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Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (apnews.com)
2026-1-18 AI

NASA Livestreams the Rocket That Will Carry Four Astronauts Around the Moon (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-18 NASA

This $25 CompTIA prep bundle covers many different IT paths (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-18

Malicious GhostPoster browser extensions found with 840,000 installs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-18 Browser

Credential-stealing Chrome extensions target enterprise HR platforms (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-18 Chrome

ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-18 Monero

What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-18

T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64 (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-1-18 Linux

Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-18 Taiwan

As US Officials Showed Off a Self-Driving Robo-Bus - It Got Hit By a Tesla Driver (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-18 Tesla

Beaconcha.in: a record ~36M ethereum tokens, or 30% of ethereum's total supply, worth ~$119B, are now staked, as institutional investors grow their share (sherwood.news)
2026-1-18 Ethereum

Nearly 5 Million Accounts Removed Under Australia's New Social Media Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-18 Australia Ban Social Media

Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO TS Anil an expanded role after he steps down in February; he is likely to retain a board seat (www.ft.com)
2026-1-18

Supreme Court May Block Thousands of Lawsuits Over Monsanto's Weed Killer (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

TrendForce: data centers will use 70%+ of the high-end memory chips all manufacturers will produce in 2026, with little new manufacturing capacity until 2027 (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-17 Manufacturing

Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Microsoft Elon Musk

Biggest Offshore Wind Project In US To Resume Construction (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow (sherwood.news)
2026-1-17 Android IOS

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (www.ft.com)
2026-1-17

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 SaaS AI Adobe

Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (resiliencemedia.co)
2026-1-17 AI

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-17 India Microsoft

Pesticides May Drastically Shorten Fish Lifespans, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (www.syracuse.com)
2026-1-17 Manufacturing New York

Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-17

Judge Orders Anna's Archive To Delete Scraped Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

Sources: suppliers of parts for Nvidia's H200 chips have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the AI processors (www.ft.com)
2026-1-17 China AI Nvidia

Patch Tuesday Update Makes Windows PCs Refuse To Shut Down (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-17

Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025 (www.wired.com)
2026-1-17

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