Tech

Trump signs an order to impose a 25% tariff on chips “transshipped through the United States to other foreign countries”, as part of the Nvidia H200 deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Trump Nvidia

UK Scraps Mandatory Digital ID Enrollment for Workers After Public Backlash (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15

Dell Tells Staff To Get Ready For the 'Biggest Transformation in Company History' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15

UK PM Keir Starmer says X indicated to government officials it was acting to comply with UK laws by restricting the generation of non-consensual sexual images (www.ft.com)
2026-1-15

PJM trims summer 2027 peak demand forecast to ~160 GW from ~164 GW because some projects, including data centers, lack firm service or construction commitments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15

Novee, which utilizes proprietary AI models to perform automated penetration testing, emerges from stealth with a $43M Series A and an $8.5M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-1-15 AI

OpenAI strikes a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy 750 MW of computing capacity from Cerebras over three years; sources: the deal is worth more than $10B (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-15

NASA Acknowledges Record Heat But Avoids Referencing Climate Change (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 Climate NASA

Bitchat, a P2P messaging app launched by Jack Dorsey, has emerged as a key lifeline for people in Uganda and Iran facing government-imposed internet shutdowns (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Iran P2P Uganda

France fines Free Mobile €42 million over 2024 data breach incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 France Mobile

Widespread Verizon Outage Prompts Emergency Alerts in Washington, New York City (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 New York

Digg, rebooted under original founder Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, launches its open beta; the site had been open to 67,000 users on an invite-only basis (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-15

Exploit code public for critical FortiSIEM command injection flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15

This full-size mechanical keyboard doesn't feel bulky and is 15% off (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15

2026 may be the year of the mega IPO, as sources say Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX took early steps to go public, setting up a watershed moment for the AI boom (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-15 IPO AI SpaceX

Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 China Israel

Elon Musk claims he's “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok” and that Grok's operating principle is to “obey the laws of any given country” (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Elon Musk

Verizon Wireless outage puts phones in SOS mode without cell service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15

Taiwan issues an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau for allegedly illegally hiring 70+ Taiwanese engineers, as it tries to stop China from raiding workers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 China Taiwan

Verizon says it is “aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services for some customers”, as thousands of users report no cellular reception (www.techradar.com)
2026-1-15

Coal Power Generation Falls in China and India for First Time Since 1970s (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 China India

California AG Rob Bonta launches an investigation into xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by Grok (www.politico.com)
2026-1-15 California

Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B+ valuation, up from ~$4.5B in June 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 AI Robot

Elon Musk claims he was “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok” and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-15 Elon Musk

McKinsey Asks Graduates To Use AI Chatbot in Recruitment Process (slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 AI chatbot

Saudi Arabia's PIF transfers ~$12B worth of gaming company shares, including Nintendo, to Savvy Games; PIF transferred 11M Take-Two shares in December 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Arabia Nintendo Saudi Arabia

Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15

How Ireland, an early data center winner, has missed out on much of the AI boom due to creaking infrastructure and a strained electricity grid stopping projects (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 AI Ireland

Depthfirst, which provides AI-native tools for codebase scanning, credential exposure protection, and more, raised a $40M Series A led by Accel Partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-15 AI

Microsoft updates Windows DLL that triggered security alerts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

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