Tech

Boeing Knew About Flaws in UPS Plane That Crashed in Louisville, NTSB Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Boeing

Source: at least two more Thinking Machines staffers are expected to join OpenAI soon; some researchers say they are exhausted by the industry's constant drama (www.wired.com)
2026-1-16

Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 IOS Mobile

Hackers exploit Modular DS WordPress plugin flaw for admin access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16 WordPress

Sources: Replit is in advanced discussions to raise about $400M in a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16

Raspberry Pi's New Add-on Board Has 8GB of RAM For Running Gen AI Models (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Raspberry Pi AI

Mytra, which is building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, raised a $120M Series C led by Avenir Growth (fortune.com)
2026-1-16 Robot

Verizon blames nationwide outage on a "software issue" (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-16

Why Go is Going Nowhere (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16

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

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