Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the Guardian’s US tech editor.

One year ago today, Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States. Standing alongside him that day were the leaders of the tech industry’s most powerful companies, who had donated to him in an unprecedented bending of the knee. In the ensuing year, the companies have reaped enormous rewards from their alliance with Trump, which my colleague Nick Robins-Early and I wrote about last month after Trump signed an executive order prohibiting states from passing laws regulating AI. Trump has sponsored the tech industry with billions in government funding and with diplomatic visits that featured CEOs as his fellow negotiators in massive, lucrative deals.

David Beckham is addressing the “mistakes” that can be made on social media following revealing Instagram Stories posted by his son Brooklyn Beckham on Monday. In the posts, Brooklyn accused his parents, David and Victoria Beckham, of controlling “narratives in the press about our family” and “trying endlessly to ruin my relationship” with his wife Nicola Peltz Beckham, among other claims.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s political thriller One Battle After Another leads all comers as the Vancouver Film Critics Circle unveiled its nominations for the best movies of 2025 on Tuesday.

One Battle After Another came out on top with seven nods, including for best picture, best director, best screenplay and acting nominations for Leonardo Di Caprio and supporting cast members Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor and Sean Penn.

Late last year, a Reddit post caused something of a furore. A user posted a photo of their Cosmic Orange iPhone 17 Pro that had turned pink. A few other examples followed.

However, while you should continue to follow Apple’s advice on how to avoid this, tests have shown it’s unlikely to happen accidentally …

The new Cosmic Orange color introduced with the launch of the iPhone 17 Pro proved a popular one. However, some owners found that they were experiencing discoloration. The casing was turning to either a pink or rose gold colour.

The next target for the Gulf’s apparently insatiable appetite for sports and leisure deals could be professional basketball — with the NBA trying to entice Middle East sovereign funds to invest in a new, European league.

Gulf investors already own soccer giants like Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, part of a global spree that has seen them pour funds into boxing, cycling, golf, and F1, alongside more sedentary pursuits like e-sports. Sovereign wealth funds have long had designs on the NBA but can’t own more than 20% of a basketball franchise in the US. There are no such restrictions in Europe.

Midnight Oil drummer and co-founder Rob Hirst has died aged 70.

The musician and singer “died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones”, according to a statement on the Sydney band’s social media today (Tuesday January 20).

“After fighting heroically for almost three years, Rob is now free of pain – ‘a glimmer of tiny light in the wilderness’,” the post read.

Last April, Hirst shared that he had been living with stage three pancreatic cancer since 2023. “I’ve had pretty much every treatment known to man – every scan, ultrasound, MRI,” he said at the time. I’ve kind of had ‘the works’.”