Follow Up

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/31/dell_ends_hybrid_work_policy/

Apple may walk back a major brand safety decision from 2023

https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/30/apple-may-walk-back-a-major-brand-safety-decision-from-2023/#more-988233 

https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/ 

Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump account suspension suit

https://www.theverge.com/news/602577/meta-trump-facebook-lawsuit-settlement 

White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/us_government_workers_resign_deal/ 

Jeff Bezos deletes 'LGBTQ+ rights' and 'equity for Black people' from Amazon corporate policies

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jeff-bezos-deletes-lgbtq-rights-34533955 

iOS 18.3 includes Starlink satellite connectivity for select iPhone users

https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/28/ios-18-3-includes-starlink-satellite-connectivity-for-select-iphone-users/ 

News 

Android 16's Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps, so of course we ran Doom

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/ 

Tesla’s 2024 financial results are out—and they’re terrible

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/01/teslas-2024-financial-results-are-out-and-theyre-terrible/ 

Vodafone aims to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity starting later this year

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/vodafone_aims_to_offer_satellitetophone/ 

Apple Chips Vulnerable 

Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/newly-discovered-flaws-in-apple-chips-leak-secrets-in-safari-and-chrome/ 

SLAP, Apple, and FLOP: Safari, Chrome at risk of data theft on iPhone, Mac, iPad Silicon

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/flop_and_slap_attacks_apple_silicon/ 

The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24352968/pebble-smartwatch-open-source-google-comeback 

Media 

Public Domain Image Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/infinite-view/ 

Apple TV+ series ‘Silo’ ranks on Nielsen Top 10 streaming chart for the first time ever

https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/30/apple-tv-series-silo-nielsen-top-10-streaming-chart/#more-988277 

Alien: Earth will bring the horror home

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/01/alien-earth-teaser-gives-us-xenomorphs-pov/ 

Alien Romulus

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_romulus 

Conclave

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/conclave

Small Things Like These

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/small_things_like_these

Games

GT7 January Update

​​https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/news/00_4747793.html

Main Show

Apple Quarterly Results

Apple reports record Q1 2025 earnings with $124.30 billion in revenue

https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/30/apple-reports-record-q1-2025-earnings-with-124-30-billion-in-revenue/ 

Six Colours

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/01/apples-reports-record-revenue-for-q1-2025/ 

Deep Seek R1

DeepSeek panic triggers tech stock sell-off as Chinese AI tops App Store

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/deepseek-spooks-american-tech-industry-as-it-tops-the-apple-app-store/ 

How does DeepSeek R1 really fare against OpenAI’s best reasoning models?

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/how-does-deepseek-r1-really-fare-against-openais-best-reasoning-models/ 

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/chinese-ai-chatbot-deepseek-censors-itself-in-realtime-users-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 

OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek

https://www.theverge.com/news/601195/openai-evidence-deepseek-distillation-ai-data 

Microsoft catapults DeepSeek R1 into Azure AI Foundry, GitHub

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/microsoft_deepseek_azure_github/ 

DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/deepseek_image_openai/ 

Run it yourself

Network Chuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TR-FLWNVHY&t=51s 

App of the Week 

Origin Story Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/origin-story/id1624704966 

Thing of the Week 

Nintendo Switch Gameboy App

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/game-boy-advance-nintendo-switch-online-switch/

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