Jasmine Sun / @jasmine's substack:
Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great — are your problems software-shaped? — ∙ Paid — If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they'll probably say “Cool!
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue — European regulators begin investigation into creation and spread of sexualised images of women and children
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24+ US projects were blocked in January alone — Companies set to increase advertising spending this year to defuse growing public opposition to vast projects
Dong Cao / Bloomberg:
Chinese autonomous trucking company DeepWay raised ~$173M ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, filed in November 2025; DeepWay reported ~$215M in H1 2025 revenue — DeepWay Technology Co., a Chinese company that makes technology for heavy-duty trucking, has raised about 1.2 billion yuan …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Quantum computing company IonQ acquires US chipmaker SkyWater for ~$1.8B, paying $35/share, in IonQ's biggest deal yet; SkyWater will operate as a subsidiary — IonQ works with the U.S. government and has been on a deal spree — Quantum-computing company IonQ struck a deal …
Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure — SoftBank Group Corp. has halted talks about an acquisition of US data center operator Switch Inc., a setback …
Microsoft dropped a weekend treat for administrators with yet another out-of-band update to deal with Outlook freezes and broken cloud storage.…
Britain's Royal Navy is using Oracle Cloud edge infrastructure to operate AI-driven defenses on the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.…
A modder says a portable PS4 Slim can finally feel like something you’d actually use, not a fragile showpiece. After months of revisions, the latest version is presented as a stable handheld built for regular play. The heart of the project is a trimmed and modified PS4 Slim motherboard, cut down to shrink the system […]
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Samsung could finally retire 128GB base storage with the Galaxy S26. A new retail leak hints at higher defaults, uncertain pricing, and strategic shifts driven by memory constraints.
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A Lenovo listing leak points to a Legion 7 tied to NVIDIA's N1X label, hinting a Windows on ARM gaming laptop is coming. The next proof will be specs, drivers, and real-world benchmarks.
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We're two episodes in to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and it's almost tournament time.
The trailer above for episode 3 teases Dunk (Peter Claffey) and Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) in the stands watching two knights joust, while Dunk reflects on who his first opponent might be.
While you wait to find out, why not remind yourself of the Targaryen family tree?
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is now streaming on HBO Max, with new episodes Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
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