Tech

Study Casts Doubt on Potential For Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

Mobileye is acquiring Israeli humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $900M; Mentee was founded in 2022 and has raised $50M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Israel Startup Robot

Internal memo: Hark, the new AI lab from Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, backed by $100M of his own capital, has hired 30+ engineers from Apple, Meta, and others (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-7 AI Apple

Microsoft cancels plans to rate limit Exchange Online bulk emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7 Microsoft

Nvidia's New G-Sync Pulsar Monitors Target Motion Blur at the Human Retina Level (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 Nvidia

Google will now publish new source code to the Android Open Source Project twice a year, down from releasing source code for each quarterly Android release (www.androidauthority.com)
2026-1-7 Android Google Open Source

xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding the $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training (x.ai)
2026-1-7 Nvidia

Jensen Huang says he isn't concerned about a billionaires tax under consideration in California, and plans to remain in Silicon Valley (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Tax California

Lego Unveils Smart Bricks, Its 'Most Significant Evolution' in 50 years (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

New D-Link flaw in legacy DSL routers actively exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7

Elite Colleges Are Back at the Top of the List For Company Recruiters (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

Sandisk shares jump ~23% after Jensen Huang highlighted the need for memory and storage at CES; SNDK is up 40%+ in the first three trading sessions of 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes down 43% after cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7

Score a open-box MS Surface SE laptop for just $180 right now + free shipping (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7

Kimwolf Android botnet abuses residential proxies to infect internal devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7 Android

HarperCollins Will Use AI To Translate Harlequin Romance Novels (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 AI

Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a “rolling scan” scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight (arstechnica.com)
2026-1-7 Nvidia

Buyout firm Hg agrees to acquire enterprise financial software maker OneStream in an all-cash deal valued at ~$6.4B that is set to close in H1 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

Asus redesigns the Zenbook Duo with a new “hideaway” hinge that shrinks the gap between the laptop's two 3K 144Hz Lumina Pro OLED displays to just 8.28 mm (www.engadget.com)
2026-1-7

AWS implemented a 15% price hike for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on January 3; Amazon says it “reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter” (www.theregister.com)
2026-1-7 Amazon

Many Schools Don't Think Students Can Read Full Novels Anymore (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

UK Urged To Unplug From US Tech Giants as Digital Sovereignty Fears Grow (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

Internal memo: Meta names CJ Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump's first term, as its chief legal officer (www.axios.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Microsoft

Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock unveils the Saros Rover, a concept robot vacuum with two wheel-legs to let it climb steps, as robotics dominates CES (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 China Robot

Commonwealth Fusion Systems teams up with Nvidia and Siemens to build an AI digital twin of its Sparc fusion reactor, accelerating its push to commercial fusion (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
2026-1-7 AI Nvidia Siemens

HP Pushes PC-in-a-Keyboard for Businesses With Hot Desks (slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia “to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement”, centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model (www.billboard.com)
2026-1-7 AI Nvidia

Marvell says it will acquire networking equipment provider XConn Technologies in a deal worth about $540M; the deal is expected to close in early 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-7

Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised CA$180M led by Planet First Partners, bringing its total funding to CA$375M (betakit.com)
2026-1-7 Startup Quantum

'NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 Social Media

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