January 2026 Archive
2941.
C# wins Tiobe Programming Language of the Year honors for 2025 (infoworld.com)
2942.
Face masks 'inadequate' and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised (theguardian.com)
2943.
Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot (bleepingcomputer.com)
2944.
India's surveillance state should alarm every democracy (washingtonpost.com)
2945.
Creating a Terminal Emulator from Scratch (adolfoeloy.com)
2946.
India's surveillance state and the future of democracy (washingtonpost.com)
2947.
UK's Ofcom investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes (bbc.com)
2948.
Deft: A new replacement for Clojure objects using plain maps (github.com)
2949.
Germany Considers Broader Legal Authority; Internet Surveillance, State Hacking (reclaimthenet.org)
2950.
Pentagon embraces Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry (pbs.org)
2951.
Device that may be tied to "Havana Syndrome" obtained by U.S. government (cbsnews.com)
2952.
Trump administration halts immigrant visa processing from 75 countries (theguardian.com)
2953.
Domharvest: Semantic web scraping that survives DOM changes" (github.com)
2954.
Show HN: Claude Code Scheduler (github.com)
2955.
British redcoat's lost memoir reveals harsh realities of life as a disabled vet (phys.org)
2956.
X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool (theguardian.com)
2957.
RFK, Jr., shifts focus to questioning whether cell phones are safe (scientificamerican.com)
2958.
New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft (tomshardware.com)
2959.
Kling Motion Control AI (motion-control.io)
2960.
The Ridiculous Engineering of the Most Important Machine [video] (youtube.com)
2961.
Nerd – An intermediate language for machines, not humans (github.com)
2962.
Rectal Oxygenation Could Save Your Life (hackaday.com)
2963.
The cultural works becoming public domain in 2026, from Betty Boop to Nancy Drew (npr.org)
2964.
Seven students unmasked Russia's 'drone motherships' (ioplus.nl)
2965.
Experimental Nvidia Driver (Turing+) for Haiku OS (discuss.haiku-os.org)
2966.
The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation (pcloadletter.dev)
2967.
You Have Only X Years to Escape Permanent Moon Ownership (astralcodexten.com)
2968.
Security breaks during partial failures – design notes from distributed systems
2969.
Chinese Cargo Ship Converted to Launch Advanced Combat Drones Emerges (twz.com)
2970.
A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup (nytimes.com)