Tech

Nearly 5 Million Accounts Removed Under Australia's New Social Media Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-18 Australia Ban Social Media

Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO TS Anil an expanded role after he steps down in February; he is likely to retain a board seat (www.ft.com)
2026-1-18

Supreme Court May Block Thousands of Lawsuits Over Monsanto's Weed Killer (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

TrendForce: data centers will use 70%+ of the high-end memory chips all manufacturers will produce in 2026, with little new manufacturing capacity until 2027 (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-17 Manufacturing

Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Microsoft Elon Musk

Biggest Offshore Wind Project In US To Resume Construction (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow (sherwood.news)
2026-1-17 Android IOS

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (www.ft.com)
2026-1-17

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 SaaS AI Adobe

Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (resiliencemedia.co)
2026-1-17 AI

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-17 India Microsoft

Pesticides May Drastically Shorten Fish Lifespans, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (www.syracuse.com)
2026-1-17 Manufacturing New York

Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-17

Judge Orders Anna's Archive To Delete Scraped Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

Sources: suppliers of parts for Nvidia's H200 chips have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the AI processors (www.ft.com)
2026-1-17 China AI Nvidia

Patch Tuesday Update Makes Windows PCs Refuse To Shut Down (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-17

Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025 (www.wired.com)
2026-1-17

Trump Wants Tech Companies To Foot the Bill For New Power Plants (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Trump

Anthropic makes Claude Cowork available to $20/month Pro subscribers, after launching it for Max users, and says Pro users may hit their usage limits sooner (www.engadget.com)
2026-1-17

Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data On Instagram (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Instagram Hacker

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (www.axios.com)
2026-1-17 California

ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-17 Google

Cloudflare Acquires Team Behind Open Source Framework Astro (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Open Source

OpenAI says its new ChatGPT ads won't influence answers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

Sources: Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered US digital asset bank, is seeking to raise $200M to $400M, ahead of a possible IPO in 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 IPO Asset

Canada Reverses Tariff On Chinese EVs (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 China Canada

Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to set up a JV to hold their fiber assets; Stonepeak Partners will invest $1B to support the deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Google Asset

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