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Apple unveils the iPhone 17e, offering a 6.1-inch display, 3nm A19 chip, C1X modem, a 48MP Fusion camera, and more, starting at $599 and shipping March 11 (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-iphone-17e/

Apple introduces iPhone 17e
Apple today announced the new iPhone 17e, a powerful and affordable addition to the iPhone 17 lineup.

This is an awesome website in case you want to learn anything about #batteries and how to handle them properly: https://www.batteryuniversity.com/articles

Some works exist only to give us the pleasure of reading the review that pans them. They need only be seen once, by an unfortunate critic, and then never viewed again by human eyes. As a sacrificial offering to the aesthetic gods, this hapless critic channels and then purges all that is ugly in this world, purifying us all in the caustic bath of their wit. https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/116003101576465477

Source: HBO Max is proceeding with its UK and Ireland launch on March 26, offering TNT Sports as a standalone or add-on service, despite Paramount's WBD deal (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/hbo-max-uk-launch-going-ah…

HBO Max U.K. Launch Still Going Ahead Despite Paramount Merger
The U.K. launch of HBO Max is still going ahead as planned, despite plans to combine the streaming platform with Paramount+.

"Setting the stage for the crime begins with sophisticated hackers compromising a freight broker’s load board account, which is an online marketplace where trucking loads are listed and bid on. As typical in many data breaches and other cyberattacks, the accounts are compromised through social engineering and spear phishing. After taking over a freight broker’s account, the criminals then post a fraudulent load listing offering an attractive shipment."
How Hackers And Cargo T…

How Hackers And Cargo Thieves Orchestrated The Great Massachusetts Lobster Heist
how cybercriminals and organized cargo thieves stole 40,000 pounds of lobster using hacked load boards, fictitious pickups and sophisticated supply chain attacks.

Ugh, visited 1600 websites on https://free-for.dev and removed 332 of them that are not free anymore, unclear pricing, dont exist anymore or are just rubbish.
Crazy job.

👍 Brewery offering ‘free beer, all day long’ the day Donald Trump dies - pennlive.com
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2026/01/brewery-offering-free-beer-all-day-long-the-day-donald-trump-dies.html

Why do I get the feeling that there is an org going around offering “free legal advice” on this that might be somewhat biased?
#ukpolitics #trans

Women’s Institute bans trans women from joining from April
The Women’s Institute has said it will no longer accept trans women as members in yet another blow for the community. The 110-year-old women’s rights …

My mission for 2026: drag local organisations and businesses into the #Fediverse by approaching them actively. Explaining the benefits, offering free hosting of accounts, free consultation and support.

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? #aphantasia are offering brain scient…

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUNFbR2AbG9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

VT on Instagram: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan around long working hours, rigid hierarchies, and the mental health toll of intense job expectations. Conversations about quitting or dissatisfaction have traditionally been stigmatised, making this kind of space unusual. By removing the cost barrier and offering a supportive environment, the bar aims to normalise discussions about career dissatisfaction and help people reflect on what they actually want from work, even if that means starting over."
34K likes, 169 comments - vt on January 31, 2026: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan a…

Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max, offering 4x faster LLM prompt processing, 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB or 2TB base storage, for $2,199 (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-…

Apple introduces MacBook Pro with all‑new M5 Pro and M5 Max, delivering breakthrough pro performance and next-level on-device AI
Apple announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max.

Sources: in talks with WBD, Netflix said a combination of its streaming service with HBO Max would benefit consumers by lowering the cost of a bundled offering (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC for smartwatches, offering a Hexagon NPU that it says can run on-device AI models with up to 2B parameters (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/qualcomms-snapdragon-wear-elite-is

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite is the biggest smartwatch chip upgrade in 3 years
Six things to know about Qualcomm's new 3nm wearable platform that brings on-device AI, satellite messaging, and 5G to your wrist

Seoul plans to integrate AI chatbot Maeumi into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support before a human counselor connects (Choi Jeong-yoon/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10667846

Seoul unveils new suicide-prevention measures amid persistent deaths - The Korea Herald
Seoul is confronting persistent suicide pressures, even as its rate remains the lowest in the country, prompting the city to expand both human and artificial in

Crunchyroll is raising its US prices by $2 per month; the cheapest tier gets its first price increase since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device (Isaac Rouse/Polygon.com)
https://www.polygon.com/crunchyroll-subscription-price-increase-2026/

Crunchyroll raises subscription prices for Fan, Mega, and Ultimate Tiers
Crunchyroll raises Fan, Mega, and Ultimate monthly prices by $2, effective now, while offering limited-time annual plan savings for members.

Apple unveils the M5 MacBook Air in 13" and 15" sizes, boosting its starting price by $100 to $1,099 and offering 512GB of base storage, shipping March 11 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/03/apple-ann…

Apple announces M5 MacBook Air with 2x storage, $1099 starting price - 9to5Mac
Apple has officially announced the new M5 MacBook Air. While the starting price has increased by $100, it now comes...

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

No, Gander is not a “rug pull”.
The crowd equity funding is closing, I think with ~2400 or so Canadian investors including myself, all on the same terms.
Some people didn’t sign paperwork when they got the chance at an earlier offering.
Join us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver in late March if you’d like to meet the Gander team in person

ATmosphereConf News
News from the ATProtocol Community Conference, aka ATmosphereConf. March 26th - 29th, Vancouver, BC, Canada

US struck 'big facility' in Venezuela, Trump claimed without offering details (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/trump-venezuela-facility-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p77#a251229p77

Canadian useful idiot @… is offering his full throated support for Trump’s illegal action… “down with Socialism” he says.
Predictable and disgusting.
NDP interim leader Davies condemns the action.
Stunned silence from the Prime Minister so far. I expect the mealy mouthed fence sitting to reach extreme levels.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli #venezuela

"Tracking Instructional Themes at the Reference Desk"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/view/8611
"Academic libraries play a vital role in supporting student learning by offering both structured instruction and point-of-need research assi…

So bad people are almost being paid to attend. Republican clubs buying the tickets en mass and offering them for free.
🤣🤣🤣
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/melania-trumps-film-struggles-sell-234538656.html

Melania Trump's Film Struggles To Sell Tickets, As Insiders Expose Alleged Plot To Shore Up Sales For First Lady
Poor ticket sales for the first lady Melania Trump's documentary have reportedly led to a rescue effort by the GOP.

Oracle is selling $25B of bonds to help finance its AI buildout, in what is set to be the biggest high-grade US offering since Meta's $30B bond sale last year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02…

A heads-up for anyone looking to get into Dungeon Crawl Classics—Goodman Games is running its first #DCC Demo Con online from Feb 6-8, offering #free, two-hour games for new players, run by experienced GMs.
Register at

DCC Demo Con

🌠 Meteorite crater hosts methane-making microbes—a clue to life on Mars?
#meteor

Meteorite crater hosts methane-making microbes—a clue to life on Mars?
Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater, offering insights into Earth's earliest life and the search for life beyond our planet.

Bruce is getting into fighting shape (#SotB2026 attendees, Steve’s offering a discount (

"Ikea expands second-hand furniture offering in US"
#Ikea
https://www.edie.net/ikea-expands-second-hand-furniture-offering-in-us/

Trump kept up his hard-edge attacks on immigrants -- lines that got the loudest cheers of the night.
At one point, he raised the specter of immigrants who may
“blow up our shopping centers, blow up our farms, kill people.”
❌He also falsely portrayed the vast majority of those detained by ICE in Minnesota and elsewhere as hardened criminals -- asserting that once those people were removed, crime would be nearly eliminated.
On Capitol Hill Tuesday, 🔥the top three House…

Trump Suggests He Will ‘De-Escalate’ in Minneapolis, Without Offering Details
President Trump continued to put the blame on Alex Pretti for legally carrying a weapon with a permit, saying, “You can’t walk in with guns.”

Department of Justice seizes domains for Bulgarian piracy sites https://therecord.media/bulgaria-piracy-sites-streaming-gaming-seized-us

Taking a step closer to scaling up residential #V2G, a nationwide network of Swedish electricians will start offering installations of the Ambibox DC bidirectional charger (compatible with cars from the VW Group) in February.

"A woman was watching from her porch. Someone ran up and addressed her: “Ma’am, we’re out here defending the neighborhood against ICE. We need barricade materials. Is there anything in your yard you wouldn’t mind parting with?” She nodded urgently and showed them to her backyard, offering a flower bed, an old couch, and a lawn chair. Three people helped to carry these out and add them to the barricades."

Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti
On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. In response, people drove ICE and Minneapolis police out of the neighborhood.

Some City Some Nature VI 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 VI 🏙️🪾
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Rams at Falcons on MNF: Updated odds, playoff stakes, Stafford's MVP push https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6924681/2025/12/29/rams-falcons-mnf-stafford-nacua-how-to-watch/

More British warmongering.
UK youth to be offered military ‘gap year’ in bid to boost defence: Report | Military News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/27/uk-youth-to-be-offered-milita…

UK youth to be offered military ‘gap year’ in bid to boost defence: Report
UK plans to boost ranks of armed forces by offering young people paid military experience amid growing Russian threats.

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes #BCI

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes - npj Flexible Electronics
Neural representations arise from high-dimensional population activity, but current neuromodulation methods lack the precision to write information into the central nervous system at this complexity. In this perspective, we propose high-dimensional stimulation as an approach to better approximate natural neural codes for brain-machine interfaces. Key advancements in resolution, coverage, and safety are essential, with flexible microelectrode arrays offering a promising path toward precise synth…

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
TARRANT: You're offering to let her go. That's not the same thing.
AVON: What are you talking about?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/510 B7B4

Bitbucket recently announced shutting down inactive workspaces.
I logged there, and my Ph.D stuff (mostly papers, some Python) were all there.
To preserve them, I asked #Copilot to write a script to move them to GitHub.
If you want to admire the slop, there’s now a post about it

Migrate Bitbucket repositories to GitHub · Technical inconsistencies blog
Just before Christmas, I got an email from Bitbucket saying that inactive workspaces will be deleted. Almost 20 years ago, I created a Bitbucket workspace to host my university stuff (mostly for my research thesis and various papers). And while I have the final PDFs, I did not want all that LaTeX to go to waste, so I decided to migrate everything to GitHub (which, since 20 years ago, added private repositories to their free offering).

TransLink offering free transit on New Year’s Eve
Customers ride for free starting at 5 p.m. on December 31
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496305bc86358cd7f7e586cd78942324b98893a48c639a23f1f694ea285081
TransLink is …

INCREASED INCENTIVES: DHS Now Offering $3K Holiday Stipend Through End of The Year Via the CBP Home App for Illegal Aliens to Leave Now (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/22/increased-incentives-dhs-now-offering-3k-holiday-stipend-through-end-year-cbp-home
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p61#a251222p61

4 standout Senior Bowl edge rushers moving onto Cowboys' radar https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/28/4-early-senior-bowl-standouts-dallas-cowboys-defensive-end/8840216700…

“My friend, we are completely aligned on Syria. We can do great things in Iran. I don’t understand what you are doing in Greenland”
– Macron to Trump in private message
My friend, we should be fucking over Brown people together like we always do, I don’t understand why you are trying to fuck over white people.

Trump shares private message from Macron offering G7 meeting in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday offered to host a G7 summit in Paris in a private text message to US President Donald Trump, adding that he could invite “the Russians” on the sidelines. The US president then posted the message, which was authenticated on Tuesday morning by the French president's entourage, on his Truth Social platform.

FSR4 is now on Vulkan. But not thanks to AMD. : r/radeon
https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1rch6tt/fsr4_is_now_on_vulkan_but_not_thanks_to_amd/

I want a Therma-FIT Air Milano Jacket.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timnewcomb/2025/10/23/nike-unveils-air-milano-olympics-jacket-and-powered-footwear-system/

How some companies are trying to become the "Strava of tennis" by offering match video, stats, highlights, social features, and performance analysis for players (Charlie Eccleshare/The Athletic)

Amateur tennis players love data as much as the pros. The race to monetize it is on
With more players, comes more data and companies are queuing up to be the Strava of tennis

Jets Receive Major Take on Former Raiders HC Jon Gruden https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jets-major-take-jon-gruden/

Not going to happen for me. My personal preference is Vivaldi. Chrome is only used when Vivaldi has a problem with a site and that doesn't happen very often.
https://flip.it/b4Fr2-

Couple this with the news Truth Social embraces #aislop plus X offering instant inline posted photo editing …
White House Confirms It Altered Photo Of Activist Arrested In Minneapolis
http://web.archive.org/web/20260122223025/https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2026/01/22/white-house-confirms-it-altered-photo-of-activist-arrested-in-minneapolis/

This year has been the most difficult health-wise for me. I am extremely grateful to all you Fediverse Friends who have helped me in any way.
Offering advice or wishing me well, helping with weird code or computer things, sharing your blogs do I can distract myself from the pain.
I love this Fediverse thing we’ve created. ❤️

Future launches Future Optic, a commercial Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO, service that aims to boost brand visibility on AI platforms like ChatGPT (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/fu…

Future leverages high visibility on ChatGPT by offering GEO as a service
Future has launched a new division offering GEO as a service to brands.

"Pilgrim Table" — an exciting new venture by Kashmiri Schmookler '24 M.A.R. offering hospitality, spiritual accompaniment, and belonging for pilgrims and seekers before, during, and after journeys—including those actively walking pilgrimage routes.
https://www.pilgrimtable.com/

Roadtrip Radiance
(July 2021, the blinding evening light stopped us in our tracks to take it all in, also a rare image of @…... Been creating more print proofs last night, slowly preparing myself for offering limited edition toned kallitype prints of my images... A phone image of this print doesn't really do it justice, but this is fresh from the drying…

absolutely losing it over a post in my building's message board trying to sell used protein powder

Sorry for not offering this earlier, but if you're a parent of a Brown student and they need help (a ride, a coffee, whatever), please email me and I'm happy to try to help.
https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Contact/

declared without offering evidence

Filing: Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice aims to raise up to ~$600M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 28.9M shares at up to ~$21 each (Nichiket Sunil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-based-gigadev…

Trump Suggests He Will 'De-Escalate' in Minneapolis, Without Offering Details (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/trump-minneapolis-crackdown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p10#a260128p10

Few days home alone while the fam are in the Arctic visiting Santa.
Worked on my Configuration Manager bringing to it super simple network attached behaviours for Hiera-in-shell and resource manifests
NATS Servers are trivial to run, literally, "./nats-server -js" is all this needs at the minimum and there is even a SaaS Offering with good enough free tier for what this needs.

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.

Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to ~$538.5M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 25.4M shares at a price range of ~$19.40 to ~$21.20 per share (Shivangi Lahiri/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

. @… thanks for the email offering $150 off the cost of attending DrupalCon Chicago but I’m afraid I simply cannot accept your offer.
Have you considered holding the event in a country that isn’t too dangerous for me to attend?
#Drupal

Omg, patently wrong. To begin with, I am the one using the GTX 1650, and my video shows that it's working great even with DLSS, as opposed to the viewer with the AMD problem. And that parrotting nincompoop of an AI wants me to - what? - save time, give technical advice, make some small talk? What a big, smoking hot, pointless pile of b this technology turns out to be.
And I guess Google lets the same fucking stupid LM to determine how to recommend my video to other viewers? Great!<…

"Freedom 250, a public-private partnership that will help execute the celebrations, is soliciting donations and offering ‘bespoke packages’ to donors"
Freedom 250 group offering access to Trump for donations, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/freedom-250-trump-donors-celebrations-b2916386.html

Privacy-focused MVNO Cape, which has raised $61M from a16z and others, launches across the US following a March 2025 beta, offering a $99 monthly plan (Steven Melendez/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91481000/this-

This new privacy-focused phone service is designed to keep your phone from getting hacked
Cape, which offers a range of enhanced privacy and security measures, is now offering service across the United States. 

Trump's personal lawyer
#Robert #Garson told the Telegraph newspaper that he has held conversations with the US state department about💥 offering refuge to British Jews who are leaving the UK -- citing rising antisemitism.
Garson, 49, said he felt the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews”.
He adde…

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/…

Adobe’s Firefly Foundry AI Offering Draws Support From Talent Agencies, Filmmakers, VFX Houses & Others
Adobe is rolling out a new AI offering backed by major talent agencies, filmmakers and visual effects houses focused on preserving human creativity.

A request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
https://mastodon.social/@wesdym/115731049092776077

So, it's really going to happen. My next book to be published by Wiley is slated for release in April.
I have analyzed some high-profile cyber incidents and mapped them to the outcomes in the NIST 2.0 Framework.
The goal is to give real-world relevance to what can sometimes be dry but absolutely necessary cybersecurity fundamentals that all defenders should take to heart.
Even more exciting is that Wiley will be offering corporate and government purchasers some intere…

Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9M shares at ~$3.61 each; trading expected to start February 10 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Q&A with Bostopia's Evan George on his TikTok and Instagram videos under @bostopianews, summarizing Boston local news while offering his own opinions (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/bostopias-…

Bostopia’s Evan George serves Boston daily news from a lefty perspective
"You don't need to pretend to [to be neutral] or be worried about [what people think]. Because now it just sounds like you're hiding things and nobody trusts or believes that anymore."

Alex Pretti's Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing -- offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him (Anthony Blair/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/25/us-news/alex-prettis-sig-p320-may-have-gone-off-accidentally-experts-suggest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p22#a260125p22

Coupang says it is offering $1B in compensation to all 33.7M customers affected by South Korea's biggest-ever data breach, after an ex-staffer accessed data (Shinhye Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, "a general-purpose digital worker" that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/perplexity-may-have-built-a…

Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw
Claude Code and OpenClaw have taken 2026 by storm by offering the first glimpses of personal AI agents. Perplexity just unveiled an agent that could p...

The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…

Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…

OpenAI Seeks Premium Prices in Early Ads Push
In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge. But unlike Meta or Google, OpenAI won’t be providing detailed information about the query responses ...

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/…

Adobe’s Firefly Foundry AI Offering Draws Support From Talent Agencies, Filmmakers, VFX Houses & Others
Adobe is rolling out a new AI offering backed by major talent agencies, filmmakers and visual effects houses focused on preserving human creativity.

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

Sources: Amazon is planning a marketplace where publishers can sell content to companies offering AI products; Microsoft has rolled out a similar service (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-ai-content-marketpla…

Amazon Discusses AI Content Marketplace With Publishers
Amazon has indicated to publishing industry executives that it is planning to launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content to firms offering AI products, according to two people who spoke with Amazon about the project. Those discussions come as publishers and AI companies are ...

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially files for a US IPO after withdrawing a previous IPO last year, and a listing could take place as soon as April (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-cerebras-files-confidenti…

Exclusive: Cerebras Files Confidentially For a U.S. IPO
Cerebras Systems has again made a confidential filing for a U.S. public offering, according to people with knowledge of its plans. The designer of AI chips and systems has been meeting with prospective investors before a potential listing that could take place as soon as this April, they said. The company had aimed to go public last year, but announced last December it was withdrawing its IPO

AMC Networks' Sundance Now rebrands from offering scripted TV to airing indie film and festival titles, for $7.99/month, as this year's Sundance Festival begins (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrepor…

Sundance Now to Rebrand as “Algorithm-Free” Streaming Service for Indie Film
AMC Networks runs the shingle that previously had scripted TV offerings.

Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…

OpenAI Seeks Premium Prices in Early Ads Push
In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge. But unlike Meta or Google, OpenAI won’t be providing detailed information about the query responses ...

Editors and freelance journalists say AI has brought more productivity, increased expectations of speed, a need for more vetting, and sometimes job-loss fears (Marina Adami/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-ai-is-transforming-freelance-journalis…

How AI is transforming freelance journalism
One freelancer said he's been offering editors access to his Google Docs version histories as evidence that he does the writing himself.

WBD's board says it will "carefully review and consider" Paramount's revised offer, which includes a full backstop personally guaranteed by Larry Ellison (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

Warner Bros. Discovery Says It Will “Carefully Review and Consider” Paramount’s Revised Offer
David Ellison submitted his revised tender offering, backed by his father Larry Ellison, Monday morning.

Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/politics/sec-crypto-winklevoss.html

S.E.C. Drops Case Against Cryptocurrency Firm Founded by Winklevoss Twins
The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.

The Spectator has 113K subscribers, a record, print is its fastest-growing type of subscription, and it is offering its subscription service to external clients (Freddie Sayers/The Spectator)
https://spectator.com/article/the-spectators-record-subscriber-numbers/

The Spectator’s record subscriber numbers
Something remarkable is happening at the world’s oldest weekly magazine. After years of relatively flat subscriber numbers, The Spectator has surged past its Covid-era peak and now has more paying subscribers than at any point in its 198-year history. Today’s ABC circulation figures show that, while most of our competitors have been on a downward trajectory

Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-openais-chatb…

Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis
Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.

A look at stablecoin-powered neobanks like Rizon and Dakota that are offering dollar-denominated digital banking services to customers worldwide (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/the-sta…

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

Amagi slides in India debut, as cloud TV software firm tests investor appetite | TechCrunch
Amagi shares debuted at a 12% discount, offering an early read on investor demand for a rare type of tech listing in India.

Google unveils the $499 Pixel 10A, offering the same Tensor G4 chip as the 9A, 8GB of RAM, and an 11% brighter display, in 128GB and 256GB, shipping March 4 (Todd Haselton/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/880400/pixel-10a-hands-on-a-little-too-…

Ireland launches Europe's first unscripted tax credit, offering a 20% rebate on the lowest eligible expenditure, capped at €15M per production, until 2028 end (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/ireland-unscripted-tax-credit-1236664183/

Ireland Introduces Europe’s First Unscripted Tax Credit
Ireland is launching Europe's first tax relief system for unscripted productions, offering a rebate of up to 20% of expenditure.

Atlas Obscura plans to launch Obscura Society, a WebXR-based lounge offering users 3D avatars for voice chats, portals to other VR apps, and more, in early 2026 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/847182/atlas-obscura-society-3d-virtual-…

How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web
The Obscura Society will be a virtual lounge that Atlas Obscura community members can visit to hang out with the help of 3D avatars, have voice chats, and explore places from the site’s massive catalog together.

Sources: Western Digital plans to raise $3.09B by selling a Sandisk stake at $535-$555/share, a 9.4% discount to Tuesday's close; the offering is oversubscribed (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/ro…

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3732a646-da35-4437-bfde-7f9efc2725ff…

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

Amagi slides in India debut, as cloud TV software firm tests investor appetite | TechCrunch
Amagi shares debuted at a 12% discount, offering an early read on investor demand for a rare type of tech listing in India.

TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-launches-a-new-micro-drama-ap…

TikTok has quietly launched a new micro drama app called PineDrama as the category picks up steam in the US
TikTok rolled out a new app, PineDrama, dedicated to micro dramas as it looks to break into a fast-growing category.

Nvidia launches a native GeForce Now app on select Amazon Fire TV sticks, offering up to 1080p and 60 fps gaming; Fire TV users previously had to sideload it (Kris Holt/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nvidias-geforce-now-app-lan…

NVIDIA's GeForce Now app lands on Amazon Fire TV sticks
Streaming quality tops out at 1080p and 60 fps, however.

China's market regulator says it is investigating Trip.com, the country's largest online travel agency, over alleged antitrust conduct, without offering details (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…