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Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy' Is Here, UN Report Says (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21

Multiple Apple services, including Apple TV, the App Store, and iCloud have been experiencing outages since 6:48 PM ET, according to Apple's system status page (www.macrumors.com)
2026-1-21 Apple

Analysis: the Trump family has generated about $1.4B from crypto projects since Trump's inauguration a year ago, making up about one-fifth of their fortune (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Trump

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is testing actions feature (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21 Browser

cURL Removes Bug Bounties (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21

OpenAI and ServiceNow Strike Deal to Put AI Agents in Business Software (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI

G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 AI Nvidia AMD

Developer Rescues Stadia Bluetooth Tool That Google Killed (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 Google

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-21

The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21

Google says Gemini won't have ads, as ChatGPT prepares to add them (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21 Google

HHS Announces New Study of Cellphone Radiation and Health (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Startup Drone

X says it has open sourced its “core recommendation system” on GitHub and that the system “ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 GitHub

Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-1-21 Mobile Netflix

ACF plugin bug gives hackers admin on 50,000 WordPress sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21 WordPress

OpenAI rolls out age prediction model on ChatGPT to detect your age (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21

UK Mulls Australia-Like Social Media Ban For Users Under 16 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 Australia Ban Social Media

Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI

A Massachusetts judge grants a preliminary injunction blocking Kalshi from letting state residents bet on sports through its online platform (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21

Demis Hassabis says there aren't “any plans” to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says “maybe they feel they need to make more revenue” (sources.news)
2026-1-21

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several such lawsuits (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-21

Meta's Oversight Board Takes Up Permanent Bans In Landmark Case (meta.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21

Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-21 Elon Musk

56% of Companies Have Seen Zero Financial Return From AI Investments, PwC Survey Says (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI

Netflix's ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by more than 2.5x vs. 2024, and viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2, driven by a 9% rise in viewing of branded originals (deadline.com)
2026-1-21 Netflix

Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Netflix 4Q

The US FTC plans to appeal to revive its case accusing Meta of bolstering an illegal monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp; Meta won the case in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Instagram WhatsApp

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (www.axios.com)
2026-1-21

Setapp Mobile To Close in February as Alternative iOS App Store Economics Prove Untenable (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 IOS Mobile

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