Tech

PhD Students' Taste For Risk Mirrors Their Supervisors' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big Tech's acqui-hires to make sure “they are not an attempt to get around” its merger review process (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17

TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-17 Brazil

Partly AI-Generated Folk-Pop Hit Barred From Sweden's Official Charts (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 AI Sweden

Black Basta boss makes it onto Interpol's 'Red Notice' list (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

Ads Are Coming To ChatGPT in the Coming Weeks (slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

OpenAI expands its $8/month ChatGPT Go subscription tier to the US and the rest of the world, after previously launching it in India and some other countries (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-17 India

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (www.wired.com)
2026-1-17

Seattle is Building Light Rail Like It's 1999 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Seattle

OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: it expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026 (t.co)
2026-1-17

Verizon starts issuing $20 credits after nationwide outage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

China-linked hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day for initial access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17 China

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27: Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a “side show”, and more (sources.news)
2026-1-17 AI Elon Musk

Verizon Offers $20 Credit After Nationwide Outage Stranded Users in SOS Mode For Hours (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins construction of the country's first chip plant, with trial production expected to start by late 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-17 Vietnam

Sources: Replit is in advanced discussions to raise a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9B; source: the round is for ~$400M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17

AI Has Made Salesforce Engineers More Productive, So the Company Has Stopped Hiring Them, CEO Says (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 AI Salesforce

Sources: Trump and Northeastern state governors agree to push grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants, amid the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Trump AI

Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the puzzle game Match Valley, raised a $30M Series A led by Arcadia Gaming Partners and a16z (tech.eu)
2026-1-17

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In-N-Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-1-17 AI

Ruby on Rails Creator Says AI Coding Tools Still Can't Match Most Junior Programmers (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Programmer AI

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a “side show”, more (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-17 AI Elon Musk

China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 China

DoorDash Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the delivery app company after less than six months; long-term VP Shanna Prevé will become CRO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17

Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

ClickHouse, a Snowflake challenger that offers an OLAP database management system, raised $400M led by Dragoneer at a $15B valuation, up from $6.35B in May 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Database

Code.org: Use AI In an Interview Without Our OK and You're Dead To Us (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Interview AI

Amazon Is Buying America's First New Copper Output In More Than a Decade (slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 U.S. Amazon

Source: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 Italy

Microsoft: Windows 11 update causes Outlook freezes for POP users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16 Microsoft

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