ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories like Apple losing to Google, and Meta giving up on VR
The biggest tech news stories from Meta, Amazon, Apple, and more for January 17, 2026.
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Can’t wait for Celebrity Traitors UK season 2? The cast of Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials on Netflix is ‘100%’ game to compete — but think it would be ‘the worst two weeks of our life’
We’ve got The Traitors UK season 4 and Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials on the go at once this week – but two of the Netflix cast would ‘love’ to appear on Celebrity Traitors UK season 2.
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How we built Afina and why WebRTC + QUIC actually matter
When we started building Afina, we didn’t plan to create “another antidetect browser”. Honestly, the original idea was simpler: why do modern antifraud systems detect browsers so easily, even when everything looks fine? User agent matches. Canvas spoofed. WebGL looks normal. And still… blocked. So we stopped looking at fingerprints first and started looking at…
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Claude Code Keeps Forgetting Your Project? Here’s the Fix (2026)
The Frustration We All Know Me: “Let’s continue the payment feature from yesterday” Claude: “I don’t have context from previous sessions. Could you explain what you’ve built so far?” Me: *sighs deeply* If you use Claude Code, you’ve been here. Three hours architecting a solution. Explaining every decision. Finally getting AI to understand your codebase….
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🔐 AWS 137: Secure Resource Access – IAM Roles for EC2 and S3
🛡️ Least Privilege in Action: Connecting EC2 to S3 without Access Keys Hey Cloud Security Architects 👋 Welcome to Day 37 of the #100DaysOfCloud Challenge! Today, the Nautilus DevOps team is implementing a critical security pattern. We need our datacenter-ec2 instance to upload and download files from a private S3 bucket. However, we won’t be…
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‘People love the unexpected’ — Disney on 25 years of Lego Star Wars, Smart Play, and why it’s just getting started
TechRadar caught up with Divya Dalal, VP of Global Hardlines at Disney Consumer Products, to discuss 25 years of Lego Star Wars and the launch of Smart Play.
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Best of both: the LG Wing is the phone I wish I’d tried before phone design became boring
Since LG closed its mobile business, the LG Wing has been the coolest phone you can’t buy
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The Great Decoupling: The Data Sovereignty Correction
Part 3 of “The Great Decoupling” series In Part 1, I argued that interfaces are becoming ephemeral — generated on demand rather than shipped as products. In Part 2, I extended this to enterprise architecture: internal and external systems becoming equivalent capability providers in a unified graph. Now we arrive at the uncomfortable implication that…
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Solved: Highest value marketing skill in 2026?
🚀 Executive Summary TL;DR: IT professionals often fail to articulate the business value of their technical work, leading to poor adoption and budget issues. By 2026, the highest value skill will be mastering the communication of technical value through data-driven storytelling, AI-powered communication, and an IT-as-a-Product mindset to become indispensable strategic partners. 🎯 Key Takeaways…
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“New Year, New You” Portfolio Challenge with Google AI
This is a submission for the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI About Me I’m a software engineer with experience specializing in backend systems, data engineering, and cloud infrastructure. I built this portfolio to showcase two AI-powered projects that solve real problems I face daily: information overload and LLM observability during…
