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Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling

Google is appealing a federal court's decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to ...

5dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath , a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Elon Musk first sued OpenAI in February 2024. Despite ...

6dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Democrats push FTC to investigate Trump Mobile

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged "false advertising and deceptive practices" fro...

Jan 15The VergePoliticsImpact

Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability

Sony’s WH-1000XM6 are among the wireless headphones affected by the Fast Pair vulnerability. Several Bluetooth audio devices from companies like Sony, Anker, and Nothing are susceptible to a new flaw ...

6dThe VergeTechnology

At least 5 dead after two Spanish high-speed trains collide in Cordoba

At least five people have died and several have been injured after the derailment of an Iryo train with 300 passengers on board in Adamuz (Córdoba), which invaded the adjacent track and collided with ...

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Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide

The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent since just after noon ET, with phones sw...

Jan 14The VergeTechnologyImpact

Amazon is not happy with Saks

Amazon is putting up a fight over Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan. Scott Olson/Getty Images; Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images Amazon is pushing back against Saks Global's bankru...

Jan 15Business InsidereconomicsImpact

Bypassing Gemma and Qwen safety with raw strings

OP here. I spent the weekend red-teaming small-scale open weights models (Qwen2.5-1.5B, Qwen3-1.7B, Gemma-3-1b-it, and SmolLM2-1.7B). I found a consistent vulnerability across all of them: Safety alig...

3dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Student-loan borrowers behind on payments now have more time to figure out a plan — and protect their tax refunds

Some student-loan borrowers are at risk of having their tax refunds seized this year. Allison Robbert/For The Washington Post via Getty Images The Education Department temporarily paused seizure of ta...

4dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

NATO allies move troops to Greenland in European military mission

Troops from several European countries, including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, are arriving in Greenland to help boost the Arctic island's security after talks between representatives of Denmar...

Jan 15France 24PoliticsImpact

Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

I'm Dan, and I built a CLI that lets AI agents design in Figma. What it does: 100 commands to create shapes, text, frames, components, modify styles, export assets. JSX importing that's ~100x faster t...

4dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Trump says he won't use force in Greenland "but unclear what deal would pass"

US President Donald Trump insisted he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but said he wouldn’t employ force to achieve that, only a few days after threatening several Europ...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Point72 sells off stakes of fintech startups to Goldman Sachs and others

Steve Cohen is the owner of the New York Mets. Joe Raedle/Getty Images A new continuation vehicle has acquired stakes in Point72's fintech startups, a press release states. The new fund raised $280 mi...

Jan 14Business InsidereconomicsImpact

Judge sets trial date for Musk vs Altman showdown

Elon Musk (L) and Sam Altman Getty/BI composite A trial date has been set in Elon Musk's fraud case against Sam Altman. The case is set to go before an Oakland federal jury in April and is expected to...

Jan 13Business InsiderTechnology

As Vietnam’s US trade surplus overtakes China, Trump replaces envoy to fix ‘imbalance’

The Trump administration plans to ‌replace the US ambassador to Vietnam with a nominee set on addressing “imbalanced” trade relations, as Hanoi’s goods trade surplus ‍with Washington surpassed China’s...

Jan 13South China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf]

OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I coul...

6dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

China-founded Shanda’s AI lab boosts Singapore operation, pulling research from China

Frontier research lab MiroMind, a subsidiary of the China-founded multinational firm Shanda Group, has asked some of its staff in Shanghai to relocate to Singapore, according to people with knowledge ...

1dSouth China Morning PostTechnologyImpact

Musk’s Grok barred from undressing AI images after global backlash

Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women...

Jan 15South China Morning PostTechnologyImpact

Taiwan and the US launch joint production of 155mm artillery shells amid blockade fears

Taiwan has begun co-producing 155mm (6.1-inch) artillery shells with the US, as the island moves to strengthen wartime ammunition resilience amid Beijing’s escalating military pressure and concern ove...

Jan 13South China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

The best budget smartphone you can buy

You can get a great budget device these days if you know how to pick your priorities. | Image: The Verge Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. T...

Jan 15The VergeTechnology
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