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A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)

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5 February 2026

A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services  —  Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble across …

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A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an "AI mathematician" it claims has solved at least four previously unsolved math problems (Will Knight/Wired)

Will Knight / Wired:
A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an “AI mathematician” it claims has solved at least four previously unsolved math problems  —  Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology's steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

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Fears that software companies are facing an AI-driven extinction event are exaggerated, but the belief that they might be facing one is damaging their stocks (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
Fears that software companies are facing an AI-driven extinction event are exaggerated, but the belief that they might be facing one is damaging their stocks  —  Fears that software companies are facing an extinction event are exaggerated, but other dangers are real

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Cybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire AllTrue, which develops specialized tools for AI trust, risk, and security management, for $125M in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
Cybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire AllTrue, which develops specialized tools for AI trust, risk, and security management, for $125M in cash  —  Cybersecurity company Varonis Systems said it would acquire artificial-intelligence specialist AllTrue, the latest in a series of deals …

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Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT (Nikkei Asia)

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Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT  —  TAIPEI — Leading PC makers HP, Dell, Acer and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers for the first time amid …

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TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan; sources say that is an upgrade from an original plan to produce 7nm chips by late 2027 (Bloomberg)

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TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan; sources say that is an upgrade from an original plan to produce 7nm chips by late 2027  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to make advanced 3-nanometer chips in Japan, stepping up its semiconductor manufacturing roadmap …

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Sony reports Q3 gaming and network services revenue down 4% YoY to $10.5B, profit up 19% YoY to ~$889M, and PlayStation 5 sales down 16% YoY to 8M units (Sam Nussey/Reuters)

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Sony reports Q3 gaming and network services revenue down 4% YoY to $10.5B, profit up 19% YoY to ~$889M, and PlayStation 5 sales down 16% YoY to 8M units  —  Japan's Sony (6758.T) on Thursday reported a 22% rise in third-quarter operating profit that trounced forecasts and lifted its full-year outlook …

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Sony reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$23.68B, vs. ~$23.53B est., operating profit up 22% to ~$3.28B, vs. ~$2.99B est., raises FY operating profit outlook 8% (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$23.68B, vs. ~$23.53B est., operating profit up 22% to ~$3.28B, vs. ~$2.99B est., raises FY operating profit outlook 8%  —  Sony on Thursday reported a rise in operating profit that beat expectations, despite foreign exchange volatility and higher memory costs.

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Researchers say TikTok's server outage in late January disrupted all post categories, not just political content as users claimed, based on limited public data (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

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Researchers say TikTok's server outage in late January disrupted all post categories, not just political content as users claimed, based on limited public data  —  As a consortium of investors led by Oracle's Larry Ellison took control of TikTok's U.S. business, users accused the app …

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Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics  —  An AI model developed by Google DeepMind is giving athletes like Maddie Mastro new insights into how their bodies move

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