Tech

Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China

Sony and TCL sign a non-binding agreement to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a new joint venture, aiming to finalize the deal by March (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-20 Sony

Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 Climate

Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Shanghai

PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which improves e-commerce UX; Everstone bought Wingify for $200M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-20 France India

French accounting software startup Pennylane raised $204M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation, with participation from Blackstone, DST, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 France Startup

10 Unsettling Ways Big Brother Is (Likely) Spying on You (listverse.com)
2026-1-20

Top 10 Real Almost‑Cities That Never Materialized (listverse.com)
2026-1-20

10 Most Influential Fictional Objects in Cinema History (listverse.com)
2026-1-20

10 Incredible Big-Time Art Fraudsters (listverse.com)
2026-1-20

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Korea AI

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (t.co)
2026-1-20 China Alibaba AI

Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 Financial Crisis

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (inc42.com)
2026-1-20 Startup Robot

xAI has faced a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok's generation of non-consensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20

The Fastest Human Spaceflight Mission In History Crawls Closer To Liftoff (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (www.anthropic.com)
2026-1-20

The World's Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

Germany's EV Subsidies Will Include Chinese Brands (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 China Germany

ChatGPT Go now unlocks unlimited access to GPT-5.2 Instant for $8 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20

You can get ChatGPT's $20 Plus subscription for free for a limited time (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20

The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-20 AI

A Second US Sphere Could Come To Maryland (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 Nvidia

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files (simonwillison.net)
2026-1-20 AI Browser

OpenAI CFO Says Annualized Revenue Crosses $20 Billion In 2025 (devices.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-20 Ban

Threads Usage Overtakes X On Mobile (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 Mobile

Fake ad blocker extension crashes the browser for ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20 Browser

Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting To Big Tech (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

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