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Despite projections of memory shortages for PCs and phones, producers like Micron will proceed cautiously in adding new capacity, mindful of past downcycles (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-12

Qatar and UAE will join the Pax Silica coalition on January 12 and 15, respectively, expanding the US-led effort to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-12 AI Qatar

A profile of SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the company since 2002, and is known as a customer emissary and Musk translator (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-12 SpaceX

Finnish Startup IXI Plans New Autofocusing Eyeglasses (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12 Startup Finland

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says AI Doomerism Has 'Done a Lot of Damage' (slashdot.org)
2026-1-12 AI Nvidia

Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-12

ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-12 AI Y Combinator

How Many Years Left Until the Hubble Space Telescope Reenters Earth's Atmosphere? (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12

Walmart Announces Drone Delivery, Integration with Google's AI Chatbot Gemini (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12 Google AI chatbot Drone Walmart

Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (tech.eu)
2026-1-12 AI

Gentoo Linux Plans Migration from GitHub Over 'Attempts to Force Copilot Usage for Our Repositories' (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12 Linux GitHub

Instagram denies breach amid claims of 17 million account data leak (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-12 Instagram

Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-12 Instagram

Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 AI

Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12 Instagram Darknet

China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12 China

Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 Google AI Walmart

Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 chatbot Malaysia Indonesia

Walmart to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+ stores, covering ~10% of US population (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-12 Drone Alphabet Walmart

That Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12

Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-12 Google AI

Google is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product (www.ft.com)
2026-1-12 Google AI

California bans data broker reselling health data of millions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-12 California

A detailed look at the Apple-TSMC relationship: Apple's annual spend at TSMC rose 12x, from $2B in 2014 to $24B in 2025, and once made up 25% of TSMC's revenue (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-1-12 Apple

Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End 'Enshittification' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12

This 2-in-1 Chromebook is on sale for just $160 with free shipping (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-12

Analysis: the AI investment boom represents ~1% of US GDP, roughly half the GDP share during the '90s dot-com boom and comparable to the mid-2010s US shale boom (www.ft.com)
2026-1-11 AI GDP

C# (and C) Grew in Popularity in 2025, Says TIOBE (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-1-11

Documents and sources: India proposes security rules that would force smartphone makers to share source code, prompting quiet pushback from Apple and Samsung (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-11 India Samsung Apple

A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber (www.anildash.com)
2026-1-11

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