NASA Leadership Shakeup & Budget Cuts, Massive ASUS Router Backdoor Alert, AI’s Rapid Evolution, and Ongoing Antitrust Battles: Weekly Tech Roundup

This week in the tech world was marked by significant developments across various fronts. Leadership uncertainties and budgetary concerns cast a shadow over NASA, while a critical cybersecurity alert put thousands of ASUS router users on notice. The artificial intelligence landscape continued its dynamic evolution, with major players like OpenAI and Anthropic making headlines for new capabilities and policy engagements, alongside a notable AI content deal between Amazon and The New York Times. Antitrust scrutiny remained a persistent theme, highlighted by Meta’s ongoing trial and new U.S. restrictions on technology sales to China. In the software realm, the popular Arc browser announced a surprising halt to its development, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic advanced new rules aimed at bolstering online safety and platform accountability.

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CES 2021

CES All Virtual Edition was this week here are some things that were shown off. This year the conference took an all online format due to the pandemic and it wasn’t good. Overall the announcements were kinda dry this year but here some things that were announced there that I thought are cool or important: Infinity Game Table LG rolling transparent display TCL Rollable phone concept Intel announcements AMD 5000 Series mobile chips Asus Announces New Zenbook Duo Samsung announces new Exynos chips Samsung Bot Handy Razer’s Announcements Lenovo’s Announcements Acer’s announcements Dell announcements I’m too lazy to find all … Continue reading CES 2021