• 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.

• 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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