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Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026

Fri, 2026-01-09 06:54
Nobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud

Opinion Another Consumer Electronics Show has rolled through Las Vegas, and this year vendors scrawled “AI-enabled” on all the kit they hope will find its way into your home – while airbrushing away its immaturity and downsides.…

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Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response

Fri, 2026-01-09 05:28
Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too

The authors of a hypothetical manual containing procedures repressive governments can use to stay in power despite restive populations would surely devote its first chapter to turning off the internet, an action the government of Iran appears to have taken in the last 24 hours.…

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China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

Fri, 2026-01-09 03:48
Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card

Chinese authorities have signalled they’ll likely probe Meta’s planned acquisition of made-in-China AI platform Manus.…

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Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

Fri, 2026-01-09 01:03
Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails

Machine learning models, particularly commercial ones, generally do not list the data developers used to train them. Yet what models contain and whether that material can be elicited with a particular prompt remain matters of financial and legal consequence, not to mention ethics and privacy.…

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Snowflake to buy Observe to mitigate customer downtime, as it reckons with its own

Fri, 2026-01-09 00:57
Resets 'Days Since Last Outage' counter to zero, aspires to do the same for everyone, forever

Analytics outfit Snowflake is buying telemetry data platform Observe to help its customers discover and mitigate IT issues before they cause downtime. It announced the deal on the same day its own services experienced a “major outage.”…

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While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4

Thu, 2026-01-08 23:56
Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away

While end customers grapple with crushing memory prices, we imagine Samsung execs are breaking out the Champagne. This week the memory titan forecast fourth-quarter operating profit would roughly triple as the South Korean electronics cabal rides the AI wave into the New Year.…

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