THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [13 January] - Hackers News
12 Best Cat Water Fountains, WIRED Tested and Reviewed (2025) - Wired
19 Fancy Gadgets That Won't Leave You Broke - Wired
4 things that could get me to swing for a Pixel 10 over an iPhone - Pocket Lint
5 Key Trends Defining 2025 & How to Adapt for Business Growth - Itnewsafrica
A 24-year-old who exited his first company to Coinbase, raises $3M for his next venture - Techcrunch
A breach of a data broker's trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions - Techcrunch
A founder's personal assets as collateral for failure: Lessons from China's startup ecosystem - Techcabal
A look at Troodi, a mental health chatbot built by AI startup Elomia Health for Troomi's child-focused phones, with thousands of teen users across the US (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's underlying tech - Techcrunch
A report on CES 2025: tech giants were mostly absent, Nvidia's keynote was a big event, AI experimentation, supply chains adapting to geopolitics, and more (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software) - Techmeme
After Years of USB Word Salad, New Labels Strip Everything But the Speed - Slashdot
AI Financial Advisers Target Young People Living Paycheck to Paycheck - Wired
Amazon Prime will shut down its clothing try-on program - The Verge
Anker's display-equipped wall charger from CES is already on sale - The Verge
Apple board pushes against diversity rollback call - BBC
Apple loses share of smartphone sales to Chinese android makers Xiaomi, Vivo, others in 2024 - Technext
Apple's iPad mini 7 is $100 off right now - Engadget
Awesome Games Done Quick raises another $2.5 million for a cancer nonprofit - Engadget
Biden admin snubs Tesla's $100 million big-rig charging funding request ' again - Techcrunch
Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips - Techcrunch
Biden proposes new export controls on GPUs targeting China - Engadget
Blue Origin delays launch of New Glenn mega-rocket - Techcrunch
Blue Origin Livestreams - But Postpones - Its First Orbital Rocket Launch - Slashdot
Blue Origin Livestreams What's Potentially Its First Orbital Rocket Launch - Slashdot
Britain Seeks to Build a Homegrown OpenAI Rival, Become a World Leader in AI - Slashdot
Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem - Engadget
CES 2025: Self-driving cars were everywhere, plus other transportation tech trends - Techcrunch
Clearwater agrees to buy investment management platform Enfusion for $1.5B - Techcrunch
Clearwater Analytics agreed to acquire Enfusion, a SaaS provider for hedge funds and investment managers, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.5B (Ryan Lawler/Axios) - Techmeme
CMC Networks Appoints New Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) - Itnewsafrica
Companies Deploy AI To Curb Hiring as 'Cost Avoidance' Gains Ground - Slashdot
CoreWeave, a $19B AI compute provider, opens its first international data centers in the UK - Techcrunch
Cross-border payments is at a crossroads with new innovations and challenges shaping global trade - Techpoint
Crypto payments platform MoonPay has acquired blockchain payment processor Helio, a source says for $175M (Eleanor Terrett/Fox Business) - Techmeme
DDR4 vs. DDR5 RAM: What's the Difference - Wired
Disney+ beats every other streaming service with this one feature - Pocket Lint
Donald Trump Jr. is joining prediction-market startup Kalshi as a strategic adviser; CFTC called Kalshi "an online casino" in a December filing (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
eBay acquires Caramel to reduce risk and complexity of online car sales - Techcrunch
Egypt's ReNile raises $450K - Technext
Ethiopia launches first stock exchange in 50 years - Techpoint
EU Probes Apple's New App Store Fees - Slashdot
Expired Domains Allowed Control Over 4,000 Backdoors on Compromised Systems - Hackers News
FBI Chief Warns China Poised To Wreak 'Real-World Harm' on US Infrastructure - Slashdot
FG to unlock $5bn annual funding for Nigerian startups with launch of Digital Trade Desk - Technext
Fintechs rule: Moniepoint, Tyme, others raised 47% of $2.2bn African startup funding in 2024 - Technext
Float Financial, which aims to be the Brex of Canada, lands US$48.5M Series B - Techcrunch
From Drop to Boom: 4 Coins Ready for a 500% Rise During Bitcoins Bullish January! - Techpoint
Germany Hits 62.7% Renewables in 2024 Electricity Mix, with Solar Contributing 14% - Slashdot
Ghost Jobs Haunt Online Listings - Slashdot
Global smartphone shipments grew 4% YoY in 2024 after a decade-low in 2023; top two brands, Samsung and Apple, were mostly flat, while Xiaomi grew 12% YoY (Counterpoint Research) - Techmeme
Google Country Director for East Africa Agnes Gathaiya Leaves After 4+ Years - TechMoran
Groww, India's biggest trading app, prepares for IPO - Techcrunch
Hackers Exploit Aviatrix Controller Vulnerability to Deploy Backdoors and Crypto Miners - Hackers News
Holiday shoppers spent a record $1.2tn online, Salesforce data shows - Technext
How Fintech is Changing: Insights from Clinton Leask of Pay@ - Itnewsafrica
How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone - The Verge
How to watch Blue Origin's inaugural New Glenn launch - Engadget
How Watch Duty's wildfire tracking app became a crucial lifeline for LA - The Verge
A case study of the amount and kinds of ads in 12 shows on the ad-supported tiers of Netflix, Peacock, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Hulu (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News) - Techmeme
A look at Apple's plans for 2025, a year likely to be seen as a stepping stone toward more revolutionary products, rather than one of remarkable innovation (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A look at Watch Duty, a free app that has become a crucial lifeline for LA during the wildfires by showing active fires, evacuation zones, and other vital info (Abigail Bassett/The Verge) - Techmeme
A survey finds that global banks could cut as many as 200K jobs in the next three to five years as AI encroaches on tasks currently carried out by human workers (William Shaw/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A UK trial in the 1.5B class action suit against Apple is set to begin on Monday over allegations that the company levies "excessive and unfair" App Store fees (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Airtel Africa Announces CFO Transition: Jaideep Paul to Retire in July - Itnewsafrica
Amazon Prime will no longer let clothes shoppers 'try before you buy' after this month - Engadget
An interview with Arkady Volozh, CEO of Nebius, formerly Yandex NV, on selling Yandex's Russian business in 2024, competing with US AI startups, and more (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Apple board opposes proposal to abolish DEI programs - Techcrunch
Apple may add an iPhone Air to its lineup - Techcrunch
As Amazon Prime Video wraps up its third season streaming NFL games, a look at its use of AI and "Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats" during broadcasts (Joe Reedy/Associated Press) - Techmeme
As researchers talk about the arrival of supersmart AI, far fewer voices are trying to envision and articulate what a world awash in AI might actually look like (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing) - Techmeme
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Transfer Legacy PHP Code to a Modern Framework - Slashdot
Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait predicts AI's impact on journalism: jobs will change, not vanish, reporting and breaking news will remain valuable, and more (John Micklethwait/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
California's Wildfires Still Burn. Prison Inmates Join the Fight - Slashdot
California's Wildfires: Livestreams from Burning Homes and Dire Text Messages - Sometimes Erroneous - Slashdot
CES 2025: The best tech and gadgets we saw in Las Vegas - Engadget
Enron.com Announces Pre-Orders for Egg-Shaped Home Nuclear Reactor - Slashdot
Ethiopia Inaugurates First Stock Exchange - Itnewsafrica
Ford's EV Sales Spiked 34.8% in 2024. Electric 'Mustang Mach-E' Outsells Gas-Powered Mustangs - Slashdot
Fortnite Festival adds local co-op so you can relive the glory days of Rock Band and Guitar Hero - Engadget
Futurist Predicts AI-Powered 'Digital Superpowers' by 2030 - Slashdot
Google Wants to Track Your Digital Fingerprints Again - Slashdot
Here are the five best pieces of founder advice I learned as a host of Found - Techcrunch
How aligning with Trump's new administration lets Meta and X pivot from futile cooperation with the EU and other jurisdictions to confrontation and coercion (David Allen Green/Financial Times) - Techmeme
How Roku uses AI - Pocket Lint
How to organize your Prime Video library - Pocket Lint
How to permanently save items to the clipboard in Windows - Pocket Lint
How to turn off Apple Intelligence-powered notification summaries - Techcrunch
How to use instagram vanish mode - Pocket Lint
JPMorgan Chase Disables Employee Comments After Return-to-Office Backlash - Slashdot
Malaysia's economy minister Rafizi Ramli says the country anticipates a surge in investment from Chinese tech companies as Beijing braces for more US tariffs (Owen Walker/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Meta's fact-checking pivot may fuel disinformation and threaten hundreds of jobs in Africa - Techcabal
NAMA critical to air safety in Nigeria ' Aviation Perm Sec - Tribune
New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered - Wired
Open source licenses: Everything you need to know - Techcrunch
Our unofficial, silly and meaningless CES 2025 awards, just for fun - Engadget
Panasonic Z95A OLED TV Review: Searing Brightness and Colors - Wired
Researchers open source Sky-T1, a 'reasoning' AI model that can be trained for less than $450 - Techcrunch
Roborock at CES 2025: Rocking a new era with AI-powered innovation - Pocket Lint
Should In-Game Currency Receive Federal Government Banking Protections - Slashdot
Some advertisers raise brand safety concerns over Meta's content moderation changes, fearing a surge in harmful content and misinformation on its platforms (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg faces less friction in making broad policy changes after Meta's layoffs in 2022 and 2023, which hit much of its civic integrity teams (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) - Techmeme
The Best Automated Espresso, Latte, and Cappuccino Makers (2025) - Wired
These 5 wacky phone concepts are the future of mobile - Pocket Lint
This clever app unexpectedly became my note-taking default - Pocket Lint
This year could bring the iPhone Air and an entry-level iPad with Apple Intelligence - Engadget
Three New Superconductive Materials Were Discovered in 2024 - Slashdot
TikTok, Facing a US Ban, Is Also Waging Legal Battles Around the World - Slashdot
Tim Sweeney says Big Tech leaders, who used to pretend to be Democrats, are now pretending to be Republicans to skirt antitrust laws and "crush competitors" (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer) - Techmeme
UK's tech secretary says its Online Safety Act is "not up for negotiation," after Zuckerberg vowed to work with Trump to pressure countries "censoring" content (Michael Savage/The Guardian) - Techmeme
US export controls may have slowed China's AI progress but they also spurred DeepSeek to innovate and release DeepSeek-V3, a top LLM, without the latest chips (Tyler Cowen/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
What's behind ballooning video game budgets - Techcrunch
Why the FSF is Structured the Way It Is - Slashdot
Will Bitcoin Stay Below 100K' Bulls Battle Bears For BTC Price Dominance as JetBolt Rockets - Itnewsafrica
WordPress.org Accounts Deactivated for Contributors Said to Be Planning a Fork - by Automattic CEO - Slashdot