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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-01-28.md
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▸ Waabi secures $1B and an Uber partnership to put robotaxis back on the menu
▸ Google accidentally leaks 'Aluminium,' its plan to turn Android into a desktop OS
▸ ADL report ranks Grok dead last for safety while Claude takes the crown
Just when you thought the robotaxi hype train had derailed, Waabi raised a massive $1B Series C. The kicker? They're partnering with Uber to deploy AI-first autonomous vehicles, proving that Uber really, really doesn't want to pay human drivers forever.
In a classic 'oops' moment, Google accidentally revealed 'Aluminium,' a project that looks suspiciously like a proper desktop windowing mode for Android. It seems the dream of merging ChromeOS and Android is alive and well, just hiding in a bug report.
The Anti-Defamation League put major LLMs to the test, and xAI's Grok came in dead last for handling antisemitic content. On the flip side, Anthropic's Claude took the gold medal for safety, proving that being boringly safe has its perks.
A new open-source AI assistant called Moltbot is going viral on WhatsApp. It promises to be your personal Jarvis but requires terrifying levels of access to your files and accounts. Security researchers are screaming into the void, but users love a shiny new toy.
ByteDance has created a new 'US TikTok' entity to appease regulators, but is it actually independent? This deep dive looks at the corporate gymnastics involved in separating the US operations from their Chinese parent company without actually breaking the app.
Space is hard, but losing a massive satellite because it just... fell off? That's a new one. The H3 rocket launch failure is a masterclass in how minor engineering oversights can lead to very expensive fireworks displays.
Astronomers used AI to comb through decades of Hubble archives and found 1,400 'anomalous objects' that humans missed. It turns out the best way to discover new things in space is to let an algorithm look at the old pictures we already took.
Anders Hejlsberg, the architect behind C# and TypeScript, drops some wisdom on language design. Key takeaways: feedback loops matter more than features, and if you build it, they will break it in ways you never imagined.
Cloudflare built a Matrix homeserver that runs entirely on their serverless Workers platform with post-quantum cryptography. It's a flex on both edge computing capabilities and future-proofing encryption standards.
Google is rolling out new AI capabilities in Search that allow for more complex, multi-step queries. It's a move away from '10 blue links' and toward 'just do the thing for me,' which is great until it hallucinates your flight itinerary.
Scammers managed to spoof a legitimate Microsoft email address to send spam, making the 'is this phishing?' game significantly harder. If you can't trust `microsoft.com`, who can you trust?
Microsoft is making it easier to 'resume' Android apps on your PC. Because sometimes you just really need to finish that mobile game level on a 32-inch monitor with a mouse and keyboard.