TechCabal Daily ' The zenith of raises - Techcabal
2025 Will Likely Be Another Brutal Year of Failed Startups, Data Suggests - Slashdot
50% Off Home Chef Promo Code and Coupons - Wired
6 Kindle tips to up your e-reading game - Pocket Lint
A new iPhone SE 4 leak gives us our best look at the phone yet - Pocket Lint
A private start-up called Helion aims to have a working fusion reactor by 2028 - Engadget
A profile of DeepSeek creator Liang Wenfeng, a math geek who founded hedge fund High-Flyer in 2015 and had to apologize to investors about returns in 2021 (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Ad spend on African shopping apps soars by 80% amid growing eCommerce competition - Techpoint
AI enterprise service management startup Atomicwork raised a $25M Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Z47, a source says at a $150M valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) - Techmeme
AI Is Too Unpredictable To Behave According To Human Goals - Slashdot
AI SOC Analysts: Propelling SecOps into the future - Hackers News
Alibaba's Qwen team releases AI models that can control PCs and phones - Techcrunch
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen2.5-VL, a new series of AI models that can control PCs and phones, as well as perform a number of text and image analysis tasks (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Alice&Bob raises $104M, says quantum computers based on cat qubits will be ready by 2030 - Techcrunch
Amazon's Prime Air drone service is headed to this UK town - Techcrunch
An AI app is number one on the App Store -- and it isn't ChatGPT - Pocket Lint
Anthropic Builds RAG Directly Into Claude Models With New Citations API - Slashdot
Apple fixes zero-day flaw affecting all devices - Techcrunch
Apple Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day Affecting iPhones, Macs, and More - Hackers News
Apple restores Marvel Snap, published by ByteDance's Nuverse, to the US App Store, and removes the card game from its document listing banned ByteDance apps (Marko Zivkovic/AppleInsider) - Techmeme
Apple Sports adds the FA Cup and other UK soccer tournies - Engadget
Apple's Sports app now tells you where you can watch nationally broadcast games - The Verge
Are You Lonely' Adopt a New Family on Facebook Today - Wired
Atomic Scientists Adjust 'Doomsday Clock' Closer Than Ever To Midnight - Slashdot
Atomicwork gets backing from Khosla for its AI alternative to old-school IT software like ServiceNow - Techcrunch
Ayoba Super App Now Features TikTok Integration - Itnewsafrica
Blade' writer David S. Goyer debuts his latest sci-fi franchise on Incention, a new platform built on Story blockchain - Techcrunch
Bluesky adds a video tab to user profiles - Engadget
Bluesky introduces video tab to user profiles - Innovation Village
Bookshop Takes On Amazon With E-book Platform For Independent Stores - Slashdot
Bookshop.org is now selling ebooks - Engadget
Bookshop.org Now Sells Ebooks - Wired
Boom's XB-1 becomes first civil aircraft to go supersonic - Techcrunch
Boom's XB-1 jet breaks the sound barrier for the first time - Engadget
Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio says investor exuberance over AI has fuelled a "bubble" in US stocks that resembles the build-up to the dotcom bust in 1998-1999 (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Business travel startup TravelPerk raised a $200M Series E at a $2.7B valuation and buys expense management startup Yokoy, a source says for a "nine-figure" sum (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Canon Promo Codes and Coupons: Up to $500 Off - Wired
CBN releases Nigeria FX code to mitigate financial risks - Vanguard
China's CGST Beats Elon Musk's Starlink with 6G Laser Tech - Innovation Village
China's DeepSeek AI shakes industry and dents America's swagger - BBC
Chinese state media and social media viewed DeepSeek's success as a shot in the arm for a discouraged tech industry and a public suffering a stagnating economy (Li Yuan/New York Times) - Techmeme
Cloud Services Market Is 'Not Working,' Says UK Regulator - Slashdot
Coca-Cola recall products across Europe over chlorate content - Vanguard
Cornell's robot jellyfish and worm are powered by a hydraulic fluid battery - Techcrunch
Cross-border payments: Building products and services with excellent customer experience - Techcabal
Crypto market, tech leaders suffered $1.02 trillion loss amidst Deepseek's rise - Technext
Dangerous Temperatures Could Kill 50% More Europeans By 2100, Study Finds - Slashdot
DeepSeek challenges the "bigger is better" narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups (Kevin Roose/New York Times) - Techmeme
DeepSeek claims its 'reasoning' model beats OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks - Techcrunch
DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store's top app - Techcrunch
DeepSeek Disrupts AI Industry, Triggering $600 Billion Market Cap Loss for NVIDIA - Innovation Village
DeepSeek Has Spent Over $500 Million on Nvidia Chips Despite Low-Cost AI Claims, SemiAnalysis Says - Slashdot
DeepSeek highlights some of China's key advantages: a deep pool of skilled software engineers, a vast domestic market, and government support via subsidies (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
DeepSeek Piles Pressure on AI Rivals With New Image Model Release - Slashdot
DeepSeek says it used Nvidia H800 chips, available in China until October 2023, to train R1, suggesting future models could be hampered by US export controls (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
DeepSeek shatters AI assumptions - Technext
DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: Hands On With DeepSeek's R1 Chatbot - Wired
DeepSeek's breakthroughs are a big win for app developers with more value accruing back into the app layer as the cost of intelligence continues to drop rapidly (Aaron Levie/@levie) - Techmeme
DeepSeek's New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors - Wired
THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [27 January] - Hackers News
13 Best Electric Kettles (2025), Tested and Reviewed - Wired
4 reasons my loyalty lies with the Kindle Paperwhite over the Kobo Clara - Pocket Lint
4 reasons Proton could be the answer to ditching Google Drive - Pocket Lint
5 Must-Know Steps for Privacy Protection - Itnewsafrica
5 useful things to do with your dusty MacBook Pro - Pocket Lint
8 Best Deals on Valentine's Day Gifts (2025) - Wired
A bear case for Nvidia: competition from hardware startups, inference-heavy "reasoning" models, DeepSeek's training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, more (Jeffrey Emanuel/YouTubeTranscript ...) - Techmeme
A Complete Guide to Fixing an Android Phone That Frequently Hangs - Innovation Village
A convincing dummy iPhone SE 4 suggests the return of the notch - Engadget
A look at China's booming crypto market, with Chinese traders using VPNs, overseas shell companies, and peer-to-peer networks to circumvent China's crackdown (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of 15K+ contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B on tech since 2020 (New York Times) - Techmeme
A New Bid for TikTok from Perplexity AI Would Give the US Government a 50% Stake - Slashdot
A profile of French health insurer Alan's CEO Jean Charles Samuelian-Werve, a Mistral board member who claims credit for securing most of Mistral's backers (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
AI startup DeepSeek pauses signups amid cyber incident - Techcrunch
AI Workforce Training: Google's Plan to Shape the Future - TechCity
An in-depth look at DeepSeek: DeepSeekMoE and DeepSeekMLA, cheap V3 training, the US chip ban, "distillation" from other models, Nvidia impact, AGI, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) - Techmeme
Anime Cons in Africa: A Growing Celebration of Geek Culture - Innovation Village
Another Undersea Cable Damaged in Baltic Sea. Criminal Sabotage Investigation Launched - Slashdot
Apple releases iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS 15.3, enabling Apple Intelligence by default on supported devices but disabling AI summaries for news apps (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - Techmeme
Apple's M4 iPad Pro is up to $200 off right now - Engadget
Are We Surrendering Too Much Personal Power to Smartphones and AI - Itnewsafrica
At Davos, AI leaders clashed over safety concerns and the $100B Stargate project; Demis Hassabis and Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei reiterated stark warnings (Stephen Morris/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Bad Week for Unoccupied Waymo Cars: One Hit in Fatal Collision, One Vandalized by Mob - Slashdot
Bento Africa faces allegations of not remitting collected taxes; CEO denies wrongdoing - Innovation Village
Bento Africa under investigation by LIRS and EFCC; CEO Okubanjo denies allegations - Techcabal
Best Meme Coin to Buy: DAWGZ Emerges as the Top Crypto for 2025, While Other Meme Coins Shine in a Booming Market - Techpoint
Betting data from Illinois, New Jersey, and Colorado shows how parlays are driving revenue growth for FanDuel, DraftKings, and other US sports betting companies (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Bill Gates Thanks Parents in New Memoir, Acknowledges 'Lucky Timing' and Possible Autism - Slashdot
Biometrics, Windmills, and VHS tapes: The Winners of 'Rest of World' International Tech Photo Contest - Slashdot
Bluesky adds video to user profiles - Techcrunch
Brazil's data protection authority ruled that Tools for Humanity, cofounded by Sam Altman, must stop offering compensation for iris scans in the country (Reuters) - Techmeme
Burkina Faso unveils its first fully indigenous electric vehicle - Innovation Village
Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
China's DeepSeek AI assistant becomes top free iPhone app as US tech stocks take a hit - Engadget
China's DeepSeek AI is hitting Nvidia where it hurts - The Verge
Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals - Wired
Cory Doctorow Asks: Can Interoperability End 'Enshittification' and Fix Social Media - Slashdot
Court filing: Indian digital news firms, including NDTV, Network18, and Hindustan Times, join a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, first filed by ANI in 2024 (Reuters) - Techmeme
Crunchyroll Winter 2025 Anime Season Lineup Announced! - Innovation Village
DeepSeek 'punctures' tech spending plans, and what analysts are saying - Techcrunch
DeepSeek could be an extinction-level event for venture capital firms that went all-in on foundational model companies; investors say they are not panicking (Dan Primack/Axios) - Techmeme
DeepSeek debuts a family of multimodal, MIT-licensed open-source models including Janus-Pro-7B, which it claims beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 in GenEval and DPG-Bench (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking - Techcrunch
DeepSeek Rattles Wall Street With Claims of Cheaper AI Breakthroughs - Slashdot
DeepSeek says it's temporarily limiting new user registrations "due to large-scale malicious attacks" on its services (Hayden Field/CNBC) - Techmeme
DeepSeek Says Service Degraded Due To 'Large-Scale Malicious Attack - Slashdot
DeepSeek shows the complete lack of lock-in that any of these chatbots have, and such a powerful model coming from China may cement "AGI" as a national project (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
DeepSeek's AI Assistant from China has become the top free iPhone app - Engadget
DeepSeek's iOS app is now #1 on the "Top Free Apps" chart in Apple's App Store in the US, just ahead of ChatGPT (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
DeepSeek's iOS app is now #1 on the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, ahead of ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the US' AI lead (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
DeepSeek's use of commodity, disconnected hardware and open-source design is enough of a shot at AI hyper scaling that it could be "the way things will go" (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi) - Techmeme
Do We Really Need The OWASP NHI Top 10 - Hackers News
Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It - Wired
Equity funding constitutes 58% of $1.03 bn invested in African fintech startups in 2024 - Technext
Fincart.io raises funding to support the e-commerce market in Africa and the Middle East - TechMoran
Fubo raises prices on all English-language plans - Engadget
Furaha Raises $10m to Expand Access to Purpose-Driven Financing in Africa - TechMoran
GamaCopy Mimics Gamaredon Tactics in Cyber Espionage Targeting Russian Entities - Hackers News