Voice AI has always had a small PR problem: it’s been marketed like the future, but behaved like a bad conference call. You say something. A server far away thinks about it. A synthetic voice replies after a pause long enough for you to question your life choices. If you interrupt, it keeps talking like…
Chewy Promo Codes in January 2026: What the Deals Say About the Tech Behind Modern Pet Commerce
Some people collect sneakers. Some people collect vintage synths. Americans, increasingly, collect subscription renewals for the beings in their homes who shed on everything and judge them silently from the couch. Which is why a humble promo code list—like WIRED’s recent “Chewy Promo Codes: $30 Off January 2026”—is more than bargain-hunting fuel. It’s a window…
The US Has Officially Left the WHO—and the Unpaid Bill Is the Least “Tech” Part of This Story
On January 22, 2026, the United States formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO). The headlines have focused on the money—because of course they have. According to reporting by Ars Technica, the US exit comes with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid obligations—specifically a reported $278 million in 2024–2025 assessed dues,…
Railway’s $100M Series B Is a Bet That “AI-Native” Cloud Won’t Look Like AWS (and That Developers Are Done Waiting)
On January 22, 2026, Railway announced a $100 million Series B that reads like a polite but unmistakable challenge to the hyperscalers: the era of “click here, wait two minutes, paste IAM policy, then wait again” is running out of cultural runway. The news was first reported by Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat, which is the…
Microsoft, IDC MarketScape, and the New Job Title Nobody Asked For: Unified AI Governance
On January 14, 2026, Microsoft published a post on the Microsoft Security Blog announcing it had been named a Leader in the 2025–2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms (Vendor Assessment #US53514825, December 2025). The post is credited to Microsoft Security (the blog’s byline rather than an individual author) and positions Microsoft’s approach…
HPE Alletra 5000/6000 and NimbleOS hit by remote privilege escalation (HPESBST04995 rev.1): what to patch, why it matters, and how to reduce blast radius
HPE has published a security bulletin, HPESBST04995 rev.1, warning of a remote privilege elevation issue affecting HPE Alletra 6000, HPE Alletra 5000, and HPE Nimble Storage arrays running NimbleOS. The short version: if your storage fleet is on the wrong side of a particular NimbleOS build number, you should treat this like a “drop what…
Amazon EC2 G7e Launch: What NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs Mean for Generative AI Inference (and Why Your 70B Model Just Smiled)
Amazon has a new GPU instance family, and—yes—your inference bill and your graphics pipeline both want to talk about it. On January 20, 2026, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7e instances, accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU. AWS positions G7e as a sweet spot: cost-effective performance for…
A 2025 Timeline of the U.S. Semiconductor Market: Tariffs, Export Controls, Intel’s 18A Pivot, and Nvidia’s China Whiplash
2025 was the year the U.S. semiconductor market stopped pretending it was “just” an industry and fully embraced its new role as a geopolitical sport, an AI arms race, and a domestic jobs program rolled into one extremely expensive wafer. TechCrunch’s “A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025” (published January 21, 2026) by…
Cloudflare’s ACME Path Vulnerability: When Certificate Automation Accidentally Hit the WAF Off Switch
On January 19, 2026, Cloudflare published a short but important disclosure: a vulnerability in its ACME validation logic could, under certain conditions, disable some Web Application Firewall (WAF) features for requests aimed at the ACME HTTP-01 challenge path /.well-known/acme-challenge/*. The company says it has patched the issue and that customers do not need to take…
One Year Into Trump 2.0: How Big Tech Outmaneuvered MAGA Populists (and Why AI Was the Wedge)
When Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term on January 20, 2025, the photo-op of Silicon Valley royalty in the Capitol rotunda looked like the closing scene of a corporate hostage video. Mark Zuckerberg. Jeff Bezos. Sundar Pichai. Everyone standing close enough to be in the shot, far enough to deny they were friends.…