Substack hires former Google exec Mark Swierszcz as its head of partnerships in Canada, its third-largest market worldwide, as it expands beyond the US and UK (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search: #Barnard misjudged) -> Mistério de 130 Anos Resolvido - A Verdade Sobre a Estrela Fantasma de Barnard: https://spacetoday.com.br/misterio-de-130-anos-resolvido-a-verdade-sobre-a-estrela-fantasma-de-barnard/
Q&A with Elon Musk on launching 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/elon-musk-on-space-gpus-ai-optimus
Should electrical substation next to Super Bowl 60 worry Seahawks, Patriots? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7022685/2026/02/05/super-bowl-60-49ers-substation-theory/
What's with right-wingers gleefully hurting dogs?
https://bsky.app/profile/evanhurst.substack.com/post/3me62hgkkyc2u
Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025, found on February 3 and now patched; a threat actor leaked a database of ~697K records (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-back-story-behind-the-first-18