Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
Mamdani Moves to 'Trump-Proof' New York as ICE Tensions Rise (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/mamdani-moves-to-trump-proof-new-york-as-ice-tensions-rise
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p87#a251208p87
Raiders are thinking outside the box in their latest coaching search https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-are-thinking-outside-the-box-in-their-latest-coaching-search-3605088/
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Tencent’s abusive bot, Chinese AI startups profiting from IPOs and Indian tech’s pessimistic outlook.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/chinese-chatbot-has-had-e…
This one ended up being quite long… In my continuing #ThinkingOutLoud series during my #ArtsPedagogy research semester, I return to #creativity and work though some more takes on it befo…
Trump and Petro make phone call. Petro explains Colombia actions against drug trafficking. Tone lowered.
Petro y Trump rebajan la tensión entre EEUU y Colombia tras una llamada de una hora: "Si no se dialoga, hay guerra"
https://www.e…
POL-GÖ: (37/2026) Pressemitteilung von Polizei und Stadt Göttingen - Erste Kontrolle in der neuen Waffenverbotszone verläuft ohne Zwischenfälle, rund 130 Personen überprüft, mehrere Messer sichergestellt Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Innenstadtbereich Freitag, 6. Februar 2026 GÖTTINGEN (ab/jk) - Nur wenige Tage nach ihrer Einführung, haben Einsatzkräfte der Polizei Göttingen gemeinsam mit Bediensteten des Fachbereichs Ordnung der Stadt ...
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A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)
https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real