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Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applied…

Applied Compute, Founded by Ex-OpenAI Researchers, in Talks for $1.3 Billion Valuation
Applied Compute, a startup founded by three former OpenAI researchers that helps companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, including the investment, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions. The funding would ...

The Fulu Foundation, a group founded by repair advocate and YouTuber Louis Rossmann, which pays out bounties to people who can remove user-hostile features on connected devices, is now offering a potential payout of $10,000 to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require Ring devices to send data to Amazon.

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

Turkey's Zeynep Sönmez says it is more important to be a "good human being than a good tennis player"
after helping carry a fainting ball girl off court during her opening Australian Open match.
https://sport…

Turkey's Zeynep Sönmez helps ball girl who fainted on court during Australian Open match
The ball girl collapsed in Sönmez's arms as Sönmez helped her to a seat in the shade. Sönmez went on to a first-round upset of No. 11 seed Ekaterina...

The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century (Jessica Grose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/heritage-foundation-women.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p55#a260121p55

#Graz-Wahl findet bereits im Juni statt
https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3342718/
"In der Stadt Graz wird am Sonntag, 28. Juni, ein neuer Gemeinderat gewählt."
Okay, aber so…

Logic Pro und Final Cut Pro: Drei-Monats-Trial derzeit noch verfügbar
Mit Einführung des Creator Studio verschwinden auch die beliebten Testversionen von Apples Profisoftware. Derzeit findet man sie aber noch.

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College …

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Before you head out for the weekend (and if you're lucky for a long Thanksgiving break), check out today's Metacurity for a ton of top infosec developments you should know, including
--SEC drops ill-fated cyberattack lawsuit against SolarWinds, CISO,
--FCC gets rid of Biden-era reporting rules addressing Salt Typhoon intrusions,
--Cybercrime money laundering network active in the UK bought a bank,
--Russian intel services funded former Wirecard exec's spy r…

SEC drops ill-fated cyberattack lawsuit against SolarWinds, CISO
FCC gets rid of Biden-era reporting rules addressing Salt Typhoon intrusions, Cybercrime money laundering network active in the UK bought a bank, Russian intel services funded former Wirecard exec's spy ring, Salesforce probes another third-party cyber incident, NSO appeals judge's ruling, much more

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build interactive AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/technology/humans-ai-anthropic-xai.html<…

An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them
Founded by researchers from Anthropic, Google and xAI, the new company, Humans&, is already valued at $4.48 billion.