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[BIZ] 15m

China Is Watching Australia ‘Very Closely’ on Darwin Port Issue

└─ Bloomberg

Beijing is “watching very closely” how Canberra handles the status of a port currently leased to a Chinese firm that the Labor government has pledged to return to local control, and will step in i...

[02]

[BIZ] 1h

Airbus, AstraZeneca and HSBC executives join UK's Starmer on high-stakes China trip

└─ CNBC

Executives from Airbus, AstraZeneca and HSBC are joining Prime Minister Keir Starmer on a rare China visit, highlighting the business focus of the trip amid strained global trade relations.

[03]

[TEC] 1h

What you should know about the owners of US TikTok

└─ TechCrunch

ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese pa...

[04]

[WLD] 1h

Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar attacked with 'unknown liquid' during town hall

└─ BBC News

Omar was uninjured and continued to speak at the event following the incident.

[05]

[WLD] 2h

Rep. Ilhan Omar rushed on stage and sprayed with liquid at town hall event

└─ NPR

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar was speaking at a town hall event when she was rushed by a man who sprayed a liquid at her via a syringe.

[06]

[BIZ] 2h

One year after DeepSeek, Chinese AI firms from Alibaba to Moonshot race to release new models

└─ CNBC

Chinese companies are releasing new AI models and striving to gain an edge in the AI application race as the country's biggest holiday of the year nears.

[07]

[BIZ] 2h

Asian Currencies Hit Six-Month High on Dollar Debasement Fears

└─ Bloomberg

Emerging Asian currencies reached the highest since July as the dollar debasement trade gathers pace, with President Donald Trump criticizing some regional currencies.

[08]

[WLD] 2h

Republicans criticise immigration force but steer clear of Trump attacks

└─ BBC News

Lawmakers are questioning the crackdown while anger grows over two citizens killed by federal agents.

[09]

[BIZ] 2h

Amazon inadvertently announces cloud unit layoffs in email to employees

└─ CNBC

Amazon sent a notice out to staffers in an apparent error acknowledging "organizational changes" at the company.

[10]

[WLD] 3h

Trump says government will 'de-escalate' in Minnesota following Pretti shooting

└─ BBC News

The killing of Alex Pretti over the weekend led MInnesota officials and locals to renew calls for Trump to end his immigration operation there.

[11]

[WLD] 3h

Internal review contradicts White House narrative of Pretti's death

└─ NPR

The preliminary assessment from Customs and Border Protection makes no mention of Alex Pretti attacking officers or threatening them with a weapon — as the administration first described the inciden...

[12]

[WLD] 4h

NTSB blames 'deep' systemic failures for deadly midair collision near Washington D.C.

└─ NPR

After a yearlong investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board did not find a single cause for the deadly collision near Washington, D.C., but blamed the crash on multiple systemic failures.

[13]

[TEC] 4h

Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot)

└─ TechCrunch

Personal AI assistant Moltbot —formerly Clawdbot — has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But there’s more you should know before jumping on the bandwagon.

[14]

[TEC] 5h

Fashion rental app By Rotation and Uber partner to help deliver ski clothing

└─ TechCrunch

By Rotation, one of the U.K.’s most popular peer-to-peer fashion rental platforms, is partnering with Uber to deliver ski clothes.

[15]

[BIZ] 5h

Oil Steady Near Four-Month High on Iran Risks and Weak Dollar

└─ Bloomberg

Oil held near a four-month high as traders monitored President Donald Trump’s renewed threats against Iran, while a weaker dollar boosted the appeal of commodities priced in the US currency.

[16]

[TEC] 5h

Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr.

└─ Ars Technica

Anti-vaccine Kennedy may be "enacting a self-fulfilling prophecy," expert says.

[17]

[TEC] 5h

TikTok users “absolutely justified” for fearing MAGA makeover, experts say

└─ Ars Technica

TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.

[18]

[SCI] 6h

NASA Testing Advances Space Nuclear Propulsion Capabilities

└─ NASA

Written by Daniel Boyette Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear prop...

[19]

[WLD] 6h

Bitter cold grips the eastern U.S. as storm deaths rise and power outages linger

└─ NPR

Three Texas siblings who died in an icy pond are among several dozen deaths in U.S. states gripped by frigid cold. A massive storm dumped deep snow across more than 1,300 miles from Arkansas to New En...

[20]

[TEC] 6h

There's a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address

└─ Ars Technica

Abusing Microsoft's reputation may make scam harder to spot.

[21]

[SCI] 6h

Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?

└─ NASA

The Discovery A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars. Key Facts Scientists conti...

[22]

[TEC] 7h

Anduril has invented a wild new drone-flying contest where jobs are the prize

└─ TechCrunch

This is a race series for software programmers and the brainchild of founder Palmer Luckey, he tells TechCrunch.

[23]

[SCI] 7h

NASA Science Flights Venture to Improve Severe Winter Weather Warnings

└─ NASA

A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissan...

[24]

[SCI] 7h

Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter

└─ NASA

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of dark matter, represented in blue. Brighter blue areas indicate a higher density of da...

[25]

[WLD] 7h

Who is Tom Homan, Trump's 'border tsar' deployed to Minneapolis?

└─ BBC News

The US border tsar has long been a ferocious defender of Donald Trump's immigration policies.

[26]

[TEC] 7h

Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video

└─ Ars Technica

Salazar v. Paramount hinges on video privacy law's definition of "consumer."

[27]

[TEC] 9h

The 50 Best Shows on HBO Max, WIRED’s Picks (February 2026)

└─ Wired

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Pitt, and Industry are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on HBO Max this month.

[28]

[BIZ] 9h

The Fed releases its latest interest rate decision Wednesday. Here's what to expect

└─ CNBC

This week's meeting offers little suspense and probably not much action, even as massive changes loom over the Fed's longer-term direction.

[29]

[TEC] 9h

Amazon Alexa+ Is Now Available to Everyone. Here’s How to Turn It Off (2026)

└─ Wired

Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn’t ask for it. Here’s how to change it back.

[30]

[TEC] 10h

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

└─ Hacker News

Article URL: https://amutable.com/about Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572 Points: 249 # Comments: 328 ...

[31]

[TEC] 10h

These Feature-Packed Earbuds Are Less Than $50

└─ Wired

Anker knocks almost half the cost off its already budget-friendly earbuds.

[32]

[TEC] 10h

U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office

└─ Hacker News

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784263 Points: 491 # Commen...

[33]

[TEC] 10h

The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun

└─ Wired

At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.

[34]

[TEC] 11h

Prism

└─ Hacker News

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783752 Points: 506 # Comments: 298 ...

[35]

[TEC] 11h

FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

└─ Hacker News

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/fbi-investigating-minnesota-signal-minneapolis-group-ice-patel-kash-rcna256041 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783254 Points: 6...

[36]

[CUL] 13h

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 27th

└─ New Yorker

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

[37]

[CUL] 18h

Why an Agnostic Animal-Rights Activist Went to Seminary

└─ New Yorker

Wayne Hsiung has gone to court and done jail time to improve the lives of animals. Now he’s going to church.

[38]

[CUL] 18h

TV Review: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Streaming on HBO

└─ New Yorker

There’s a lot of grime and grunting, but the show is saved by its two endearing leads.

[39]

[CUL] 18h

Why Shouldn’t We Let Demons Do Homework?

└─ New Yorker

Using a demon is not cheating. Cheating is pawning off somebody else’s work as your own. A demon is not “somebody.” A demon is a being of pure malice.

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[SCI] 20h

Scientists finally explain Earth’s strangest fossils

└─ Science Daily

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival i...