January 2026 Archive
4471.
Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System (cambridge.org)
4472.
Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger (theregister.com)
4473.
Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir dies at 78 (apnews.com)
4474.
EU readies €93B tariffs in retaliation to Trump's Greenland threat (ft.com)
4475.
Drew Devault's new microkernel (called "Hermes") blog post (drewdevault.com)
4476.
"TSMC's U.S. Production Costs 2.4 Times Higher Than That in Taiwan" (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
4477.
Show HN: PicoFlow – a tiny DSL-style Python library for LLM agent workflows
4478.
Capital One to Acquire Brex (investor.capitalone.com)
4479.
Epic and Google have a secret $800M Unreal Engine and services deal (theverge.com)
4480.
Advocacy groups call on Apple, Google to drop X and Grok from app stores (reuters.com)
4481.
US officially exits World Health Organization (abcnews.go.com)
4482.
Nobel Institute affirms that Venezuela's Machado can't give Peace Prize to Trump (latimes.com)
4483.
Taiwan will invest $250B in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal (cnbc.com)
4484.
Wikipedia Inks AI Deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity (apnews.com)
4485.
Why is the S combinator an S? (blog.plover.com)
4486.
China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US Government cleared for export – report (theguardian.com)
4487.
Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence (propublica.org)
4488.
iOS 26.3 Adds Privacy Setting to Limit Carrier Location Tracking (macrumors.com)
4489.
Ham Radio Crackdown in Belarus: Amateurs Face Death (steanlab.medium.com)
4490.
Taliban's New Law Legalises Slavery in Afghanistan, Makes Mullahs Immune (ndtv.com)
4491.
Google Engineer Found Guilty of Sending AI Secrets to China (justice.gov)
4492.
Trump calls for $1.5T military budget in 2027, up from $901B in 2026 (reuters.com)
4493.
Cancer might protect against Alzheimer's – this protein helps explain why (nature.com)
4494.
God Emperor Trump (en.wikipedia.org)
4495.
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source, tests reveal (theguardian.com)
4496.
Almost All of Vimeo Staff Laid Off After Acquisition by Bending Spoons (petapixel.com)
4497.
The Secretive VIP Programs That Keep Gamers Spending (nytimes.com)
4498.
Factsheet – EU-India Free Trade Agreement: Main Benefits (policy.trade.ec.europa.eu)
4499.
Amazon Will Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Layoffs (forbes.com)
4500.
SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs (turbek.com)