Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock that would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, following backlash (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
First stage of the STEP Fusion plant build consultation in the planning process they're intending to get it running in the 2040's; This is an old Coal power station site in West Burton they're reusing:
(I expect others to have got fusion working first, but still promising)
https://stepfusion.com/consultation/
If a not-for-profit for-profit privacy-protecting company funded by surveillance capitalism isn’t trustworthy, I don’t know what is. @… https://polymaths.social/@c…
Source: Browns cutting OT Conklin after 6 years https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48183102/browns-releasing-starting-ot-jack-conklin-source-says
Woman suffers burns in Savannah chemical attack: Police - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-suffers-3rd-degree-burns-savannah-chemical-attack/story?id=128341000
The paragon of political integrity!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/former-tory-chancellor-nadhim-zahawi-defects-to-reform-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-blackston…
🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Fixed: Errors in a project’s _main.script.js_ now cause a hard crash without retry attempts. The errors are also now better classified and communicated.
• Housekeeping: Removed unmaintained dev dependency, updated supported ES versions to esnext and simplified jsconfig.json.
Full change log:
Microsoft says that Windows 11 Xbox mode, a controller-first, full-screen gaming interface, will begin rolling out in April and work across all PC form factors (Abhijith M B/Windows Latest)
https://www.windowslatest.com/2…