{"id":5037,"date":"2026-01-20T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:30:44","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-january-18th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-january-18th-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 January 18th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>SpaceX didn&#8217;t properly inspect crane before collapse at Starbase, OSHA says &#8211; TechCrunch | <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/20\/spacex-didnt-properly-inspect-crane-before-collapse-at-starbase-osha-says\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Netflix to pay all cash for Warner Bros. to fend off Paramount hostile takeover &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/01\/netflix-to-pay-all-cash-for-warner-bros-to-fend-off-paramount-hostile-takeover\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sony is giving TCL control over its high-end Bravia TVs &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/01\/tcl-to-gain-majority-ownership-over-sonys-bravia-tvs\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google and Epic Games strike secretive $800 million deal &#8211; 9to5 Google | <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/22\/google-epic-games-deal-court-reveal\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>TikTok closes deal to split US app from global business &#8211; BBC | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3edd1l328lo\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tata Communications Appoints Ganesh Lakshminarayanan as New CEO-Designate, ETTelecom | <a href=\"https:\/\/telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/enterprise-services\/tata-communications-appoints-ganesh-lakshminarayanan-as-new-ceo-designate\/127090879\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft\u2019s first Windows 11 update of 2026 has been a mess &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/867647\/microsoft-windows-11-january-2026-update-bugs-issues\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Amazon cuts 16,000 corporate jobs amid efforts to develop AI &#8211; SAN | <a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/amazon-cuts-16000-corporate-jobs-amid-efforts-to-develop-ai\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Genie | Experimenting with infinite interactive worlds\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YxkGdX4WIBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX didn&#8217;t properly inspect crane before collapse at Starbase, OSHA says &#8211; TechCrunch | Link Netflix to pay all cash for Warner Bros. to fend off Paramount hostile takeover &#8211; Ars Technica | Link Sony is giving TCL control over its high-end Bravia TVs &#8211; Ars Technica | Link Google and Epic Games strike secretive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}