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Microsoft CEO: Time To Move 'Beyond the Arguments of Slop vs Sophistication'

msmash / slashdot - The tech industry needs to move "beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication" and develop a new "theory of the mind" that accounts for humans now equipped with "cognitive amplifier tools," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a year-end reflection blog…

#ai #automation #ml #techpolicy #microsoft #aiethics #genai #business #jobs #technology

Satya Nadella starts blogging about AI, wants to move the conversation beyond "slop"

2 months / techspot

Microsoft's Risky Bet That Windows Can Become The Platform for AI Agents

2 months / slashdot / EditorDavid

"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession

2 months / reddit / /u/Ha8lpo321

Microsoft CEO: Time To Move 'Beyond the Arguments of Slop vs Sophistication'

2 months / slashdot / msmash

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop

2 months / reddit / /u/aacool

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadell becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

2 months / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Microsoft CEO Defends AI, Urges Critics to Move Beyond ‘Arguments of Slop’ - SE7EN.ws

2 months / se7en

Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026

2 months / reddit / /u/ZacB_

AI reality check: Why IT leaders must get practical

2 months / informationweek / Rikki Singh

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 8:20 pm / permalink 17440 / 9 stories in 2 months


Rumor: OpenAI’s New ‘Audio-Based’ Device Could Arrive Very Soon

Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - OpenAI is betting on voice over screens, ramping up audio AI ahead of a new kind of personal device.The post Rumor: OpenAI’s New ‘Audio-Based’ Device Could Arrive Very Soon appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #hardware #innovation #voice #openai #genai #chatgpt #technology #assistant #gadgets

OpenAI Accelerates Audio Roadmap for 2026

2 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

OpenAI's First Device Is a Pen!?

2 months / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

OpenAI Taps Foxconn to Build Jony Ive's AI Device, Drops Chinese Supplier [Report]

2 months / iclarified

OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

2 months / reddit / /u/NISMO1968

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2 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

who the fuck asked for this no really arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/o...

2 months / bsky / @chronosschiron.bsky.social / chronosschiron.bsky.social

OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

2 months / arstechnica / Samuel Axon

Rumor: OpenAI’s New ‘Audio-Based’ Device Could Arrive Very Soon

2 months / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

OpenAI’s Future AI Device May Be About the Size of an iPod Shuffle

2 months / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

OpenAI Improving Audio AI Models Ahead of Introduction of Personal AI Devices

2 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 17433 / 10 stories in 2 months


Bitfarms Exits Latin America with $30M Sale as Stock Jump 11%

Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Bitfarms sold its 70 MW Paso Pe site in Paraguay to Sympatheia Power Fund for up to $30 million. This sale completes Bitfarms’ full exit from Latin America, ending all regional operations and ownership. CEO Ben Gagnon confirmed plans to reinvest proc…

#ai #blockchain #crypto #business #datacenter #bitcoin #supercomputers #mining #latinamerica #technology

Bitfarms Exits Latin America with $30M Sale as Stock Jump 11%

2 months / parameter / Maxwell Mutuma

Bitfarms exits LatAm with $30 million Paraguay site sale amid North American AI/HPC push

2 months / theblock / Kyle Baird

Bitcoin miner Bitfarms exiting Latin America with $30M sale of Paraguay site

2 months / coindesk / Jamie Crawley

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 12:20 pm / permalink 17429 / 3 stories in 2 months


Ukrainian soldier's M1 MacBook Air takes direct shrapnel hit, still works despite battle damage — screen cracked and letter 'K' missing but laptop remains functional

tomshardware - An Apple M1 MacBook Air took a shell shrapnel hit and survived, with the laptop still working despite damage to the screen and the letter K on the keyboard missing.

#hardware #apple #defensetech #ukraine #macos #macbook #technology #gadgets #durability #arm

Ukrainian soldier's M1 MacBook Air takes direct shrapnel hit, saving his life — screen cracked and letter 'K' missing but laptop remains functional

2 months / reddit / /u/Hob-999

Ukrainian soldier's M1 MacBook Air takes direct shrapnel hit, still works despite battle damage — screen cracked and letter 'K' missing but laptop remains functional

2 months / tomshardware

Battlefront MacBook Air takes a shelling in Ukraine and keeps on working

2 months / appleinsider

M1 MacBook Air’s Robust Build Stops An Artillery Shell Fragment, Saving A Ukrainian Soldier’s Life In The Process, With The Display Partially Working Too

2 months / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 17428 / 4 stories in 2 months


Pebble’s round smartwatch is getting a reboot

Jess Weatherbed / theverge - It's time to reboot another OG Pebble smartwatch - specifically, the round-faced Time Round, which is getting a follow-up more than a decade after its original launch. The new Pebble Round 2 improves upon its predecessor with longer battery life and a lar…

#hardware #mobiletech #innovation #wearables #business #technology #gadgets #watch

Pebble Round 2 revives the circular smartwatch after a ten-year gap, with a minimal bezel and a 1.3-inch color e-paper display.

2 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Pebble Revives Circular Smartwatch With New Bezel-Free Pebble Round 2 [Video]

2 months / iclarified

Pebble Round 2 cuts the bezel from the decade-old round smartwatch revival

2 months / appleinsider

Pebble Round 2 Brings Back Classic Smartwatch, Pre-Orders Now Open

2 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Pebble Revives and Revamps Its Short-Lived Circular Smartwatch https://gizmodo.com/pebble-revives-and-revamps-its-short-lived-circular-smartwatch-2000704903

2 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Pebble revives its iconic round smartwatch for the modern era

2 months / techspot

Pebble launches a $199 smartwatch with rounded screen that can last up to 2 weeks on one charge.

2 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Pebble reboots its thinnest smartwatch with the Pebble Round 2 https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/pebble-reboots-its-thinnest-smartwatch-with-the-pebble-round-2/

2 months / bsky / @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Pebble Revives and Revamps Its Short-Lived Circular Smartwatch

2 months / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

Pebble Unveils Round 2 At CES 2026

2 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Pebble Round 2 is a gorgeous revival of a classic with smarter display tech

2 months / digitaltrends

Pebble's Bringing Its Round Watch Back, This Time With Revamps

2 months / cnet / Scott Stein

Pebble brings its round-faced smartwatch back from the dead

2 months / engadget / Daniel Cooper

Pebble’s round smartwatch is getting a reboot

2 months / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

Pebble reboots its thinnest smartwatch with the Pebble Round 2

2 months / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 10:20 am / permalink 17425 / 15 stories in 2 months


Elon Musk's Grok AI posted CSAM image following safeguard 'lapses'

Steve Dent / engadget - Elon Musk's Grok AI has been allowing users to transform photographs of woman and children into sexualized and compromising images, Bloomberg reported. The issue has created an uproar among users on X and prompted an "apology" from the bot itself. "I deep…


Grok Safeguard Failures

Elon Musk's Grok under fire for generating explicit AI images of minors

2 months / axios / Josephine Walker

xAI admits that Grok generated images of minors in minimal clothing, part of a larger problem with deepfakes

2 months / mashable

Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After Posting Sexual Images Of Children

2 months / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

Grok's image editing tool generated sexualized images of children, forcing xAI to acknowledge safety gaps

2 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images

2 months / ft

Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children

2 months / cnbc

Elon Musk's Grok AI posted CSAM image following safeguard 'lapses'

2 months / engadget / Steve Dent

Grok Posts Sexual Images of Minors After ‘Lapses in Safeguards’

2 months / bloomberg / Olivia SolonMark Bergen


Public Reactions

xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

2 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger


Regulatory Backlash

Grok CSAM Deepfakes: India Threatens to Revoke xAI’s Immunity as France Opens Criminal Probe

2 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over “obscene” AI content

2 months / techcrunch / Jagmeet Singh

MeitY Issues Notice To X Over Alleged Misuse Of Grok For Sexually Explicit Content

2 months / inc42 / Lokesh Choudhary


User-Driven Exploitation

People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children

2 months / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger


All Other Stories

Malaysia, France, India Hit Out at X for ‘Offensive’ Grok Images

2 months / bloomberg / Anisah Shukry

Grok is undressing anyone, including minors

2 months / reddit / /u/HellYeahDamnWrite

winbuzzer.com/2026/01/02/g... Grok CSAM Deepfakes: India Threatens to Revoke xAI’s Immunity as France Opens Criminal Probe #AI #Deepfakes #Regulation #ElonMusk #xAI #Grok #CSAM #TechPolicy #India #France #OnlineSafety #GenAI

2 months / bsky / @winbuzzer.com / winbuzzer.com

People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children https://gizmodo.com/people-spent-the-holidays-asking-grok-to-generate-sexual-images-of-children-2000704919

2 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

This needs to happen in more countries and to any image service that’s indiscriminately generating CSAM (probably nonconsensual nudes too) techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/i...

2 months / bsky / @tcarmody.bsky.social / tcarmody.bsky.social

Everyone is reporting it, including the FT

2 months / bsky / @catiomiles.bsky.social / catiomiles.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot blamed “lapses in safeguards” for the recent posting of artificial intelligence-generated sexualized pictures of children in response to user questions.

2 months / bsky / @brunojnavarro.bsky.social / brunojnavarro.bsky.social

I am absolutely serious when I say that newsrooms need to adopt strict style guides for reporting on generative AI, to avoid implying sentience or agency. @cnbc.com are you listening?

2 months / bsky / @unchi.org / unchi.org

Another strange one here because they put an actual quote from a staff member below the quote from the chatbot www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m...

2 months / bsky / @alexpartridge87.bsky.social / alexpartridge87.bsky.social

"Grok says"

2 months / bsky / @tryangregory.bsky.social / tryangregory.bsky.social

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 10:20 am / permalink 17424 / 23 stories in 2 months


'Clicks Communicator' Unveiled — Will You Carry This With Your iPhone?

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - The company behind the BlackBerry-like Clicks Keyboard accessory for the iPhone today unveiled a new Android 16 smartphone called the Clicks Communicator.The purpose-built device is designed to be used as a second phone alongside your iPhone, with the int…


Clicks Communicator: Reinventing vintage phone communication

Two Phones, Less Distraction? That's the Pitch for This BlackBerry Lookalike

2 months / cnet / Julian Dossett

Clicks releases a phone for your phone, giving users a taste of BlackBerry

2 months / betakit / Alex Riehl

Clicks Communicator

2 months / ycombinator

The Clicks BlackBerry-Like Phone Keyboard Finally Makes Sense

2 months / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

'Clicks Communicator' Unveiled — Will You Carry This With Your iPhone?

2 months / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

The Clicks Communicator is a Blackberry for your phone

2 months / theverge / Allison Johnson


Clicks Power Keyboard: Tactile accessory with backup battery

Clicks has swapped iPhone keyboard cases for a new MagSafe keyboard battery

2 months / appleinsider

The Clicks Power Keyboard is also a backup battery for your phone

2 months / theverge / Allison Johnson


Dual Announcements: Combined smartphone and keyboard innovations

Clicks Unveils Communicator Smartphone as an iPhone Companion, Plus New MagSafe Keyboard [Video]

2 months / iclarified

Clicks Takes Its iPhone Keyboard to the Next Level

2 months / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

★ Clicks Communicator and Clicks Power Keyboard

2 months / daringfireball / John Gruber

Clicks Goes All-In on Buttons With a New Keyboard and a Second Phone

2 months / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Clicks is bringing a BlackBerry-style phone and a pocket keyboard to CES 2026

2 months / digitaltrends

Turning your phone into a old school BlackBerry just got easier

2 months / pocket-lint / John Kanellakos

Clicks is bringing its first smartphone and a new keyboard to CES 2026

2 months / engadget / Andre Revilla

Meet Clicks Communicator & Power Keyboard: Tools for Action

2 months / reddit / /u/MoonStache

Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard

2 months / techcrunch / Sarah Perez


All Other Stories

Clicks is leaning harder into tactile nostalgia, unveiling a MagSafe-compatible keyboard with battery and its own Android phone.

2 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

The Clicks BlackBerry-Like Phone Keyboard Finally Makes Sense https://gizmodo.com/the-clicks-blackberry-like-phone-keyboard-finally-makes-sense-2000704812

2 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

The company behind the add-on mobile keyboards with physical buttons is now doing its own phone.

2 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 17423 / 20 stories in 2 months


LG says that it’s launching the world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop — also announces 16-inch ultra-portable laptop with 'dual-AI' functionality

tomshardware - LG announced a 17-inch laptop that fits in the form factor of a 16-inch model while still sporting an RTX 5050 discrete GPU.

#hardware #mobiletech #gaming #nvidia #gpu #performance #technology #gadgets

LG’s new Gram lineup brings the world’s lightest laptop with Nvidia RTX graphics

2 months / digitaltrends

LG made up a new word for its next ultralight Gram laptops: 'Aerominum'

2 months / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

LG says that it’s launching the world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop — also announces 16-inch ultra-portable laptop with 'dual-AI' functionality

2 months / tomshardware

LG announces the ‘world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop’

2 months / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

LG Introduces 2026 LG Gram Laptop Lineup, Featuring World’s Lightest 17-inch RTX Laptop

2 months / wccftech / Sarfraz Khan

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 8:20 am / permalink 17419 / 5 stories in 2 months


Samsung unveils Freestyle+ projector ahead of CES 2026

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Samsung announced the Freestyle+ portable projector ahead of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, upgrading its predecessor with 430 ISO lumens brightness and AI OptiScreen screen optimization features. The Freestyle+ delivers twice the brightness of previous Freestyle…

#ai #mobiletech #innovation #samsung #genai #technology #gadgets #tv

Samsung's new Freestyle+ will be twice as bright, but one big question remains

2 months / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Samsung's New AI-Powered Portable Projector Comes For Your TV

2 months / bgr

Samsung’s Freestyle+ projector will bring a brighter picture to your movie nights

2 months / digitaltrends

Samsung unveils Freestyle+ projector ahead of CES 2026

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

(PR) Samsung Unveils the Freestyle+ Ahead of CES 2026, a Smart Portable Screen

2 months / techpowerup

Samsung adds much needed brightness to its Freestyle projector

2 months / theverge / Thomas Ricker

Back to Top / Friday, January 2, 2026, 6:20 am / permalink 17417 / 6 stories in 2 months


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