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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-01-27.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ Uber pivots from robotaxis to data farming with 'AV Labs'
▸ Apple finally launches AirTag 2 (now with actual volume)
▸ Meta wants you to pay to see who isn't following you back
Five years later, Apple finally updated the ultimate couch-cushion diver. The new chip boosts range significantly, and the speaker is finally loud enough to hear over your own panic.
The El Segundo startup just bagged a massive round and a Space Force contract. Apparently, making space data accessible is lucrative business when the government is your client.
Roland finally caved and built the analog drum machine everyone actually wanted. It’s messy, it’s loud, and it’s going to be on every techno track released in 2026.
You can now bully Google's AI into making your vacation slideshows exactly how you want them. Just type a prompt, and it stitches your memories together—hopefully without hallucinating a beach that wasn't there.
Former Michigan Chief Justice Bridget McCormack is working on AI arbitration, and it's exactly as dystopian/efficient as it sounds. The goal is to have AI review complaints and evidence, potentially clearing backlogs but raising massive questions about 'human' judgment.
Staffers are sounding the alarm after the Department of Transportation started using Google's Gemini to draft safety rules. Because nothing says 'public safety' like letting a chatbot hallucinate federal regulations.
In a rare moment of transparency, OpenAI released technical details on the agent loop powering their coding tools. It's a fascinating look at how the sausage is made, or rather, how the spaghetti code is generated.
GitHub is pushing Copilot deeper into the terminal, allowing for complex, multi-step agentic workflows. Now you can break production from the command line with even greater efficiency.
A developer decided standard Git wasn't painful enough and built their own version from scratch. A great read for anyone interested in the guts of version control or masochism.
An insightful look at why C/C++ package management remains a solved problem that nobody actually solved correctly. If you've ever fought with CMake, this will trigger you.
Instagram and Facebook are testing premium subscriptions that let you see who *doesn't* follow you back. Finally, a feature for the petty tyrant in all of us.
Uber launched 'AV Labs' to gather data for partners instead of building their own cars. They realized the money is in the map, not the metal.