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Saudi Arabia's PIF is transferring ~$12B worth of gaming company shares, including Nintendo, to Savvy Games; PIF transferred 11M Take-Two shares in December (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Arabia Nintendo Saudi Arabia

How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters (www.ft.com)
2026-1-14 Iran

Caterpillar hits a $300B market cap for the first time, driven by demand for its data center power generation equipment; CAT is up 12% in 2026 to a record ~$640 (www.bloomberg.com)
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Bandcamp bans music and audio that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (www.webpronews.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China's first to be fully trained using domestic chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 China AI

Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (www.forbes.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Doubt Cast On Discovery of Microplastics Throughout Human Body (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14

Survey: 41% of US teens aged 13 to 17 support a ban on middle and high school students from using phones in class while 51% oppose it; 73% oppose a full-day ban (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-1-14 Ban

Pentagon Device Linked To Havana Syndrome (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Pentagon

Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-14 AI Apple

Meta Closes Three VR Studios As Part of Its Metaverse Cuts (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 VR

Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Iran SpaceX

Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Senate

Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14

Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Layoffs

Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-14 Google Apple

Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia's H200 chips and AMD's MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Nvidia AMD

Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 IPO Mobile

Ukraine's army targeted in new charity-themed malware campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14 Ukraine

Wine 11.0 Released (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14

Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (research.google)
2026-1-14 Google AI

JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome/Chromium Code (slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Chrome

President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office (www.politico.com)
2026-1-14 Trump

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-14 Startup AI

As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-14 VR

New VoidLink malware framework targets Linux cloud servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14 Linux

Filing: the US greenlights Nvidia H200 exports to China; the chips will be tested by a 3rd-party lab to confirm their AI capabilities before they can be shipped (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14 China AI Nvidia

Apple Bundles Creative Apps Into a Single Subscription (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Apple

Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe (fortune.com)
2026-1-14 Fintech Startup

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