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These are the daily tech headlines for Wednesday, January 7, 2026. I'm Jen Kutter at CES 2026. Bloomberg reports Samsung's global marketing head Wanjin Lee indicated the tight memory availability due to increased demand from a is causing Samsung to consider repricing products to compensate. A Reuters story from November 2025 reported Samsung Electronics raised prices of certain memory chips up to 60% compared to September 2025. As an example, 32GB DDR5 increased to $239, up from $149. Other tech companies including Dell, Lenovo, Asus and more, also indicated price hikes due to increased memory costs. In 2025, Amazon launched the Buy for Me feature, beginning a test with select users of the Amazon Shopping app to complete purchases from third party retailers not participating within Amazon's platform. Results from online stores outside Amazon show up in regular searches and AI handles the ordering process. Modern Retailer Reports Small businesses are experiencing issues with orders coming in from Amazon, including Amazon, listing products never offered by their business. Retailers express frustration the Amazon program requires a manual opt out request from businesses rather than opt in. Online gaming platform Roblox is instituting the age check in all regions where chat is available after first rolling out the mandatory step in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands in December. Facial scan results processed by Persona, the same company Reddit uses for age checking and can be appealed with verification by id. Roblox will use the age determination to permit chatting with users in their age range, as well as a single group above and below. Users 9 to 12 years old can chat with each other, the under 9 group and the 13 to 15 year old group. Roblox notes. 50% of daily active users in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands have completed the verification process so far. On Tuesday, Universal Music Group partnered with Nvidia to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation and engagement and for advancing human music creation and rights holder compensation, which includes identifying copyrighted works used in AI. The partnership will collaborate on Nvidia's Music Flamingo AI model, launched in November 2025, which analyzes music with metrics including structure, harmony, lyrics and elements of music theory. The United States Food and Drug Administration updated guidance regarding wearable tech and healthy lifestyle apps. FDA Commissioner Marty Macquarie told Fox Business that devices and software offering only information will not require regulation. Wellness tools like fitness apps and trackers not claiming to be able to diagnose or treat health conditions will be considered non Medical in 2024. The FDA warned Whoop, a fitness bandmaker, that the blood Pressure Insights feature pushed the band closer to a medical device by estimating systolic and diastolic values generally used to diagnose hypertension, according to Bloomberg. Sources say. Messaging platform Discord confidentially filed for an initial public offering, but may yet decide not to go forward with the plan. In March 2025, Bloomberg reported, Discord was working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase on the potential IPO. A spokesperson for Discord declined to comment on the matter specifically, only sharing that the company is focused on user experience and building a sustainable business. And reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi discovered an in message game available on an internal prototype of Meta's threads. Existence of the game was confirmed to TechCrunch as in development and not yet publicly available. The in message basketball game features a swipe to shoot screen and friends can compete for high scores. Back in 2024, a secret emoji game was added to Instagram, accessible through direct messages by sending an emoji then clicking on it. The emoji game is similar to Pong. Players have to keep a bouncing emoji of their choice in play and Instagram keeps track of scores within the dm. For more discussion on the Tech News of the day, subscribe to the Daily Tech news show@dailytechnewshow.com where you can also find the show notes and links to every headline. Please remember to rate and review daily tech headlines on your podcast service of choice from everyone here at Daily Tech Headlines. Thanks for listening.