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California's Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-14 California

Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China's first to be fully trained using domestic chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 China AI

Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (www.forbes.com)
2026-1-14 AI

War ready: The human limits of strategy (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-1-14

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran's Uprising (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-14 Iran Social Media

Iran's Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-14 Iran

Xi's Taiwan scorecard: why 2026 is not the year (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-1-14 Taiwan

Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Snouts at the Trough (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-1-14

Doubt Cast On Discovery of Microplastics Throughout Human Body (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14

Czech govt unveils details of covert Ukraine arms program (www.rt.com)
2026-1-14 Ukraine Czech

Bad-Joke Housing CPIs, Absurd Health Insurance CPI Still Marr Today's CPI Report, Repress Year-over-Year CPI Inflation (wolfstreet.com)
2026-1-14 Real Estate Inflation CPI Insurance

Survey: 41% of US teens aged 13 to 17 support a ban on middle and high school students from using phones in class while 51% oppose it; 73% oppose a full-day ban (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-1-14 Ban

Pentagon Device Linked To Havana Syndrome (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Pentagon

Stranded and uninvestable: Venezuela's oil prospects (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-1-14 Venezuela

Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-14 AI Apple

Meta Closes Three VR Studios As Part of Its Metaverse Cuts (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 VR

Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Iran SpaceX

Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Senate

Israeli tanks target area near Spanish peacekeepers in Lebanon – UN (www.rt.com)
2026-1-14 Israel Spain Lebanon

Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14

Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Layoffs

Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-14 Google Apple

Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia's H200 chips and AMD's MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Nvidia AMD

Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 IPO Mobile

Ukraine's army targeted in new charity-themed malware campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14 Ukraine

Wine 11.0 Released (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14

Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (research.google)
2026-1-14 Google AI

JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome/Chromium Code (slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Chrome

Bookshelf: China may not be a superpower (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-1-14 China

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