Tech

Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure connecting banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-1-3 Fintech

Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (futurism.com)
2026-1-3

10 Species That Refused to Go Extinct (listverse.com)
2026-1-3

xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations (venturebeat.com)
2026-1-3

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3 Trump China Pentagon

AMD Closes in on Intel in Latest Steam Hardware Survey (slashdot.org)
2026-1-3 Intel AMD

Covenant Health says May data breach impacted nearly 478,000 patients (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3

India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing “safe harbor” immunity (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-3 India

Filing: OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman donated $25M to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H2 2025; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-3 Trump

Reading is a Vice (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3

Cryptocurrency theft attacks traced to 2022 LastPass breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3 Cryptocurrency

Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% “taxi tax” on total fares (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-3 Uber Tax London

A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3

Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-3

'Results Were Fudged': Departing Meta AI Chief Confirms Llama 4 Benchmark Manipulation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3 AI

An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia to Sun Microsystems, and more (www.youtube.com)
2026-1-3 Interview AI Nvidia

Over 10K Fortinet firewalls exposed to actively exploited 2FA bypass (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3

xAI's Grok says “lapses in safeguards” led it to create sexualized images of minors in response to user prompts on X; the images have been taken down (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-3

Google is testing a new image AI and it's going to be its fastest model (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3 Google AI

Ghana Tries To Regulate Online Prophecies (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Prints Final Newspaper, Shifts To All-Digital Format (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3

Yann LeCun says Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results (www.ft.com)
2026-1-3

Trust Wallet links $8.5 million crypto theft to Shai-Hulud NPM attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3

Babbel's 14-language library makes fluency surprisingly doable (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3

Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future (danwang.co)
2026-1-3 China AI Manufacturing

How Nokia Went From iPhone Victim To $1 Billion Nvidia Deal (slashdot.org)
2026-1-2 iPhone Nvidia Nokia

UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (www.bbc.com)
2026-1-2 Tax

How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+ annual run rate; Sensor Tower: users spend 27 minutes/day on Instagram Reels, 21 on YouTube Shorts, and 44 on TikTok (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-2 YouTube Instagram Sensor

ASUS Announces Price Hikes Starting January 5 (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-2

How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (www.ft.com)
2026-1-2 AI Nvidia Nokia

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