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Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…

Japan's Renesas to sell timing solution segment to US-based SiTime for $3bn
Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025

Emdash, CloudFlare's "spiritual successor to WordPress" has been released.
Some of my findings
* Install/onboarding for non-technical users is simply not present (They will need hosting with Node.JS or deploy on CF.
* No ability to install plugins via ACP (Has to be through a config file)
* No theming options? (Might just be the 'playground' that it might not be on)
* Basic WYSIWYG editor
To me, it is like the old versions of

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.

Bettors on the prediction platform #Polymarket made a killing with suspiciously timed wagers that the United States would attack Iran by February 28
-- the day Donald Trump announced a bombing campaign against the Middle East nation.
Bloomberg reported that six accounts on Polymarket
-- all newly created this month
-- “made around $1 million in profit” by betting on the timing of th…

'Insane This Is Legal': Bettors Make Huge Profits From Suspiciously Timed Wagers on Iran War | Common Dreams
"Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year."

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.

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

🔊 Volvo’s $3,200 Sound System Has Settings I’ve Never Seen, and They Make a Big Difference
https://www.thedrive.com/news/volvos-3200-sound-system-has-settings-ive-never-seen-and-they-make-a-big-difference

Volvo’s $3,200 Sound System Has Settings I’ve Never Seen, and They Make a Big Difference
You know what bass and treble sound like, but here's the science behind how "envelopment" and "intensity" tuning in car stereos.

I was horrified to read Avaaz's email about the 2 Sudanese sentenced to death by stoning. Unlike the war, this is an issue where public pressure might help - Please sign the petition at opposing this brutality at https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stoning_in_sudan_loc/…

Two mothers could be stoned to death.
Sham trials. Coerced confessions. And a sentence of stoning! One million of us spoke up to help overturn a similar case – sign now to do it again.

I was horrified to read Avaaz's email about the 2 Sudanese sentenced to death by stoning. Unlike the war, this is an issue where public pressure might help - Please sign the petition at opposing this brutality at https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stoning_in_sudan_loc/…

Two mothers could be stoned to death.
Sham trials. Coerced confessions. And a sentence of stoning! One million of us spoke up to help overturn a similar case – sign now to do it again.

Sources: Saronic, which is building autonomous warships, is raising up to $1.5B at a ~$7.5B pre-money valuation; Saronic was last valued at $3.4B a year ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/autonomous-warship-s…

Autonomous Warship Startup Saronic Raising at $7.5 Billion Valuation
Saronic, a startup that builds autonomous warships, is raising as much as $1.5 billion in a financing that would value the company at about $7.5 billion, before including the investment, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Kleiner Perkins, the storied venture capital firm that ...

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans
- facial recognition through the glasses' camera.
You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good
because civil society groups are busy with politics
and won't cause problems.

Lukasz Olejnik (@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social)
First they'll give it to blind people, because who's going to attack technology for the blind, or people with hearing problems (like me)? I admit that! Privacy risk review procedures have been loosened. 15, 10, 5 years ago this would have been a major controversy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html