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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-01-25.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ Microsoft hands over BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI • Gmail's spam filters take a weekend break • Poland's energy grid survives a massive 'wiper' malware attack
In a move that's raising eyebrows (and blood pressure), Microsoft complied with an FBI warrant to hand over BitLocker encryption keys for customer data. If your recovery key is in the cloud, it's apparently fair game.
If your inbox looks like a digital landfill today, you're not alone—Gmail's spam filters and categorization are currently broken. Promotional emails are bypassing the 'Promotions' tab and partying directly in your primary inbox.
The SEC has officially dropped its lawsuit against the Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange, Gemini. It seems the regulators decided they had bigger fish to fry, or maybe they just got tired of seeing double.
Tech CEOs spent the weekend at the World Economic Forum boasting and bickering about AI. The main topic? Whether anyone is actually making money yet, or if we're all just burning cash to keep the servers warm.
The Microsoft/FBI news highlights a critical security nuance: if you use default BitLocker settings, your recovery key is backed up to your Microsoft account. This means Microsoft holds the keys to your kingdom and can be legally compelled to share them. True privacy requires local-only key management.
Chemists at Rice University have discovered that Thomas Edison may have accidentally created graphene in 1879 while testing carbon filaments for lightbulbs. He was trying to banish darkness, but he inadvertently synthesized the 'material of the future' 125 years ahead of schedule.
A new malware strain targeted Poland's energy grid on the anniversary of the Ukraine attacks. Unlike ransomware, this was a 'wiper' designed purely for destruction with no financial motive. It failed to cut the power, but the intent signals a dangerous escalation in infrastructure attacks.
A new tool bringing proper tiling window management to native macOS apps. It adds a 'split' concept that feels like it should have been there all along, without the overhead of Electron-based window managers.
A TUI (Terminal User Interface) for managing XDG default applications. Because manually editing mimeapps.list is a special kind of torture that nobody should have to endure in 2026.
A robust Ruby gem for parsing Accept-Language headers, fully compliant with RFC 7231. It's the kind of unsexy, foundational plumbing that keeps the localized web from falling apart.
A 14-year-old forum thread about the specific tablet prop used by Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park has resurfaced. The internet's ability to obsess over prop details from 1993 remains undefeated.
'The Greatest Generation', a podcast about re-watching Star Trek, just turned 10. Proof that you can build a career out of loving Spock and making fart jokes.