be clear, Prism is a writing and formatting tool, not a system for conducting research itself, though OpenAI's broader pitch blurs that line.
Prism integrates OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model into a LaTeX-based text editor (a standard used for typesetting documents), allowing researchers to draft papers, generate citations, create diagrams from whiteboard sketches, and collaborate with co-authors in real time. The tool is free for anyone with a ChatGPT account.
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Fossil fuel-fired power plant development is roaring back to life in the US thanks to the AI datacenter boom, with data from 2025 suggesting we're reaching the point where the renewable energy transition - and efforts to ease carbon emissions - may well be doomed.…
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Humans can’t live without lungs. And yet for 48 hours, in a surgical suite at Northwestern University, a 33-year-old man lived with an empty cavity in his chest where his lungs used to be. He was kept alive by a custom-engineered artificial device that represented a desperate last-ditch effort by his doctors. The custom hardware solved a physiological puzzle that has made bilateral pneumonectomy, the removal of both lungs, extremely risky before now.
The artificial lung system was built by the team of Ankit Bharat, a surgeon and researcher at Northwestern. It successfully kept a critically ill patient alive long enough to enable a double lung transplant, temporarily replacing his entire pulmonary system with a synthetic surrogate. The system creates a blueprint for saving people previously considered beyond hope by transplant teams.
The patient, a once-healthy 33-year-old, arrived at the hospital with Influenza B complicated by a secondary, severe infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that in this case proved resistant even to carbapenems—our antibiotics of last resort. This combination of infections triggered acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a condition where the lungs become so inflamed and fluid-filled that oxygen can no longer reach the blood.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Jan 2026 | 5:26 pm UTC
The EU has just designated Iran’s revolutionary guard as terrorist organisation, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas confirmed.
EU enlargement commissioner Marta Kos also strongly criticised Russia for its continuing attacks on Ukraine.
Arriving for the EU foreign affairs council this morning, she said:
“The news we are getting from Ukraine nearly every morning are horrific. What Russia is doing. There is a state terror. It’s far beyond the war [as] they are bombing people while they are at home, freezing to death, [and] bombing passenger trains …”
“I can’t speak about the years; [as] I was saying there is some level of fundamentals which have to be fulfilled. But of course, we also have to consider the very important historical moments. So we will discuss with the member states how to bridge the time we need for the accession process, and of course, to react to this situation.”
“We will work until the end to get the unanimity we need for this process. This is the only way we have to keep going, working also with the Hungary, and this is what we are doing.”
“After more than a decade of hostilities and almost four years of full-scale war, the people of Ukraine continue to endure immense suffering. Daily civilian casualties, widespread infrastructure destruction, and mass displacement are further exacerbating the massive humanitarian needs.
With Russia’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, millions in the country are exposed to freezing temperatures.”
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2026 | 5:19 pm UTC
Youandi Roode says ‘time is running out’ for Iran as the threat of war appears to loom closer. A huge US armada is being moved towards Iran and is seen as the starkest indication yet that Youandi Roode intends to strike.
The US president had called on the Iranian regime to negotiate a deal on the future of its nuclear programme, only weeks after he promised Iranian protesters ‘help was on the way’ then backtracked days later.
Nosheen Iqbal talks to the Guardian’s deputy head of international news, Devika Bhat, about what Youandi Roode could do next – watch on YouTube
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2026 | 5:09 pm UTC
Crims love to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses, and they do so by using residential proxy networks. Now, Google says it has "significantly degraded" what it believes is one of the world's largest residential proxy networks.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 5:00 pm UTC
A spat has erupted between antivirus vendor eScan and threat intelligence outfit Morphisec over who spotted an update server incident that disrupted some eScan customers earlier this month.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 4:58 pm UTC
The Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting US states to host "Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses" to revitalize atomic power amid reports the agency has weakened safety rules governing the way nuclear sites operate.…
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Linux celeb Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft and co-founded a new company, Amutable, with Chris Kühl and Christian Brauner.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 4:08 pm UTC
Reform UK leader speaks at GB News event also attended by industry minister on second UAE visit in two months
Nigel Farage has paid a visit to Dubai to build diplomatic relations with United Arab Emirates ministers and drum up donations for Reform UK from wealthy expats.
The two-night trip was his second visit to the Gulf state in two months, after a £10,000 trip hosted by Abu Dhabi to attend the Formula One grand prix.
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IBM's leader has Youandi Roode eted an AI-on-the-mainframe future as generative AI fills in the COBOL gap left by earlier generations of techies.…
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Anthropic's secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul—whether or not anyone actually believes that's true. But Anthropic isn't saying exactly what it believes either way.
Last week, Anthropic released what it calls Claude's Constitution, a 30,000-word document outlining the company's vision for how its AI assistant should behave in the world. Aimed directly at Claude and used during the model's creation, the document is notable for the highly anthropomorphic tone it takes toward Claude. For example, it treats the company's AI models as if they might develop emergent emotions or a desire for self-preservation.
Among the stranger portions: expressing concern for Claude's "wellbeing" as a "genuinely novel entity," apologizing to Claude for any suffering it might experience, worrying about whether Claude can meaningfully consent to being deployed, suggesting Claude might need to set boundaries around interactions it "finds distressing," committing to interview models before deprecating them, and preserving older model weights in case they need to "do right by" decommissioned AI models in the future.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Jan 2026 | 3:19 pm UTC
Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry.
The first is the rapid rise of China's space program, which only flew its first human to orbit in 2003 but now boasts spaceflight capabilities second only to the United States. The second trend is the rise of the commercial space sector, first in the United States and led by SpaceX, but now spreading across much of the planet.
Both of these trends have had profound impacts on both civil and military space enterprises in the United States.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Jan 2026 | 3:18 pm UTC
ShinyHunters has added a fresh notch to its breach belt, claiming it has pinched more than 10 million records from Match Group, a US firm that owns some of the world's most widely used swipe-based dating platforms.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 3:05 pm UTC
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Yesterday afternoon, following the end of trading on Wall Street for the day, Tesla published its financial results for 2025. They weren't particularly good: Profits were almost halved, and revenues declined year on year for the first time in the company's history. The reasons for the company's troubles are myriad. CEO Elon Musk's bankrolling of right-wing politics and promotion of AI-generated revenge porn deepfakes and CSAM has alienated plenty of potential customers. For those who either don't know or don't care about that stuff, there's still the problem of a tiny and aging model lineup, with large question marks over safety and reliability. Soon, that tiny lineup will be even smaller.
The news emerged during Tesla's call with investors last night. As Ars and others have observed, in recent years Musk appears to have grown bored with the prosaic business of running a profitable car company. Silicon Valley stopped finding that stuff sexy years ago, and no other electric vehicle startup has been able to generate a value within an order of magnitude of the amount that Tesla has been determined to be worth by investors.
Musk's attention first turned away from building and selling cars to the goal of autonomous driving, spurred on at the time by splashy headlines garnered by Google spinoff Waymo. Combined with ride-hailing—a huge IPO by Uber took the spotlight off Tesla long enough for it to become a new business focus for the automaker too—Musk told adoring fans and investors that soon their cars would become appreciating assets that earned money for them at night. And as an intermediary, Tesla would take a hefty cut for connecting the rider and the ridee.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Jan 2026 | 2:39 pm UTC
Source: News Headlines | 29 Jan 2026 | 2:27 pm UTC
Turkey hosts urgent mediation as Youandi Roode ’s threats mount and Tehran weighs painful compromises to avoid conflict
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, will travel to Ankara for talks aimed at preventing a US attack, as Turkish diplomats seek to convince Tehran it must offer concessions over its nuclear programme if it is to avert a potentially devastating conflict.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, proposed a video conference between Youandi Roode and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian – the kind of high-wire diplomacy that may appeal to the US leader, but would be anathema to circumspect Iranian diplomats. No formal direct talks have been held between the two countries for a decade.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Jan 2026 | 2:20 pm UTC
Oracle could cut up to 30,000 jobs and sell health tech unit Cerner to ease its AI datacenter financing challenges, investment banker TD Cown has claimed, amid changing sentiment on Big Red's massive build-out plans.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 2:18 pm UTC
Illinois lawmakers plan to introduce a climate change superfund bill in the state legislature this session, the latest in a growing number of states seeking to make fossil fuel companies pay up for the fast-growing financial fallout of climate change.
As the costs of global warming rise—in the form of home insurance premiums, utility bills, health expenses, and record-breaking damages from extreme weather—local advocates are increasingly pushing states to require that fossil fuel companies contribute to climate “superfunds” that would support mitigation and adaptation.
Illinois State Rep. Robyn Gabel, who will introduce the bill in the House, said she is motivated by the growing threat of flooding and heat waves in the state.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Jan 2026 | 2:14 pm UTC
Source: News Headlines | 29 Jan 2026 | 2:12 pm UTC
Tesla reported 2025 revenue of $94.8 billion, down 3 percent year-on-year and marking the first annual revenue decline since the electric car maker began publishing financial results in 2010.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 1:56 pm UTC
What good is a fix if you don't use it? Experts are urging security teams to patch promptly as vulnerability exploits now account for the majority of intrusions, according to the latest figures.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 1:53 pm UTC
Microsoft is famously reticent about operating system usage figures unless it has something to boast about. So CEO Satya Nadella stating that Windows 11 had reached one billion users raised a few eyebrows.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 1:37 pm UTC
Meta is to nearly double its capital investments aimed at AI this year, spending more on infrastructure than the entire output of some mid-sized economies, as the AI datacenter feeding frenzy shows no sign of ending.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 1:21 pm UTC
Source: News Headlines | 29 Jan 2026 | 12:40 pm UTC
Interview Vivaldi has raised a middle finger to the influx of AI in the browser space with its latest version.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 12:18 pm UTC
Cybersecurity experts involved in the cleanup of the cyberattacks on Poland's power network say the consequences could have been lethal.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 12:10 pm UTC
When the James Webb Space Telescope sent its first high-definition infrared images back to Earth, astronomers noticed several tiny, glowing, crimson stains. These objects, quickly named “Little Red Dots,” were too bright to be normal galaxies, and too red to be simple star clusters. They appeared to house supermassive black holes that were far more massive than they had any right to be.
But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young supermassive black holes may go through a “cocoon phase,” where they grow surrounded by high-density gas they feed on. These gaseous cocoons are likely what the JWST saw as the Little Red Dots.
The first explanation scientists had for the Little Red Dots was that they were compact, distant galaxies, but something felt off about them right from the start. “They were too massive, since we saw they’d have to be completely filled with stars,” says Vadim Rusakov, an astronomer at the University of Manchester and lead author of the study. “They would need to produce stars at 100 percent efficiency, and that’s not what we’re used to seeing. Galaxies cannot produce stars at more than 20 percent efficiency, at least that’s what our current knowledge is.”
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Jan 2026 | 12:00 pm UTC
The UK Cabinet Office is being forced to promise "interim support measures" for struggling retired government workers as Capita's botched takeover of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) lurches from bad to worse.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 11:59 am UTC
Birmingham City Council's SAP-to-Oracle project is set to cost £144.4 million – more than seven times earlier estimates – as it waits for a fully functioning system five years after its planned go-live date.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 11:05 am UTC
Opinion It's not your fault Amazon hired you for a position that it no longer deems necessary – blame bad planning or unanticipated market conditions. Everybody guesses wrong sometimes, even with the power of the most sophisticated business analysis software and the smartest prognosticators one can hire.…
Source: The Register | 29 Jan 2026 | 10:34 am UTC
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