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Techmeme - 2026-01-04T19:40:24-05:00

Plaud launches the $179 Plaud NotePin S AI recorder, similar to the $159 NotePin but with a button, alongside a new desktop app for recording meeting audio (Dominic Preston/The Verge) - 2026-01-04T19:40:01-05:00

US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for "exceptional" artists (Ian Hodgson/Financial Times) - 2026-01-04T17:20:01-05:00

How a crew of crypto-focused criminals moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors (Austin Carr/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-04T14:55:02-05:00

Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400M; Koi has raised $48M to date (Sophie Shulman/CTech) - 2026-01-04T12:25:00-05:00

Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds (Meir Orbach/CTech) - 2026-01-04T11:55:00-05:00

Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch (Scott Stein/CNET) - 2026-01-04T11:10:01-05:00

Xreal unveils the $449 1S, a pair of AR glasses with 1200p, 700 nits brightness, 52 degree FOV, and 16:10 aspect ratio; the 1S can convert any 2D video into 3D (Victoria Song/The Verge) - 2026-01-04T10:55:01-05:00

A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed "RNGD" is slated to enter mass production this month (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-01-04T08:00:14-05:00

Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times) - 2026-01-04T02:00:32-05:00

EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times) - 2026-01-04T01:10:01-05:00

Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian) - 2026-01-04T00:55:01-05:00

Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, "designed for intentional living", in November (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) - 2026-01-04T00:40:01-05:00

Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution (Natasha Singer/New York Times) - 2026-01-03T20:50:01-05:00

A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets (Herb Scribner/Axios) - 2026-01-03T16:50:03-05:00

A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations (Jared Perlo/NBC News) - 2026-01-03T15:35:00-05:00