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January 05, 2026

Daily Tech News 5 January 2026

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CES 2026 starts tomorrow, so - given the frivolities of time zones - I will likely be inundated with stories then. Today is the calm before the storm of products you can't afford, can't buy, or can't avoid.

What to expect: AI slop, health-related AI slop, enterprise AI slop, energy AI slop, vehicle AI slop, and robots. (CES)

Tell Skynet it's late.

Tech News

Blu-Ray discs are twenty years old today. (Tom's Hardware)

They were announced at CES in 2006.
Can a social app fix the "terrible devastation" of social media? (Tech Crunch)

What? No. Are you stupid or something?
An anti-aging injection has show promise regrowing knee cartilage and preventing arthritis. (SciTech Daily)

In mice. Little cheese fiends are gonna outlive all of us.
Six bugs collide: How six individually harmless bugs led to a remote code execution vulnerability on a security device. (Mehmet Ince)

Might as well be titled The autistic shall inherit the Earth. No disrespect. Even I'm impressed.
How Microsoft is betting on driving away all its customers. (GeekWire)

They are utterly convinced this is a winning move.

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