Tech

Students Increasingly Choosing Community College or Certificates Over Four-Year Degrees (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16

The Department of Commerce says the US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement as part of which Taiwan will invest $250B in chip production capacity in the US (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 Taiwan

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16 Microsoft

This $80 refurbished touchscreen Chromebook ships for free (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Microsoft

Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (www.inc.com)
2026-1-16 AI eBay

Many People Who Come Off GLP-1 Drugs Regain Weight Within 2 Years, Review Suggests (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16

Equal1, which was spun out from University College Dublin, raised $60M to deploy its new quantum server for data centers, bringing its total funding to $85M (www.irishtimes.com)
2026-1-16 Quantum

Amazon Threatens 'Drastic Action' After Saks Bankruptcy (slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Amazon

Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (blog.google)
2026-1-16 Google

Letter: a top House Republican warns severe DRAM and HBM3E supply shortages may constrain H200 export licenses; Nvidia says it “can serve all approved” orders (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Republican Nvidia

X revises its developer API policies to “no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka “infofi")", amid a backlash about growing AI slop on X (decrypt.co)
2026-1-16 AI

Sources: Apple now needs to fight for TSMC production capacity amid the AI boom; Nvidia was likely TSMC's top customer in at least one or two quarters in 2025 (www.culpium.com)
2026-1-16 AI Apple Nvidia

The United States Needs Fewer Bus Stops (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16

OpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Robot

Critical flaw lets hackers track, eavesdrop via Bluetooth audio devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively “worthless” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 Amazon

Apple is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Apple Nvidia

Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Startup

Wikipedia Signs AI Licensing Deals On Its 25th Birthday (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 AI

How to automate just-in-time access to applications with Tines (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Anthropic's Index Shows Job Evolution Over Replacement (slashdot.org)
2026-1-16

AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension from Accel and others at a $1.3B+ valuation, and reports a $200M annualized revenue run rate (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 Startup AI

'White-Collar Workers Shouldn't Dismiss a Blue-Collar Career Change' (slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Career

Boston-based Tulip, which offers an AI-powered frontline operations platform used by 60K workers, raised a $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi at a $1.3B valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-1-16 AI Mitsubishi

Thinking Machines Lab parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to “unethical conduct” (x.com)
2026-1-16

Researchers discover WhisperPair, a set of vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol affecting 17 audio device models from 10 brands; Google has patched (www.wired.com)
2026-1-16 Google

BlackRock raises $12.5B as part of its Microsoft partnership to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, bringing it closer to its $30B goal from 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Microsoft Energy

AI Models Are Starting To Crack High-Level Math Problems (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 AI Mathematics

Bitmine, the largest corporate holder of ether, invests $200M in MrBeast's Beast Industries, set to close on January 19; Bitmine holds ~4M ETH valued at ~$13.6B (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-16 ETH

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