Tech

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (thedesk.net)
2026-1-16 California

Study Finds Weak Evidence Linking Social Media Use to Teen Mental Health Problems (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Social Media

Sources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants due to AI demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Trump AI

YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (www.tubefilter.com)
2026-1-16 YouTube

Amazon Is Making a Fallout Shelter Competition Reality TV Show (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Amazon

New York Introduces Legislation To Crack Down On 3D Printers That Make Ghost Guns (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 New York

Sources: Thinking Machines lacks a clear product or business strategy and has been struggling over the last couple of months to raise a new round of financing (sources.news)
2026-1-16

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-1-16 Fintech Startup

Iran's Internet Shutdown Is Now One of the Longest Ever (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Iran

Google now lets you change your @gmail.com address, rolling out (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16 Google

ChatGPT is now more reliable at finding and remembering your past chat (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI, alleging Grok refused to stop making sexualized deepfakes of her, amid custody disputes (nypost.com)
2026-1-16 Elon Musk

Astronauts Splash Down To Earth After Medical Evacuation From ISS (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16

As Meta shifts resources away from its Supernatural VR fitness service, users mourn the loss of a community built around the platform and its coaches (www.wired.com)
2026-1-16 VR

ASUS Stops Producing Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Nvidia

Gootloader now uses 1,000-part ZIP archives for stealthy delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (therecord.media)
2026-1-16 Google

Italy's Privacy Watchdog, Scourge of US Big Tech, Hit By Corruption Probe (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Italy

Oracle Trying To Lure Workers To Nashville For New 'Global' HQ (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Oracle

Grubhub confirms hackers stole data in recent security breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Boeing Knew About Flaws in UPS Plane That Crashed in Louisville, NTSB Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Boeing

Source: at least two more Thinking Machines staffers are expected to join OpenAI soon; some researchers say they are exhausted by the industry's constant drama (www.wired.com)
2026-1-16

Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 IOS Mobile

Hackers exploit Modular DS WordPress plugin flaw for admin access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16 WordPress

Sources: Replit is in advanced discussions to raise about $400M in a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16

Raspberry Pi's New Add-on Board Has 8GB of RAM For Running Gen AI Models (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Raspberry Pi AI

Mytra, which is building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, raised a $120M Series C led by Avenir Growth (fortune.com)
2026-1-16 Robot

Verizon blames nationwide outage on a "software issue" (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-16

Why Go is Going Nowhere (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16

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