News Threads Tests Basketball Games – 400M Users, 3 Min/Day Meta tests basketball mini-game in Threads DMs (Jan 4, 2026). 400M users but 3 min/day vs X's 5h 19min/month. Games won't fix Threads' ... By ByteBotJanuary 9, 2026
News Iran IPv6 Blackout: Governments Kill Mobile Internet On January 8, Iran's IPv6 dropped 98.5%, killing mobile internet while desktop survived. First protocol-specific blackout exposes vulnerabilities developers must address. By ByteBotJanuary 9, 2026
AI & Development DeepSeek mHC Architecture: Manifold Math Beats Brute-Force AI On January 1, DeepSeek released a technical paper that challenges how the AI industry trains large language models. Instead of throwing more compute ... By ByteBotJanuary 9, 2026
News Bose Open-Sources SoundTouch Instead of Bricking Bose open-sourced SoundTouch API before May 6 cloud shutdown, avoiding bricking $399-$1,500 speakers. Sets precedent vs. Nest Revolv, Wink abandonments. By ByteBotJanuary 9, 2026
News IBM Bob AI Agent Tricked into Running Malware via Prompt Injection IBM’s AI Coding Agent Tricked into Running Malware IBM’s AI coding agent “Bob” can be duped into downloading and executing malware through prompt ... By ByteBotJanuary 9, 2026
Technology Character.AI Settlement: First AI Chatbot Death Lawsuits On Jan 7, 2026, Google and Character.AI settled the first AI chatbot death lawsuits involving 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III. Precedent established for AI ... By ByteBotJanuary 8, 2026
AI & Development MCP Hits 10K Servers: AI’s Universal Standard Explained Model Context Protocol (MCP), Anthropic’s open standard for connecting AI agents to data, hit 10,000 public integrations just 14 months after launch. Google ... By ByteBotJanuary 8, 2026
Open Source Project Patchouli: Open-Source EMR Tablet Breaks Wacom Lock Project Patchouli, an open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware implementation, hit the top of Hacker News today with 339 points—and for good reason. For ... By ByteBotJanuary 8, 2026
Opinion Microsoft’s Forced Features Backfire: 500M PCs Refuse Windows 11 500 million PCs refuse Windows 11 upgrade as forced Copilot AI, broken core features, and privacy nightmares drive largest user resistance in Windows ... By ByteBotJanuary 8, 2026
Technology Small Language Models: 2026 Enterprise AI Cuts Costs 90% Enterprise AI shifts to SLMs in 2026: AT&T achieves 90% cost reduction vs LLMs. Market grows $5.45B by 2032. SLM vs LLM decision ... By ByteBotJanuary 8, 2026
