{"id":4828,"date":"2025-01-27T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2025-02-08T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:07:11","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-january-26th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-january-26th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 January 26th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sweden seizes and boards ship suspected of cable damage in Baltic Sea &#8211; Euro News | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/27\/sweden-seizes-ship-suspected-of-cable-damage-in-baltic-sea\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals &#8211; WIRED | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/deepseek-app-popular-viral\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nvidia, Microsoft shares tumble as China-based AI app DeepSeek hammers tech giants &#8211; ABC News | <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/nvidia-microsoft-shares-tumble-china-based-ai-app\/story?id=118136157\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Perplexity Submits Revised Proposal For Merging With TikTok US &#8211; Tech Report | <a href=\"https:\/\/techreport.com\/news\/perplexity-revised-proposal-merging-tiktok-us\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Facebook is blocking Linux topics and channels with no apparent reason &#8211; TechRadar | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/facebook-is-blocking-linux-topics-and-channels-with-no-apparent-reason\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OpenAI says it has evidence China\u2019s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor &#8211; Financial Times | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trump signs settlement agreement with Meta, source says &#8211; CNN | <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/29\/business\/trump-meta-settlement\/index.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OpenAI announces surprise \u2018Deep Research\u2019 stream tonight &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/openai-announces-surprise-deep-research-stream-tonight-220708906.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Industrial giant Honeywell announces split into 3 companies after investor pressure &#8211; Yahoo | <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/industrial-giant-honeywell-announces-split-032019010.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google ditches DEI hiring goals &#8211; TechCrunch | <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/05\/google-ditches-dei-hiring-goals\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Apple will reportedly announce a new iPhone SE next week &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/smartphones\/apple-will-reportedly-announce-a-new-iphone-se-next-week-120006642.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Musk team\u2019s access to student loan systems raises alarm over borrowers&#8217; personal information &#8211; AP News | <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/education-department-trump-doge-8c5bba3883b3d924b28114a4f291bec4\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden seizes and boards ship suspected of cable damage in Baltic Sea &#8211; Euro News | Link Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals &#8211; WIRED | Link Nvidia, Microsoft shares tumble as China-based AI app DeepSeek hammers tech giants &#8211; ABC News | Link Perplexity Submits Revised Proposal For Merging With TikTok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}