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UPS plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding down its partnership with Amazon; it expects $3B in savings related to the Amazon unwind (Laya Neelakandan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/ups-job-cuts-amazon-unwind-turnaround-plan.html

UPS to cut additional 30,000 jobs in Amazon unwind, turnaround plan
UPS announced it will eliminate an additional 30,000 jobs as it winds down its partnership with Amazon.

ChatGPT Wrapped: Chats statt Musik-Playlisten
OpenAI führt für ChatGPT einen persönlichen Jahresrückblick ein, der an Spotifys Wrapped erinnert. "Dein Jahr in..."
https://www.heise.de/ne…

Just got a new monitor, an ASUS ProArt PA32QCV. First time I've had a high density display for my Windows desktop. It's nice!
(Eloi friends, you are welcome to mock me on this one: it took Windows forever to catch up on Retina and it's still behind.)

Exploiting Spot Instances for Time-Critical Cloud Workloads Using Optimal Randomized Strategies
Neelkamal Bhuyan, Randeep Bhatia, Murali Kodialam, TV Lakshman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14612

I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.