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Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…

A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley's buzziest robot brains | TechCrunch
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

Rachael Bade, who previously co-authored Politico Playbook, Sean Spicer, and Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine plan online political show The Huddle (Status)
https://www.status.news/p/sean-spicer-rachel-bade-dan-turrentine-show-youtube

The 'Huddle' in Washington
Rachael Bade is teaming up with Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine on a new venture, Status has learned, braving the crowded independent media space with a new political show.

So I was going to write a short piece about this, but I'm so plumb out of time, and it would be so weird to put this in Metacurity as a special report that I'm writing a social media thread instead.
Last summer, I wrote a piece about the Coinbase breach based on an extensive conversation I had with the exchange's CSO, Philip Martin, who has serious chops as a cybersecurity guy.

Behind the Coinbase breach: Bribery emerges as enterprise threat
Coinbase’s breach shows how bribery schemes — long used for SIM swaps — can be a potent enterprise attack vector. Experts urge security leaders to add bribery training and red-teaming to their cyber defense toolkits.

How Raiders' Timing Has Revealed Their Top Head Coach Candidate https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-timing-has-revealed-their-top-head-coach-candidate

I'm installing and tweaking #Immich, a really neat "Google Photos" like app that runs locally. It uses ML to do face detection and other neat features. I've been tuning my server and needed a better way to measure performance, so I vibe wrote a helper script. If you run Immich, this might be useful to you:

GitHub - rubix1138/immich_eta: Script that queries the Immich API and calculates and ETA
Script that queries the Immich API and calculates and ETA - rubix1138/immich_eta

What's all this fuss about #StormChandra? I got to work and back today without getting more than trivially damp. #Mastodaoine
(Judicious timing informed by

12 hour Rainfall Radar - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service
Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, is the leading provider of weather information and related services for Ireland.

There's two other very interesting MX Linux iso's that I'd like to point to:
- the official Fluxbox version, which still offers a lot of the tools and software available to the generic XFCE version
- the minimal XFCE community spin (you know I had to check that out)
Fluxbox is actually a very nice floater, and coupled with the tools, theming and ecosystem of MX is a great choice for those old Thinkpads!

Epic Games partners with Unity to bring games made with Unity Engine to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's longterm vision to make Fortnite into an open metaverse (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/823233/for

Fortnite is getting Unity games
Epic Games is teaming up with Unity to bring games made using Unity’s engine into Fortnite.

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thinking-mach…

Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation
The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking ...

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "left" the company days after appearing on a podcast last week claiming that xAI had been skirting regulations and more (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/engineer-at-elon-m

Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
Interesting timing.