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A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
2026-01-13 08:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
2026-01-13 07:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
2026-01-13 09:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt)
2026-01-13 06:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Luminar lines up $22 million bidder for its lidar business
2026-01-12 16:01 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Meta hires former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair
2026-01-12 15:01 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Netflix had a huge night at the 2026 Golden Globes with 7 wins
2026-01-12 17:02 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Deconstructing the LuaJIT Pseudo Memory Leak
2026-01-13 12:05 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager
2026-01-12 21:02 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda
2026-01-11 20:58 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (Mike Solana/Pirate Wires)
2026-01-13 03:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it "would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive" (Reuters)
2026-01-13 04:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 04:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Balderton cashed out ~$2B of its Revolut stake in the past year, turning an early £1M bet into a historic European VC win; its fifth fund returned 25x (Financial Times)
2026-01-13 06:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Harmattan AI raises $200M Series B led by Dassault Aviation, becomes defense unicorn
2026-01-12 14:01 - https://techcrunch.com/feed/
 
Data Exfiltration via DNS Resolution
2026-01-13 11:04 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
2026-01-13 11:04 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
The oceans just keep getting hotter
2026-01-11 12:57 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
2026-01-13 00:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
2026-01-12 23:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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