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Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.
2026-01-10 12:54 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices
2026-01-08 21:49 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites
2026-01-10 00:53 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
Measles continues raging in South Carolina; 99 new cases since Tuesday
2026-01-09 22:52 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
2026-01-10 18:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu says the smart glass maker, which has a $1B+ valuation, recently raised $100M from "supply chain partners" and other backers (Bloomberg)
2026-01-10 05:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)
2026-01-10 02:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
2026-01-10 07:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoes legislation meant to enforce the EU's DSA in Poland, arguing it would grant excessive powers to government officials (Wojciech Kość/Politico)
2026-01-10 00:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal document: Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks employees' office attendance and how many hours they spend there, after its RTO mandate (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
2026-01-10 06:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic adds safeguards to prevent third-party apps, like OpenCode, from spoofing Claude Code to access Claude models for more favorable pricing and limits (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
2026-01-10 00:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
2026-01-10 05:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
2026-01-10 01:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users (Bloomberg)
2026-01-10 04:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B (Reuters)
2026-01-10 06:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters)
2026-01-10 15:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more (The Substack Post)
2026-01-10 07:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same as in 2008; Stack Overflow now primarily makes money from enterprises and licensing (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)
2026-01-10 11:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18-44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
2026-01-10 17:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026
2026-01-08 17:48 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
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