2026-01-23 11:33:00
Binance files for a pan-European MiCA license in Greece, where it has also set up a holding company (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/binance-files-for-crucial-eu-wide-license-creates-greek-holding-company/
Trump says he will meet Zelensky today in Davos: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/trump-says-he-will-meet.html
Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts!
Vad har kuppen mot Louvren och en experimentell fusionsreaktor gemensamt? #blogg https://erikdelareguera.com/2026/01/22/vad-har-kuppen-mot-lo…
So Godwin’s law aged badly then.
Yes, I support the only democracy in the middle east :Rojava: :pkk:
First day working at Microsoft 365, wish me luck! :elmo_fire:
RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863
Computing in 2026 is running indeterministic software on indeterministic hardware
House Rep. Rosa DeLauro (from CT) says:
❝I understand that many of my Democratic colleagues may be dissatisfied with any bill that funds ICE. …[But]… The Homeland Security funding bill is more than just ICE. If we allow a lapse in funding, TSA agents will be forced to work without pay, FEMA assistance could be delayed, and the US Coast Guard will be adversely affected….❞
And I am saying stop ICE if you have to ••shut down every airport in the country•• to do it.
That is the message I want Congress to hear. That serious. This is Trump starting a civil war.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/democrats-ice-funding-bill
Intel reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.4B est., and a net loss of $600M, and offers soft guidance for Q1; INTC drops 7% after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/intel-intc-earnings-report-q4-2025-.html
Kremlin says Ukrainian forces must leave Donbas as key condition for peace: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/kremlin-says-ukrainian-forces-must.html
RE: https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-7069-7212-ab10-204578267690
“We must never forget one thing: a world in which only power counts is a dangerous place — first for small states, then for middle powers, and ultimately for the great on…
Waymo launches its robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth market, initially covering a 60-square-mile area, and partners with Moove for fleet management (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/waymo-launches-robotaxi-service-in-miami-…
SBU UAVs attacked the Taman Oil Port in the Krasnodar region in Russia #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/sbu-uavs-attacked-the-taman.html
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover/115935180169971454
Folks, if we do everything like the US does in the EU, one day this could be us.
So think big, people, think big and remember: continue with business as usual. We can do this! I …
Spotify expands its AI-powered Prompted Playlists beta to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following initial testing in New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/spotify-brings-ai-powered-prompted-pla…
TikTok USA: Behördliche Genehmigungen für Verkauf sollen fertig sein
Lange wurde mit harten Bandagen gekämpft, jetzt zeichnet sich das Closing ab: TikTok USA erhält neue Eigentümer.
https://www.…
✍️ SECURITY GUARANTEES will be SIGNED only AFTER THE WAR ENDS, — Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/security-guarantees-will-be-signed.html
RE: https://todon.eu/@meanmicio/115938212384332293
Heck, I even made a house call to their parliament but I might as well have stayed at home for all the good it did so I wouldn’t hold my breath. It’s not that they don’t know, it’s that their whole framing is t…
NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html
Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…
2026 — year of Russia’s exhaustion: is the war entering its final phase?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/year-of-russias-exhaustion-is.html
Were Israel to shoot a Western journalist, the journalist would be like “I guess I was Hamas, oh, well, I guess I’ll die.”
I use “journalist”, here, very loosely. @… https://
Intel macht weniger Minus als erwartet
Intel rutscht zurück in die roten Zahlen, allerdings weniger stark als befürchtet. An der Börse rasselt die Aktie trotzdem herunter.
https://www.heise.de/news/Inte…
Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/snapchat-gives-parents-n…
Ethical Technology or Feudalism?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FsF4sdMPYas
A talk I gave six years ago that I’d highly urge you to watch. Still entirely relevant today, if not more so (sadly).
(What I call the Indienet in the talk is what I now call the Small Web; a peer-to-peer Web owned and…
First trilateral meeting Ukraine–US–Russia: war close to ending?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/first-trilateral-meeting-ukraineusrussia-war.html
Digitaler Befreiungsschlag: EU-Parlament fordert Loslösung von US-Tech-Riesen
EU-Abgeordnete skizzieren einen Kurswechsel in der Digitalpolitik. Sie verlangen Unabhängigkeit von US-Infrastrukturen sowie mehr heimische KI und Open Source.
Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-now-offers-free-sat-pr…
I just looked at the first commit for Kitten (then called NodeKit) from *four years ago* and, boy, has it come a long way since then :)
Four years ago: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/commit/d8b59a8d9fc5625f510205b3f4fa798aedc57832
Today:
A million-dollar parking fee: Canada's high-stakes battle over a stranded Russian plane: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/a-milliondollar-parking-fee-canadas.html
Elon Musk says Tesla launched robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver; Tesla's AI lead says Tesla is "starting with a few unsupervised vehicles" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/tesl
Einführung von Starterpacks: X kopiert Bluesky
Die US-Plattform X führt Starterpacks ein. Damit kopiert der Kurznachrichtendienst eine beliebte Funktion von Bluesky.
https://www.heise.de/news/Ei…
Sources: the US and China approve a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/22/2026/china-us-sign-off-on-tiktok-us-spinoff
Russian military court acknowledges Moskva cruiser was hit by Ukrainian missiles, says 20 killed as press release is removed: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/russian-military-court-acknowledges-moskva.html
ESA-Sonnensonden Proba-3: Zeitraffer zeigt gleich drei heftige Protuberanzen
Die ESA-Sonden Proba-3 erforschen mithilfe von künstlichen Sonnenfinsternissen die Korona unseres Heimatsterns. Nun gibt es einen beeindruckenden Zeitraffer.
Google rolls out Personal Intelligence in AI Mode, providing access to users' Gmail and Google Photos for more tailored responses, for US Pro and Ultra subs (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/goog
“I love it when I press a flat button and it morphs briefly into a skeuomorphic shiny bubble of some sort before morphing back into a flat menu.”
– said no one, ever
#LiquidGlass #apple
❗️Zelenskyy: Too early to draw conclusions on negotiation content #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/zelenskyy-too-early-to-draw.html
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Aus für Datenatlas Bund: 25-Millionen-Euro-Grab der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung
Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131661/yann-…
Hey, guess what?
I just saw the first Small Web site (the Kitten Chat example¹ from Kitten²) running at a Web Number³:
https://91.98.66.193/
👉 Update: I’m shutting it down in a few moments so it might not be there when you try it :)
Come say hi (I don’t know how long I’ll keep it on for, will update this when I turn it off.)
🥳
PS. This is only in the ip-address-support branch of Kitten right now and should be considered experimental. Will likely make it in…
WATCH! Finnish volunteer Karlo: frontline reality in Ukraine | Live Broadcast: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/watch-finnish-volunteer-karlo-frontline.html
Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised a $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M , says it has ARR of $10M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/…
We asked an expert about Russia's 'updated' mass missile, drone tactics: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/we-asked-an-expert-about.html
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dänischer US-Boykott: Apps sortieren Waren im Supermarkt aus
TikTok says ByteDance sold a majority stake in the app's US operations to a group of non-Chinese investors, including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us…
Trump and Zelenskyy REACHED A DEAL? Kremlin drags out PEACE PROCESS again | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/trump-and-zelenskyy-reached-a.html
Schnelle Evolution: Neue Spezies erscheinen 2000 Jahre nach Chicxulub-Einschlag
Der Einschlag des Asteroiden im heutigen Yucatan löschte fast das ganze Leben auf der Erde aus. Es erholte sich schneller als bisher angenommen.
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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/tiktok-forms-us-joint-venture-names-a-ceo…
Secure Ukraine – secure Europe! Western leaders ramp up pressure against the Kremlin: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/secure-ukraine-secure-europe-western.html
Asus ProArt PA32KCX: Erster 8K-Monitor seit 8 Jahren verfügbar
Im deutschen Handel ist eine Seltenheit angekommen: ein PC-Monitor mit hoher 8K-Auflösung. Ein Colorimeter ist auch dabei.
https://www.
Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/exclusive-cubby-raises-63-million…
Anti-drone jammers across Russia are immobilizing BMW and Porsche vehicles, reports say: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/antidrone-jammers-across-russia-are.html
Helgoland probte den Blackout
Plötzlich kein Strom, kein Licht – was passiert, wenn auf Helgoland das Seekabel ausfällt? Das wurde auf der Insel umfangreich getestet.
https://www.heise.de/news/Helgoland-probte
Adobe rolls out Firefly Foundry, which creates AI-generated "commercially safe" images, video, and more grounded in a brand or franchise's creative universe (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/adobe-firefly-foundry-ai-caa-wme-1236692649/…
WATCH LIVE! American Veteran exposes the "Pure Evil" of Russians on the front in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/watch-live-american-veteran-exposes.html
EUROPE’S defense strategy – Security challenges in the new WORLD ORDER | Explainer: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/europes-defense-strategy-security-challenges.html
Filing: PhonePe reports H1 FY 2026 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$427.5M, a ~$157M loss, and 657.6M users; the payments company plans to sell 50.7M shares in its IPO (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Prominent Ukrainian activist tapped to advise defense minister on front-line drone combat: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/prominent-ukrainian-activist-tapped-to.html
How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (Tim Fernholz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-22/how…
Analysen: Zwei bis drei Millionen sexualisierte Deepfakes von Grok generiert
Die Kritik an den KI-generierten Deepfakes von Grok war groß, das ganze Ausmaß war bislang aber unklar. Nun haben zwei Organisationen erstmals nachgezählt.
Putin tells US envoys 'no point in hoping' for peace without Ukraine's capitulation on territories: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/putin-tells-us-envoys-no.html
Aus für Datenatlas Bund: 25-Millionen-Euro-Grab der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung
Ein Prestigeprojekt sollte die Daten von Ministerien vernetzen und Behörden fit fürs KI-Zeitalter machen. Nach massiver Kritik ist das teure Portal nun offline.
Sanctions and parts shortages push Russia’s civil aviation to the brink as engine failures surge: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/sanctions-and-parts-shortages-push.html
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-intervi…
'Extremely serious' — Ukraine's battered energy system faces worst day in 3 years, Shmyhal says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/extremely-serious-ukraines-battered-energy.html
Collabora portiert Debian auf OpenWrt One
Der erste eigene Router OpenWrt One des OpenWrt-Projekts läuft nun auch mit Debian. Das macht ihn zum Allzweck-Linux-System.
https://www.heise.de/news/Collab…
The US BOP releases Caroline Ellison, the former FTX executive and ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, after about 14 months; she had a two-year sentence (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-exec-caroline-ellison-prison-release-2026-1<…
EUROPEAN LEADERS discuss new SECURITY ARCHITECTURE #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/european-leaders-discuss-new-security.html
Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US are a "fairy tale," and China's open-source tech is "probably stressing" US CEOs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Ubisoft-Aktie verliert über 30 Prozent an Wert
Ubisoft stellt sich neu auf und Investoren auf zwei schwierige Jahre ein. Die Reaktion an den Börsen fällt krachend aus.
https://www.heise.de/news…
ZELENSKYY: MADURO IS ON TRIAL in New York, but NOT PUTIN #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/zelenskyy-maduro-is-on-trial.html
Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
In Dänemark boomen aktuell Apps, mit denen Einkäufer US-Produkte im Supermarkt identifizieren und meiden können. 📱🛒
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11149929?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_sourc…
❗️NATO calls for ADDITIONAL AIR DEFENSE SUPPORT for KYIV #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/nato-calls-for-additional-air.html
Sources: Apple expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to manage design teams at the end of 2025, solidifying his status as a leading CEO candidate (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Trotz Flaute: Solar- und Windenergie EU-weit erstmals vor fossilen Brennstoffen
In mehr als der Hälfte der EU-Staaten tragen erneuerbare Energiequellen inzwischen mehr zum Strommix bei als fossile Brennstoffe. Vor allem Solarenergie wächst.
Stubb: The problem is not Russia's ability to end the war, but its unwillingness to do so #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/stubb-the-problem-is-not.html
LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
SPRIND Bürgerhackathon: Deutschland, was nervt?
Beschweren ausdrücklich erwünscht! Die Agentur für Sprunginnovation lädt zum ersten bürgerschaftlichen Hackathon nach taiwanischem Vorbild ein.
https://www.
Circana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Kupfer-Glas-Migration: „Zwei große Haken“
Mit ihrem „Regulierungskonzept” will die Bundesnetzagentur zur Debatte über die Kupfer-Glas-Migration beitragen. Nicht alles darin gefällt den Netzbetreibern.
https://www.
Austin-based Neurophos, which develops a photon-based "Optical Processing Unit" to replace GPUs in AI training, raised $110M led by Bill Gates' Gates Frontier (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Dänischer US-Boykott: Apps sortieren Waren im Supermarkt aus
Viele Dänen haben eine große Wut auf die USA – und lassen die beim Einkaufen raus. Mit Hilfe von Apps vermeiden sie gezielt amerikanische Produkte.
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Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a commercial AI product for cross-hardware efficiency, raised a $150M seed led by a16z at an $800M valuation (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
Abzug aus USA: Bund gibt 30 Millionen Euro für unabhängige Forschungsdaten
Die wachsende Unsicherheit in der US-Wissenschaftspolitik alarmiert die Bundesregierung. Mit Millioneninvestitionen will sie die EU-Datensouveränität stärken.
Sources: Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its goal of trimming 30,000 corporate workers, after cutting 14,000 jobs in October (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-
South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens (Kyu-Seok Shim/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific<…
Apple accuses the European Commission of "political delay tactics", as the EC seems to be preparing to blame Apple for the shutdown of the Setapp app store (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Epic v. Google: Epic and Google have a secret deal involving Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android, with Epic spending $800M over six years on Google services (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/866140/epic-google-fortnite-android-u…
Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga says the Lithuania-based secondhand retailer plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to expand in the US in the coming months (Aimee Look/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thrift…