Tech

Reading is a Vice (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3

Cryptocurrency theft attacks traced to 2022 LastPass breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3 Cryptocurrency

Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% “taxi tax” on total fares (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-3 Uber Tax London

A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3

Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-3

'Results Were Fudged': Departing Meta AI Chief Confirms Llama 4 Benchmark Manipulation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3 AI

An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia to Sun Microsystems, and more (www.youtube.com)
2026-1-3 Interview AI Nvidia

Over 10K Fortinet firewalls exposed to actively exploited 2FA bypass (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3

xAI's Grok says “lapses in safeguards” led it to create sexualized images of minors in response to user prompts on X; the images have been taken down (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-3

Google is testing a new image AI and it's going to be its fastest model (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3 Google AI

Ghana Tries To Regulate Online Prophecies (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Prints Final Newspaper, Shifts To All-Digital Format (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-3

Yann LeCun says Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results (www.ft.com)
2026-1-3

Trust Wallet links $8.5 million crypto theft to Shai-Hulud NPM attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3

Babbel's 14-language library makes fluency surprisingly doable (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3

Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future (danwang.co)
2026-1-3 China AI Manufacturing

How Nokia Went From iPhone Victim To $1 Billion Nvidia Deal (slashdot.org)
2026-1-2 iPhone Nvidia Nokia

UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (www.bbc.com)
2026-1-2 Tax

How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+ annual run rate; Sensor Tower: users spend 27 minutes/day on Instagram Reels, 21 on YouTube Shorts, and 44 on TikTok (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-2 YouTube Instagram Sensor

ASUS Announces Price Hikes Starting January 5 (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-2

How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (www.ft.com)
2026-1-2 AI Nvidia Nokia

Australia's Biggest Pension Fund To Cut Global Stocks Allocation on AI Concerns (slashdot.org)
2026-1-2 Australia AI

Chinese AI chip startup Biren surged as much as 119% in its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$717M in an IPO priced at ~$2.52 per share (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-2 China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

No Standard iPhone 18 Launch This Year, Reports Suggest (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-2 iPhone

How Arizona is training talent for its growing chip industry as suppliers fear tighter US immigration policy; Arizona has drawn $200B+ in investments since 2020 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-2 Immigration

Sources: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could all go public in 2026; those three deals alone would outstrip the total proceeds from the ~200 US IPOs in 2025 (t.co)
2026-1-2 IPO SpaceX

Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin confidentially files for a Hong Kong IPO, paving the way for a spin-off; a recent fundraising reportedly valued it at ~$3B (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-2 Hong Kong IPO AI

Starlink plans to lower its satellites orbiting at ~550km to ~480km in 2026 to improve space safety and reduce the likelihood of debris collisions (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-2

IDC Estimates Apple Shipped Just 45,000 Vision Pros Last Quarter (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-2 Apple

Some of Your Cells Are Not Genetically Yours (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-2

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