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TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years 2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises AI + ML16 Jan 2026 | 7
OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body AI + ML16 Jan 2026 | 7
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Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink Systems15 Jan 2026 |
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OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation Systems15 Jan 2026 | 4
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A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg Research15 Jan 2026 | 12
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Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication OSes15 Jan 2026 | 26
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US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums Security15 Jan 2026 | 37
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Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store. OSes15 Jan 2026 | 122
Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2 40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this? AI + ML15 Jan 2026 | 26
Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud Cyber-crime15 Jan 2026 | 4
Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine AI + ML15 Jan 2026 | 21
Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment Software15 Jan 2026 | 2
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