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UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 Microsoft Intelligence

ConsentFix debrief: Insights from the new OAuth phishing attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15

Dutch court hearing: Nexperia claims Chinese owner Wingtech pushed for tech transfers out of Europe and threatened execs; Wingtech criticizes Nexperia execs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 China Europe Netherlands

Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 Europe

Reprompt attack let hackers hijack Microsoft Copilot sessions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Belgian startup Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised $60M led by DST Global at a $1B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Startup Belgium

Nuclear Weapons Are Now ESG Compliant (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15

Source: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Tel Aviv- and Boston-based IO River, which lets users manage multiple CDN and edge networks, raised a $20M Series A led by Venture Guides and New Era (www.axios.com)
2026-1-15

Never-Before-Seen Linux Malware Is 'Far More Advanced Than Typical' (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 Linux

UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15 Intelligence

Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B valuation, up from $4.5B after raising $300M in June 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 AI Robot

Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 AI Airbnb Apple

Polymarket is hosting a growing number of contracts related to military conflicts, including China invading Taiwan; possible US strikes in Iran has $18M+ volume (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 China Taiwan Iran

Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next generation, asking candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study during a test (t.co)
2026-1-14 AI

Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (fortune.com)
2026-1-14 ETF

Cloud marketplace Pax8 accidentally exposes data on 1,800 MSP partners (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14

Pok Pok offers educational screen play for life for just $60 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M+, backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 China Hong Kong IPO Alibaba JPMorgan Shanghai

Victorian Department of Education says hackers stole students' data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14 Education

Sources: Chinese authorities told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by ~12 US and Israeli companies due to national security concerns (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14 China Israel

How Ireland, an early data center winner, missed out on much of the current AI boom, hampered by creaking infrastructure and a strained electricity grid (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 AI Ireland

Ahead of WEF 2026, the IMF urges governments to step up support for young workers displaced by AI, arguing candidates could use AI “rather than compete with it” (www.ft.com)
2026-1-14 AI IMF

China's market regulator says it is investigating Trip.com, the country's largest online travel agency, over alleged antitrust conduct, without offering details (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 China

US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570+ people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Energy AI

UK satellite company Open Cosmos wins a highly contested Ka-band spectrum license, used for high-speed internet, beating companies backed by Peter Thiel (www.ft.com)
2026-1-14

NASA, Department of Energy To Develop Lunar Surface Reactor By 2030 (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Energy NASA

Microsoft: Windows 365 update blocks access to Cloud PC sessions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft

In South Korea's competition to develop an indigenous AI model, three of the five finalists used foreign open-source code, which they argue is practical (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-14 Korea AI

Highlights from IEDM 2025: 3D NAND is suddenly relevant again, interconnect metals beyond copper are emerging, 2D materials that could replace silicon, and more (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-1-14

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