Tech

Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

NYSE Eyes 24/7 Tokenized Stock Trading With Weekend Access and Same-Day Settlement (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the company is “on track” to unveil its first device in the “latter part” of 2026; reports suggest it will be a wearable (www.axios.com)
2026-1-20

Taiwanese media: Asus Chair Jonney Shih says the company won't release any new smartphones in 2026, signaling the brand's exit from the Android market (www.pcmag.com)
2026-1-20 Android Taiwan

IMF Warns Global Economic Resilience at Risk if AI Falters (slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 AI IMF

Become fluent in up to 14 languages with this Babbel lifetime offer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20

Ingram Micro says ransomware attack affected 42,000 people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20

Jordanian pleads guilty to selling access to 50 corporate networks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20

Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-20 Google

NYSE plans to use its tech that matches buyers and sellers, alongside blockchain networks, to facilitate real-time trading of tokenized securities in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 Blockchain

China Birth Rate Falls To Lowest Since 1949 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 China

a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it “one of the best funds” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 AI

China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 - Double the US (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 China

Sources: Microsoft is preparing to launch a session-based ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming tier in 2026; users note Xbox Cloud Gaming now references “ad support” (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-1-20 Microsoft Xbox

The IMF says the “surprisingly resilient” global economy is at risk of a sharp AI boom reversal, but the “levels of market frothiness” are below the dotcom bust (www.ft.com)
2026-1-19 AI IMF

Source: Elon Musk donates $10M to boost pro-Trump Senate candidate Nate Morris, seeking to replace Mitch McConnell, in Musk's largest-ever Senate donation (www.axios.com)
2026-1-19 Trump Elon Musk Senate

Bitcoin fell 3.6% to under $92K, ether fell ~5%, and solana fell 8.6%, wiping ~$100B from crypto's total value, after Trump proposed new 10% European tariffs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 Trump Europe Bitcoin

Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-19 China AI Robot Drone

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (variety.com)
2026-1-19 AI Netflix

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-19 Slack

Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (counterpointresearch.com)
2026-1-19 China iPhone 4Q

Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala's attempt to oust the agency's Chief Information Officer Robert Costello (www.politico.com)
2026-1-19

More US States are Putting Bitcoin on Public Balance Sheets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 Bitcoin

Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 China Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

The memory shortage that is spiking RAM prices is now expanding to the broader PC market, driving price hikes for GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and hard drives (arstechnica.com)
2026-1-19

Shenzhen-based UBTech signed deals to supply its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10,000+ units in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 Airbus Robot Shenzhen Texas

Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth? (slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 AI

Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (x.com)
2026-1-19 VR Layoffs

A look at the business and geopolitical considerations behind TSMC's international expansion, as Taiwan commits to spend $250B+ in the US in a trade deal (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-19 Taiwan

EHT Astronomers Will Film Swirling of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-19

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