Tech

'Everyone Hates OneDrive, Microsoft's Cloud App That Steals Then Deletes All Your Files' (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Microsoft

London-based e-commerce logistics platform Swap raised a $100M Series C led by DST Global and Iconiq, after raising a $40M Series B in March 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-1-8 London Logistics

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of all Grok images are sexualized (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8

In 2026, Hackers Want AI: Threat Intel on Vibe Hacking & HackGPT (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Intel AI

ownCloud urges users to enable MFA after credential theft reports (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8

As Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to win the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50 SMRs under development have a US operating license (www.ft.com)
2026-1-8 Trump AI

Polymarket Refuses To Pay Bets That US Would 'Invade' Venezuela (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Venezuela

South Korea's President Identifies a New Enemy: Baldness (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Korea

Founder of Spyware Maker PcTattletale Pleads Guilty To Hacking, Advertising Surveillance Software (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

Nike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, roughly one year after Nike shuttered the NFT unit (www.oregonlive.com)
2026-1-8

Memo: JPMorgan's asset management unit cuts ties with proxy advisory firms to use its AI-powered Proxy IQ platform to assist on US votes, an industry first (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 AI JPMorgan Asset

London-based data center company GTR raised $1.5B from KKR and ~$400M from Oak Hill to develop its facilities in England, Barcelona, Zurich, and Tel Aviv (www.ft.com)
2026-1-8 London

Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Google AI

New Veeam vulnerabilities expose backup servers to RCE attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8

Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-7 Australia New Zealand Netherlands

Intel spinout and enterprise AI company Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-7 Intel AI

WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has “significant” risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (www.thewrap.com)
2026-1-7 Netflix

Enhance your security career with CISSP courses for under $20 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7 Career

UK announces plan to strengthen public sector cyber defenses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

10 Dark Details of Australia's Gruesome Unsolved Wanda Murders (listverse.com)
2026-1-7 Australia

Filing: Samsung plans to acquire $1.73B of its stock for employee and executive compensation, as part of a performance-linked scheme introduced in October 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-7 Samsung

Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's $2B Manus acquisition for possible tech export control violations, including Manus' relocation to Singapore (t.co)
2026-1-7 China Singapore

Jensen Huang says Nvidia has “fired up” H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the “last details” with the US government (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 China Nvidia

Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Samsung

Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M in wagers (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7

Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; MiniMax has 210M+ users, and Zhipu has 8,000+ clients (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 China Hong Kong Startup AI

Sources: Discord files confidentially for a US IPO, working with Goldman and JPMorgan; Discord was valued at $15B in 2021, and rejected a $12B Microsoft offer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Microsoft IPO JPMorgan Goldman

Congressman Introduces Legislation To Criminalize Insider Trading On Prediction Markets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7 LinkedIn

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