Tech

Interviews with Spotify founder Daniel Ek on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithmic fatigue and angry artists (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 Spotify

Sources: Google will start developing and making high-end Pixel phones like the Pro and Fold from scratch in Vietnam in 2026; the Pixel A remains in China (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-13 China Google Vietnam

A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a startup” and aims to be “sustainable”, as it builds new Pebble devices (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-13 Startup

Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-13 China AI

PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-13 AI

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-13

You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000 (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (www.newyorker.com)
2026-1-13 WhatsApp

Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (t.co)
2026-1-13 China Microsoft AI

Sources: Balderton cashed out ~$2B of its Revolut stake in the past year, turning an early £1M bet into a historic European VC win; its fifth fund returned 25x (t.co)
2026-1-13 Europe

The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (decrypt.co)
2026-1-13 New York

Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 China Hong Kong IPO

Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it “would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive” (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-13 China Nvidia

EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (www.piratewires.com)
2026-1-13 Tax Startup California

European Firms Hit Hiring Brakes Over AI and Slowing Growth (slashdot.org)
2026-1-13 Europe AI

Viral Chinese App 'Are You Dead?' Checks On Those Who Live Alone (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13 China

SK Hynix will invest ~$12.9B to build an advanced chip packaging plant in South Korea to meet rising memory chip demand, targeting completion by the end of 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-13 Korea

Trump says Microsoft will “ensure” Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must “pay their own way” for their data centers (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-13 Trump U.S. Microsoft

Even Linus Torvalds Is Vibe Coding Now (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13 Fintech

Should AI Agents Be Classified As People? (slashdot.org)
2026-1-13 AI

Hacker gets seven years for breaching Rotterdam and Antwerp ports (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-13 Hacker

Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13

The 10 Least Credible Superstars in Professional Sports (listverse.com)
2026-1-13

Meta Plans To Cut Around 10% of Employees In Reality Labs Division (meta.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

Bakkt agrees to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, the stablecoin infrastructure company founded by Bakkt CEO Akshay Naheta; BKKT closes up 18.69% (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-13

Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain (simonwillison.net)
2026-1-13

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