10 best AI tools for research to enhance efficiency - Techpoint
4 Apple TV AI additions I can't wait to see - Pocket Lint
50% tariff hike: Nigerias labour union declares nationwide protest - Techpoint
After DeepSeek Shock, Alibaba Unveils Rival AI Model That Uses Less Computing Power - Slashdot
AI-Assisted Works Can Get Copyright With Enough Human Creativity, Says US Copyright Office - Slashdot
Alphabet's Waymo To Test Its Autonomous Driving Technology In Over 10 New Cities - Slashdot
Atari Limited-Edition Asteroids Watches Sell Out Instantly For 45th Anniversary - Slashdot
Bayer and Pula Foundation partner to insure 10 million smallholder farmers by 2030 - Innovation Village
Beyond: Two Souls is becoming a TV show with help from star Elliot Page - Engadget
CBN Strikes Back: New Policy Holds Banks Accountable For Fraudulent Transactions - Innovation Village
Climate change ignited LA's wildfire risk ' these startups want to extinguish it - Techcrunch
Climate change increased the odds of Los Angeles' devastating fires, researchers say - Engadget
CreditChek collaborates with CredPal to enhance credit accessibility throughout Africa - Innovation Village
Customer feedback responsible for our service expansion to Lagos ' Delta Airlines - Tribune
DeepSeek might have a trademark problem in the US - Techcrunch
Democrat Teams Up With Movie Industry To Propose Website-Blocking Law - Slashdot
Detailed Instruction on How to Install Melbet on Android - Daily Times
Elon Musk claims Tesla will launch a self-driving service in Austin in June - Techcrunch
Elon Musk says Tesla will launch a robotaxi service in Austin this June - Engadget
Elon Musk Tells Friends He's Sleeping at the DOGE Offices in DC - Wired
Employer.com founder Jesse Tinsley says his US investor group vying to buy TikTok has secured $20B+ and recruited the CEOs of Roblox and Anchorage as investors (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data - Wired
FAAN GM safety services bows out - Tribune
Galaxy S25 Ultra's Now Brief has glaring issues but holds potential - Pocket Lint
Garmin says it has fixed the blue triangle boot error that was bricking some devices - Engadget
Gemini can now do more complex data analysis in Google Sheets - Engadget
Google's Pixel 9a could cost more than expected - Pocket Lint
Hackers are hijacking WordPress sites to push Windows and Mac malware - Techcrunch
Has Samsung dropped the ball by pushing back One UI 7' Kind of, but I understand the delay - Pocket Lint
IATA's full 2024 data shows African carriers record 8.5% growth - Tribune
IBM reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.6B, vs. $17.5B est., bookings for AI consulting and software crossed $5B, up from $3B in Q3; IBM jumps 8%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Ifeonu Nkeiruka Esther inducted as the 190th Global Tech Hero - Daily Times
Intel 'Did Not Know How To Be a Foundry,' Tim Cook Told TSMC Chief - Slashdot
Joe Lonsdale's 8VC seeking $1B for new fund - Techcrunch
Leaving X can be a tricky decision for brands - BBC
Lemfi completes acquisition of Irish currency exchange Bureau Buttercrane; begins European march - Techcabal
LinkedIn passes $2B in premium revenue in 12 months, with overall revenue up 9% on the year - Techcrunch
Localising tech platforms: Unlocking user engagement in Nigeria through cultural adaptation - Daily Times
M-KOPA wins trademark case against former agent imitating its name and logo - Techcabal
Mark Zuckerberg says spending heavily on AI infrastructure is a "strategic advantage" and vows Meta will invest "hundreds of billions" in AI over the long term (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 320M MAUs, up from 275M in November 2024, and is adding more than 1M daily signups (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle a 2021 lawsuit that Trump brought against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after it suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6 riot (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $48.4B, net income up 49% YoY to $20.8B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.35B on average for December 2024 (Meta) - Techmeme
Meta says end of fact-checking hasn't impacted ad spend - Techcrunch
Meta will pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump over his 2021 Facebook suspension - Engadget
Meta's Reality Labs posts Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $1.1B, vs. $1.1B est., and a $4.97B operating loss, vs. $5.4B est.; Reality Labs has lost $60B+ since 2020 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) - Techmeme
Mice With Two Dads Have Been Created Using CRISPR - Slashdot
Microsoft adds DeepSeek's R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and plans to make a distilled, smaller version of R1 available to run locally on Copilot+ PCs soon (Tom Warren/The Verge) - Techmeme
Microsoft and OpenAI Investigate Potential Data Breach by Chinese AI Firm, DeepSeek - Innovation Village
Microsoft brings a DeepSeek model to its cloud - Techcrunch
Microsoft is bringing improved iPhone integration to Windows 11 in an unexpected way - Pocket Lint
Microsoft Makes DeepSeek's R1 Model Available On Azure AI and GitHub - Slashdot
Microsoft Q2: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 4% YoY, gaming revenue down 7%, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 2% (Jay Peters/The Verge) - Techmeme
Microsoft reports Q2 LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY, and Satya Nadella says that LinkedIn passed a record $2B in Premium subscriptions revenue in the last 12 months (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Microsoft says Q2 capital expenditures hit $22.6B, vs. $20.95B estimated, and forecasts Q3 Azure growth between 31% and 32%, vs. 33% expected (Reuters) - Techmeme
Mixed reactions trail appointment of Ganduje as FAAN board chairman - Tribune
MoviePass might pivot to crypto - Techcrunch
MTN 5G, and ipNX are Nigeria's internet speed kings ' Ookla's H2 2024 report - Techcabal
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission teases new insights on how life began - Engadget
12 Best USB Microphones (2025): USB-C, USB-A, Wireless, and Mic Accessories - Wired
3 Best Smart Glasses of 2025, Tested and Reviewed - Wired
5 settings I change on a new Android phone right away - Pocket Lint
50% tariff hike: Telecom subscribers head to court today - Technext
50% telecom tariff: NCC mandates telcos to simplify charges for easy understanding - Vanguard
9 Best Juicers (2025): Centrifugal, Slow, Masticating - Wired
A look at Huawei's HarmonyOS Next, a China-only OS decoupled from Android that is still missing many third-party apps, despite supporting some key ones in China (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A look at MrDeepFakes, a site with obscure ownership that hosts non-consensual deepfake porn, has close to 650K members, and gets millions of visits per month (bellingcat) - Techmeme
A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin - The Economist
A US federal judge denied a motion by Apple to intervene as a defendant in the remedy trial of the DOJ vs. Google case, saying Apple's motion was untimely (Ryan Knappenberger/Courthouse News ...) - Techmeme
Africa records high rate of national ID, drivers license fraud in 2024 amid surge in AI-driven incidents - Techpoint
AI in Cybersecurity: What's Effective and What's Not ' Insights from 200 Experts - Hackers News
Airtel Money eats into M-PESA's dominance in Kenya, doubling market share to 7.6% - Techcabal
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model which the company claims "outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B" (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) - Techmeme
Alibaba releases updated AI model that 'surpasses DeepSeek - Technext
Ambi Robotics built a clever solution to automate pallet packing - Techcrunch
Ampere: users spent $465M on Microsoft games in December, making it the biggest publisher, ahead of EA's $366M; Call of Duty HQ had 38M MAUs in November 2024 (Christopher Dring/Video Games Chronicle) - Techmeme
An ex-OpenAI safety researcher says he's "terrified" by AI development's pace and that labs racing to AGI can cut corners on alignment, pushing all to speed up (Dan Milmo/The Guardian) - Techmeme
Anthropic's CEO says DeepSeek shows US export rules are working - Techcrunch
Appfigures: ChatGPT's app has grossed $529M since its May 2023 release, around 4x the second-highest earner, as AI app spending grew ~4x YoY to $1.4B in 2024 (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Apple Chips Can Be Hacked To Leak Secrets From Gmail, ICloud, and More - Slashdot
Apple enables support for T-Mobile and Starlink satellite network on the iPhone - Engadget
Apple Shows How To Update AirPods with Detailed Steps - TechCity
Applications now open for the latest Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) - Innovation Village
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says cheaper AI "could mean more applications" and "more demand over time", and "cost and energy" are the big issues to address (Ryan Browne/CNBC) - Techmeme
ASML reports Q4 net profit of 2.69B on 9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to 7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of 30B to 35B, up from 28.3B in 2024 (Ryan Browne/CNBC) - Techmeme
Automattic and others back Openvibe, an app that's unifying the open social web - Techcrunch
Ayoba Partners with TikTok: A New Era of Digital Entertainment in Africa - Innovation Village
Be careful with DeepSeek, Australia says - so is it safe to use - BBC
Block introduces an on-device, open-source AI agent called Goose, which allows developers to choose their preferred LLM to automate engineering tasks (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET) - Techmeme
Bookshop.org challenges Amazon with new e-book platform - Techcrunch
Boom Supersonic XB-1 Breaks Sound Barrier During Historic Test Flight - Slashdot
Broadcom Warns of High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer - Hackers News
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone Season 2: What to Expect - Innovation Village
Carta data shows that 966 US-based startups shut down in 2024, compared to 769 in 2023, with enterprise SaaS startups accounting for 32% of the closures (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
ChatGPT's mobile users are 85% male, report says - Techcrunch
China's DeepSeek AI hit by information request from Italy's data protection watchdog - Engadget
Chinese and Iranian Hackers Are Using US AI Products To Bolster Cyberattacks - Slashdot
Clutch grabs $20M to build out its non-human security ID platform - Techcrunch
Comcast Is Rolling Out 'Ultra-Low Lag' Tech That Could Fix the Internet - Slashdot
Comcast starts rolling out its "pioneering new, ultra-low lag connectivity experience" to select US cities, using the L4S standard to significantly cut latency (Jay Peters/The Verge) - Techmeme
Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection - Engadget
Copyright Office Offers Assurances on AI Filmmaking Tools - Slashdot
Could supersonic air travel make a comeback - The Economist
Critical Cacti Security Flaw (CVE-2025-22604) Enables Remote Code Execution - Hackers News
Crypto exchange Crypto.com to delist Tether's USDT, 9 others in Europe by Jan. 31 - Technext
Crypto risk modeling firm Gauntlet estimates the $TRUMP memecoin has generated at least $11.4M in fees for entities linked to President Trump since its launch (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
CVS Might Let You Open Locked Shelves With Your Phone - Slashdot
CVS tries to juice app signups with cabinet unlocking feature - Engadget
David Sacks claims there's 'substantial evidence' that DeepSeek used OpenAI's models to train its own - Techcrunch
David Sacks says there's "substantial evidence" that DeepSeek "distilled knowledge out of OpenAI models and I don't think OpenAI is very happy about this" (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
DeepSeek Chatbot Tops Apple Store Charts - TechCity
DeepSeek makes US export controls to China even more important, and DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough but an expected point on a cost reduction curve (Dario Amodei) - Techmeme
DeepSeek reaches No. 1 on US Play Store - Techcrunch
DeepSeek triggered a wild, baseless rally for some Chinese stocks - Techcrunch
DeepSeek vs ChatGPT - how do they compare - BBC
DeepSeek's AI avoids answering 85% of prompts on 'sensitive topics' related to China - Techcrunch
DeepSeek's app becomes unavailable on Apple's and Google's app stores in Italy - Techcrunch
DeepSeek's app is unavailable on Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store in Italy, after its data protection regulator says it questioned DeepSeek (Stefano Bernabei/Reuters) - Techmeme