January 2026

Co-founder of $12B AI startup fired after boss learns about office romance: report 2026-01-21 at 19:08 By Ariel Zilber Barret Zoph, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Thinking Machines Lab, was dismissed last Wednesday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

ESA puts ExoMars lander through its paces with eye on 2028 launch 2026-01-21 at 19:08 By Richard Speed After Russia drama and NASA’s on-again-off-again romance, rover shows it still has legs… four of them The European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled a full-scale structural mock-up of the landing platform for its long-delayed ExoMars Rosalind Franklin

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities 2026-01-21 at 19:08 By Dan Robinson AI darling on neighborly charm offensive amid datacenter backlash OpenAI wants every Stargate datacenter campus to come with its own community plan reflecting “local concerns,” including a commitment not to cause a hike in electricity prices, minimizing water

Two Unique DHS Cyber Incidents Exposed 1M People’s Data 2026-01-21 at 19:08 By Within two weeks of each other, two separate states have announced data security incidents. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman explode in ugly online fight over whose tech killed more people 2026-01-21 at 18:32 By Zain Khan OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired back at Elon Musk on Tuesday after Musk posted on X warning people not to use ChatGPT, linking it to nine suicide deaths. This article is an

Ryanair CEO trolls Elon Musk, offering ‘big idiot’ sale as Starlink feud rages on 2026-01-21 at 18:22 By Associated Press Michael O’Leary who’s known for trolling critics dismissed Musk’s idea of buying the budget airline. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Former Alameda CEO to be released from US custody after 440 days 2026-01-21 at 18:08 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Scheduled for release from a halfway house on Wednesday, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison will have served 440 days in federal custody. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Zoom and GitLab Release Security Updates Fixing RCE, DoS, and 2FA Bypass Flaws 2026-01-21 at 18:08 By Zoom and GitLab have released security updates to resolve a number of security vulnerabilities that could result in denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The most severe of the lot is a critical security flaw impacting Zoom Node

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won’t need immigration 2026-01-21 at 17:45 By Lindsay Clark Alex Karp can sniff out a hot potato topic, but what comes next in the act? Opinion  Palantir CEO Alex Karp has an inimitable aptitude for sniffing out the politically sensitive topic about which, by his own admission,

Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data 2026-01-21 at 17:45 By Connor Jones Have I Been Pwned reckons 72.7M customer accounts affected, sportswear firm remains silent Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) says 72.7 million accounts registered with Under Armour were affected by an alleged ransomware attack in November.… This

Bitcoin eyes $90K as Donald Trump sees crypto bill signing ‘very soon’ 2026-01-21 at 17:25 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin joined stocks in a relief bounce as US President Donald Trump hinted at new legislation “very soon” and a doubling of the Dow Jones. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

Crypto’s next battle is privacy, but regulators face chicken-egg dilemma 2026-01-21 at 17:25 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Crypto’s move into banks and state-backed systems is accelerating a clash between financial privacy and public ledger design, said Aleo’s Yaya Fanusie. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Argentine exchange Ripio bets on peso stablecoins amid cautious 2026 outlook 2026-01-21 at 16:09 By Cointelegraph by Christina Comben One of Argentina’s longest‑running exchanges, Ripio, is betting on local currency stablecoins and tokenized bonds to drive a decade‑long boom in tokenized money across Latin America. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original