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Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala's attempt to oust the agency's Chief Information Officer Robert Costello (www.politico.com)
2026-1-19

More US States are Putting Bitcoin on Public Balance Sheets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 Bitcoin

Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 China Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

The memory shortage that is spiking RAM prices is now expanding to the broader PC market, driving price hikes for GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and hard drives (arstechnica.com)
2026-1-19

Shenzhen-based UBTech signed deals to supply its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10,000+ units in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 Airbus Robot Shenzhen Texas

Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth? (slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 AI

Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (x.com)
2026-1-19 VR Layoffs

A look at the business and geopolitical considerations behind TSMC's international expansion, as Taiwan commits to spend $250B+ in the US in a trade deal (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-19 Taiwan

EHT Astronomers Will Film Swirling of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19

New OpenAI leak hints at upcoming ChatGPT features (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-19

OpenAI hostname hints at a new ChatGPT feature codenamed "Sonata" (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-19

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B+ in 2025 (openai.com)
2026-1-19

Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe Last Year than Pure Gas-Powered Models (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 Europe

Young US College Graduates Suddenly Aren't Finding Jobs Faster Than Non-College Graduates (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19

Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender” (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-19

Young College Graduates Suddenly Aren't Finding Jobs Faster Than Non-College Graduates (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19

SpaceX Launches New NASA Telescope to Help JWST Study Exoplanets (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 SpaceX NASA

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-19 Retail AI New York

Hundreds Answer Europe's 'Public Call for Evidence' on an Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 Europe

Microsoft Forced to Issue Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Update (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 Microsoft

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 “liquidation cascade” (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-19 4Q

Microsoft releases OOB Windows updates to fix shutdown, Cloud PC bugs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-19 Microsoft

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-19 Android IOS Instagram

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-19 AI

Astronomers Finally Explain How Molecules From Earth's Atmosphere Keep Winding Up On the Moon (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19

China Builds 'Hypergravity' Machine 2,000X Stronger Than Earth (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 China

Acer Sues Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, Alleging Infringment on Acer's Cellular Networking Patents (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 Mobile AT&T

This refurbished Surface Laptop 3 deal just dropped below $300 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-19

CIRO data breach last year exposed info on 750,000 Canadian investors (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-19 Canada

Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+ (www.ft.com)
2026-1-19

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