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BBC

  1. PM's chief aide McSweeney quits over Mandelson row
  2. Why McSweeney's departure could prove perilous for the PM
  3. Andrew shared confidential information with Epstein as trade envoy, files suggest
  4. My car was stolen. Here are six important things I learned
  5. Dozens of flood warnings in England after days of non-stop rain
  6. Super Bowl countdown almost over as Patriots to face Seahawks
  7. Japan's PM Takaichi on course for landslide victory in snap election
  8. France murder trial complicated by twin brothers with same DNA
  9. Iranian Nobel laureate handed further prison sentence, lawyer says
  10. Man arrested for murder after student's death
  11. Vonn has surgery on leg fracture after crash
  12. GB snowboard star Brookes into big air final
  13. GB's medal hope Brookes starts campaign - Sunday's guide
  14. The political strategist who became Starmer's right-hand man
  15. I’m obsessed with bar livestreams. All the drama of a night out - from my sofa
  16. Fried chicken is booming in Britain - and fish and chips is losing out
  17. Pakistan's famous kite festival cautiously returns after 19-year ban
  18. It was a small budget series made in a month. But its fans helped it become a huge hit
  19. Thai PM claims election victory with conservatives well ahead of rivals
  20. Russia names three suspects in shooting of general
  21. Christchurch shooter seeks to overturn guilty plea
  22. Self-taught Welsh learner travels 4,000 miles to sit exam
  23. Flight to UK for turtle washed up in Storm Goretti
  24. BBC News app
  25. The week: the King, the prime minister and the Epstein files
  26. Children in Care: How to Fix the Fostering Crisis
  27. Michael B. Jordan leads in a powerful story of justice and redemption
  28. A timeless love story with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams
  29. 'Killjoy' - did VAR get late drama in Liverpool v Man City right?
  30. An almighty scare - but are England learning?
  31. Vonn has surgery on leg fracture after crash
  32. Man City produce late comeback to beat Liverpool in chaotic finale

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Engadget

  1. How to stream the 2026 Super Bowl for free tonight: Patriots vs. Seahawks time, where to watch Super Bowl LX, start time, halftime show and more
  2. AT&T's budget-friendly phone for kids was designed with parental controls in mind
  3. We may see Apple's new iPads and MacBooks in only a matter of weeks
  4. Steam now lets developers display the exact date of when their game leaves Early Access
  5. The iPhone 17e will reportedly bring some key upgrades without raising the price
  6. New York lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for three years
  7. DOJ is investigating if Netflix used anticompetitive tactics as part of its merger probe
  8. The State Department is scrubbing its X accounts of all posts from before Trump's second term
  9. Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone is apparently still coming, but it’ll be uglier and more expensive
  10. Analogue unearths N64 prototype colors for its limited edition 3D console
  11. NASA is sending Crew-12 astronauts to the ISS on February 11
  12. How to track your sleep and view your sleep data in Apple Health
  13. Engadget review recap: Shokz OpenFit Pro, Nex Playground, Sony A7 V and more
  14. Hotline Miami meets football, the power of video editing and other new indie games worth checking out
  15. How to watch the Opening Ceremony at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics rebroadcast tonight
  16. The Crypto.com guy bought AI.com (and a Super Bowl ad)
  17. Apple will reportedly allow third-party AI assistants in CarPlay
  18. Disney+ loses access to Dolby Vision in some European countries
  19. The new trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie shows Yoshi absolutely devouring a Magikoopa
  20. Noble Audio has released a USB-C Bluetooth dongle for high fidelity transmission
  21. Save up to 81 percent on ExpressVPN two-year plans right now
  22. The best live TV streaming services to cut cable in 2026
  23. The best tech gifts for $100 or less from Apple, Nintendo, Google and others
  24. Spotify now lets you swipe on songs to learn more about them
  25. Get a four-pack of first-gen AirTags for only $64
  26. Presidents' Day sales 2026: The best early tech deals from Apple, Sony, Roku and others
  27. Super Bowl 2026 TV deals: The best sales we found this week on OLEDs and other smart TVs ahead of kickoff
  28. NASA will now allow astronauts to take their smartphones to space
  29. Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery drops to an all-time-low price
  30. Olympics 2026: How to watch, schedule of events, and everything else you need to know about the Winter Games
  31. The 512GB Samsung P9 microSD Express card is 33 percent off right now
  32. Uber ordered to pay $8.5 million to passenger who accused a driver of rape
  33. Google will soon offer AirDrop support on more Android devices
  34. The Apple Watch Series 11 is down to a record-low price
  35. Ford shows off the tech going into its $30,000 electric pickup truck
  36. The latest 45W Anker Nano charger with smart display is on sale for only $30
  37. Apple reportedly axed its planned AI health coach
  38. Engadget Podcast: So there’s a social network for AI agents now
  39. EU says TikTok uses 'addictive design' and must change
  40. Sonos soundbars and home theater gear are up to 20 percent off right now
  41. HBO is making a Baldur's Gate 3 TV show
  42. The best VPNs with free trials in 2026
  43. Two years of NordVPN's Complete plan is 70 percent off
  44. The Morning After: The Switch is officially Nintendo’s most popular console ever
  45. The best mesh Wi-Fi systems of 2026
  46. X's latest Community Notes experiment allows AI to write the first draft
  47. NordVPN review 2025: Innovative features, a few missteps
  48. Everything we know about Valve's new Steam Machine
  49. Prime members can play Alan Wake 2 for free on Luna
  50. Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own

Pinboard

  1. My AI adoption journey
  2. Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes Anthropic — We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler, and then (mostly) walked away. Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development.
  3. Maple Mono
  4. It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres | Tiger Data — Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB, and time-series in one database.
  5. Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic — We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.
  6. sqldef
  7. GitHub - HKUDS/nanobot: "🐈 nanobot: The Ultra-Lightweight Clawdbot" — rnorth starred HKUDS/nanobot
  8. Owning a $5M data center: Data centers are cool, everyone should have one. (comma.ai) — These days it seems you need a trillion fake dollars, or lunch with politicians to get your own data center. They may help, but they’re not required. At comma we’ve been running our own data center for years. All of our model training, …
  9. DNS Explained - How Domain Names Get Resolved — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868803
  10. ReMemory - Split a recovery key among friends — This is a tool that encrypts files and splits the decryption key among trusted friends using Shamir's Secret Sharing. For example, you can give pieces to 5 friends and require any 3 of them to cooperate to recover the key. No single friend can access your data alone. Each fr…
  11. How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic
  12. Times New Resistance — Abby Haddican
  13. Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
  14. Context Engineering for Coding Agents — Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
  15. Vocal Guide - by Jesper Ordrup
  16. Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code! — "Things Unix can do atomically" #Unix #atomicity #atomic #concurrency
  17. mitchellh/vouch: A contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate. — https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349 ;;; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961 ;;;
  18. open source reimagining of civ iii
  19. (500) https://animatedengines.com/ — RT @newsycombinator: Animated Engines
  20. Stealing cable has evolved: the new face of TV piracy | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/H37kO4d
  21. It's FOSS: I Ditched Claude Code and Now Using Open Source Qwen AI for Real Sysadmin Work
  22. How to effectively write quality code with AI
  23. AntiRender - See Through The Architectural BS
  24. PsiACE/skills: A personal collection of agent skills reflecting my preferences and practices.
  25. The Programmer's Paradox: Systems Thinking
  26. Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex | OpenAI
  27. cottaging - gone_girl - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — Ilya was good at noticing things about people, and he was good at understanding them. Shane was not. That was okay. Shane had developed his own way of getting to know Ilya. It involved a lot of inane questions and, more importantly, no longer i…
  28. Welcome to the Room | Jeffrey Snover's blog — A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella
  29. The Everdeck: A Universal Card System – The Wrong Tools
  30. AI is Killing B2B SaaS | N’s Blog
  31. monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918254
  32. Documenti svelati: Big Tech ha puntato sull'addiction degli adolescenti — Documenti giudiziari parzialmente dischiusi nel processo del 2026 mostrano che Meta, Google, Snap e TikTok hanno progettato prodotti per creare dipendenza tra bambini e adolescenti, ignorando i danni noti. E‑mail interne, slide, deposizioni e report di…
  33. The Agent Skills Directory — Discover and install skills for AI agents.
  34. The Wyden Siren: Senator’s Cryptic CIA Letter Follows A Pattern That’s Never Been Wrong | Techdirt — "Wyden asks a specific question about surveillance. The intelligence community answers a slightly different question in a way that technically isn’t lying but is designed to mislead. Wyden calls them out. Eventually, the trut…
  35. Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad — No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
  36. From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface
  37. Kirkville - I Now Assume that All Ads on Apple News Are Scams — Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.
  38. Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
  39. Understanding Neural Network, Visually
  40. GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan
  41. dust bunnies - ghosttotheparty - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — “I’m right here. And you are okay, and you are safe, and healthy, and you are at home, yes? It is quiet, and nobody is there, nobody is bothering you. And the world is full of stupid idiots, but you are not one of them. And I am here. When you need m…
  42. Claude is a space to think | Anthropic Anthropic — Anthropic explains why Claude will remain ad-free—how advertising incentives conflict with building a genuinely helpful AI assistant users can trust.
  43. Moody — Your discreet notch prompter — Moody — Your discreet notch prompter https://ift.tt/MPm7NvQ
  44. commaai/minikeyvalue at prod — A distributed key value store in under 200 lines. Contribute to commaai/minikeyvalue development by creating an account on GitHub.
  45. Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
  46. GitHub - pgschema/pgschema: Terraform-style, declarative schema migration for Postgres
  47. Karel on X: "I spent $10,000 to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex" / X
  48. La Suite numérique
  49. GB Renewables Map
  50. As Rocks May Think | Eric Jang
  51. We mourn our craft | Read the Tea Leaves — A poignant reflection on the evolving landscape of creative work, offering insights into the challenges and potential futures of artistic professions. Return for a thoughtful perspective on preserving passion and skill in a changing world.
  52. A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs – PDF Association
  53. The World Factbook
  54. Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis | EV
  55. The Japanese ethics of ‘ningen’ dethrones the Western self | Aeon Essays — "In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature"
  56. Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? | Hacker News
  57. msgvault — New self-hosted email archive / search tool with a text UI and AI integration
  58. Save the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal’ in the Cohen Federal Building - The New York Times — Philip Guston
  59. Michael Tsai - Blog - LLMs and Software Development Roundup
  60. gavrielc/nanoclaw: My personal Claude assistant that runs in Apple containers. Lightweight, secure, and built to be understood and customized for your own needs. — My personal Claude assistant that runs in Apple containers. Lightweight, secure, and built to be understood and customized for your own needs. - gavrielc/nanoclaw
  61. Start all of your commands with a comma — This page looks good
  62. GitHub - openclaw/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 — via GitHub Public Timeline Feed
  63. Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell - CIA — emblematic of the admins anti-knowledge attitude
  64. Moltbook was peak AI theater | MIT Technology Review — The viral social network for agents reveals more about our own current mania for all things AI than what's really coming next.
  65. It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
  66. Sheldon Brown-Bicycle Technical Information
  67. Animated Knots
  68. The Agentic Commerce Revolution – O’Reilly — For 30 years, digital commerce has been a destination. We “go to” a website, a marketplace, or an app. In this single, bundled environment, we handle discovery, comparison, and checkout. The entire architecture of the web, from product pages to payment gateways, is built on this a…
  69. Carta de Pedro Sánchez sobre immigració al NY Times — I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. via Instapaper https://ift.tt/uYpEidZ Guest Essay Feb. 4, 2026 Credit...Juan Medina/Reuters Listen to this article · 5:12 min Learn more By Mr. Sánchez is the prime minister of Spain. He wrote from…
  70. Why I joined OpenAI — The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no other in history; it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet. I have joined OpenAI to work on this challenge directly, with an initial focus on ChatGPT performance. The scale is extr…
  71. Baby Girl - hoko_onchi, toomuchplor - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — Rose Landry is shooting yet another X-Squad sequel in Montreal this month, and they planned her visit to Shane and Ilya's place in Ottawa ages ago; it's just a weird coincidence that Shane is out for a few games with a shoulder st…
  72. Competence as Tragedy
  73. Hackers ( 1995 ) Animated Experience
  74. How did medieval French handwriting become “the Nazi font?” — And why did Hitler make it illegal?
  75. Ardour 9.0 | Hacker News — Writing Interactive Music for Video Games
  76. I miss thinking hard. — Before you read this post, ask yourself a question: When was the last time you truly thought hard? ... ... To explain the Thinker , I need to go back to my university days studying physics. Every now and then, we would get homework problems that were significantly harder than average. Even if you ha…
  77. The Coherence Premium — I don't necessarily believe in second brains. The notion (pun-intended) that you can offload your thinking to a perfectly organized system of notes and links has always struck me as a fantasy. The people I know who've built elaborate Notion databases or Obsidian vaults mostly end up with digital hoarding
  78. At a Bonobo’s ‘Tea Party,’ Scientists Find Hints of Imagination - The New York Times
  79. ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI | Global development | The Guardian
  80. Invention of DNA "Page Numbers" allows us to write long sequences of DNA with groundbreaking accuracy
  81. Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of my First Hardware Product
  82. The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier For Autonomous Driving Simulation
  83. Socialism After AI — Morozov argues that socialist attempts to harness AI have merely treated it like earlier tools of capitalist production—as a neutral instrument that can simply be redirected. In fact, he says,…
  84. Resonant Computing Manifesto
  85. Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System — Kevin Tracey, the pioneering neurosurgeon who discovered the connection, talks about the recent FDA approval for rheumatoid arthritis and where this is headed
  86. Trump’s Immigration Policy Is 100 Years Old - The New York Times
  87. Windows 11 Has Powerful Built-In Features Most Users Never Touch - gHacks Tech News — via gHacks https://ift.tt/cfOCFux
  88. "There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW - YouTube
  89. Adventure Game Studio
  90. Putin isn’t really winning. Europe needs to make that clear — Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain. To fight back, the ‘middle powers’ must work harder on their own story
  91. Pike and Boiziau, Amateur Detectives by gurlsrool (PG-13, 6,475 words) — Usually, Hayden can accept that Shane's private life is none of his business. When he’s at home waiting on four kids hand and foot, it’s not like he's filling his days making deranged cork boards connecting Shane to every gay man in North America. Bu…
  92. The Missing Layer — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898223
  93. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org — "Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer is a WordPress plugin designed to combat link rot—the gradual decay of web links as pages are moved, changed, or taken down. It automatically scans your post content—on save and across existing posts—…
  94. Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters | Substack | The Guardian
  95. Significant Find of Cambrian Explosion Fossils — A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower Cambrian (Stage 4, approximately 512
  96. Don't rent the cloud, own instead | Hacker News
  97. WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE - YouTube
  98. bruno - Fast, Git Friendly API Client
  99. https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ — The 954 most common RGB monitor colors, as defined by several hundred thousand participants in the xkcd color name survey.
  100. opus 4.6 system card

The Next Web

  1. Anthropic spent millions on Super Bowl ads to roast OpenAI
  2. UiPath pushes deeper into financial services with WorkFusion acquisition
  3. Europe’s social media age shift: Will tougher rules change how teens use the internet?
  4. TechEx Global returns to London with enterprise technology and AI execution
  5. QT Sense raises €4M to advance a quantum sensing platform
  6. Kembara closes €750M first close to fuel growth of European deep tech startups
  7. When the machines started talking to each other
  8. Snowflake and OpenAI forge $200M enterprise AI partnership
  9. SpaceX and xAI: A merger of ambition, optics, and unanswered questions
  10. OpenAI’s Codex app: When your IDE gets a brain

Smashing Magazine

  1. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  2. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  3. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  4. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  5. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  6. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  7. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  8. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  9. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  10. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  11. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  12. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  13. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
  14. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
  15. How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  16. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  17. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  18. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
  19. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
  20. Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
  21. Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
  22. A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  23. The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
  24. Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)
  25. Designing For Stress And Emergency
  26. Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects
  27. From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation
  28. CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers
  29. Older Tech In The Browser Stack
  30. Effectively Monitoring Web Performance
  31. Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties
  32. Six Key Components of UX Strategy
  33. How To Leverage Component Variants In Penpot
  34. Fading Light And Falling Leaves (November 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  35. JavaScript For Everyone: Iterators
  36. Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)
  37. AI In UX: Achieve More With Less
  38. How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore
  39. The Grayscale Problem
  40. Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With ``, ``, And CSS Media Queries

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Bluetooth Tracker
  2. The Best Platform Bed Frames Under $600
  3. We Have Exclusive Discounts on Some of Wirecutter’s Favorite Valentine’s Day Gifts, From Stylish Flowers to Slinky Sleepwear
  4. How Wirecutter’s Commerce Team Chooses Retailers
  5. The Best Headlamp
  6. The 5 Best Lip Glosses and Oils
  7. What We Recommend for Hot, Sweaty Sleepers
  8. What Couples Actually Get Each Other on Valentine’s Day
  9. These Silk Pillowcases Are an Affordable Bedtime Luxury. Just Don’t Expect Miracles.
  10. Need a New TV for Your Super Bowl Party? Several of Our Favorites Are on Sale.

Sweethome

  1. The Best Platform Bed Frames Under $600
  2. These Silk Pillowcases Are an Affordable Bedtime Luxury. Just Don’t Expect Miracles.
  3. How to Clean Blankets
  4. The Best Compact Washer and Dryer
  5. The Best Washing Machines (and Their Matching Dryers)
  6. The Best Showerhead
  7. Our Favorite Trinket Trays
  8. How to Clean a Showerhead
  9. Can This Dual Showerhead Help Couples Shower Together Comfortably?
  10. The Best Mattresses for 2026

Hacker News

  1. A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
  2. Vouch
  3. I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
  4. Voidtools Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
  5. The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
  6. Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens
  7. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books
  8. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models
  9. GitHub Agentic Workflows
  10. Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing
  11. RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001)
  12. Formally Verifying PBS Kids with Lean4
  13. Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot
  14. International Image Interoperability Framework
  15. Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
  16. Dave Farber has died
  17. Bun v1.3.9
  18. Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
  19. Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage
  20. A Community-Curated Nancy Drew Collection
  21. Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it
  22. OpenClaw is changing my life
  23. The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes
  24. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
  25. Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop
  26. Kolakoski Sequence
  27. Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600
  28. Why E cores make Apple silicon fast
  29. Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
  30. Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox

Ars Technica

  1. Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
  2. Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
  3. Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge
  4. Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case
  5. Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets
  6. Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine
  7. COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions
  8. Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars
  9. To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn's second stage reignites
  10. Driven: The 2026 Lamborghini Temerario raises the bar for supercars
  11. New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse
  12. Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy
  13. Lawmakers ask what it would take to "store" the International Space Station
  14. NASA stage show explores "outer" outer space with Henson's Fraggles
  15. EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design"
  16. Rocket Report: SpaceX probes upper stage malfunction; Starship testing resumes
  17. Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea
  18. AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
  19. The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)
  20. With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

Digg

New Scientist

  1. Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?
  2. Do weeds really love poor soil? Not if you look at the science
  3. Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer
  4. The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre's point
  5. Weakening ice shelf has caused crucial Antarctic glacier to accelerate
  6. Physicists warn of 'catastrophic' impact from UK science cuts
  7. The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing
  8. Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight
  9. Synchronised volcanic eruptions on Io hint at a spongy interior
  10. New Scientist recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
  11. Statins don't cause most of the side effects listed on their labels
  12. Moving inductions to early morning could shorten labour by 6 hours
  13. Sebastião Salgado's stunning shots of the world's icy regions
  14. A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture
  15. Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards
  16. The toxic burden of pesticides is growing all around the world
  17. Methane surge in 2020 was linked to lower pollution during lockdowns
  18. Bonobo's pretend tea party shows capacity for imagination
  19. Fast-charging quantum battery built inside a quantum computer
  20. Nasal spray could prevent infections from any flu strain
  21. Vegan toddlers can grow at the same rate as omnivores
  22. How to live a meaningful life, according to science
  23. Why Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek
  24. Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic
  25. Holy prosociality! Batman makes people stand for pregnant passengers
  26. Psychedelic causes similar brain state to meditation
  27. A social network for AI looks disturbing, but it's not what you think
  28. Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials
  29. Forever chemical TFA has tripled due to ozone-preserving refrigerants
  30. Treating cancer before 3pm could help patients live longer
  31. Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder
  32. The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm
  33. Why did SpaceX just apply to launch 1 million satellites?
  34. Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area
  35. Ants attack their nest-mates because pollution changes their smell
  36. Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What are the risks?
  37. A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system
  38. It would be a mistake to rush into an under-16 social media ban
  39. Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain damage but no symptoms
  40. CRISPR grapefruit without the bitterness are now in development
  41. Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world
  42. The best new popular science books of February 2026
  43. Bored of snakes and ladders? Some maths can help bring back the fun
  44. Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised
  45. A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea
  46. The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it
  47. Can we genetically improve humans using George Church’s famous list?
  48. Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision – will it work?
  49. Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
  50. The best new science fiction books of February 2026
  51. How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmark in just 7 years
  52. Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions
  53. Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton
  54. Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'
  55. New Scientist recommends pioneering artist Ryoji Ikeda's new work
  56. The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret
  57. This virus infects most of us – but why do only some get very ill?
  58. This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-rate faeces
  59. Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives
  60. AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggressive breast cancer
  61. Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half to the environment
  62. Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warming place on Earth
  63. Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments
  64. How your health is being commodified by social media
  65. Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our world rubbing along
  66. Think of a card, any card – but make it science
  67. Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem
  68. We have a new way to explain why we agree on the nature of reality
  69. We're getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish
  70. Most complex time crystal yet has been made inside a quantum computer
  71. Amazon is getting drier as deforestation shuts down atmospheric rivers
  72. To halt measles' resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation
  73. Our brains play a surprising role in recovering from a heart attack
  74. Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool
  75. Menstrual pad could give women insights into their changing fertility
  76. The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures
  77. Termination shock could make the cost of climate damage even higher
  78. The 3 best ways to tackle anxiety, according to a leading expert
  79. Why did magic mushrooms evolve? We may finally have the answer
  80. SpaceX’s Starlink dodged 300,000 satellite collisions in 2025
  81. Embracing sauna culture can lower dementia risk and boost brain health
  82. How – and why – we chose the best 21 ideas of the 21st century
  83. Mars's gravity may help control Earth’s cycle of ice ages
  84. How to spot the lunar X and V
  85. Realising the importance of our microbiome: Best ideas of the century
  86. Embracing quantum spookiness: Best ideas of the century
  87. Let's nitpick about the physics of Stranger Things, not its ending
  88. Crowdsourcing Wikipedia’s encyclopedia: Best ideas of the century
  89. The totemic 1.5°C climate target: Best ideas of the century
  90. We can block the spread of HIV: Best ideas of the century
  91. Peter F. Hamilton's latest is an epic slice of sci-fi – with one flaw
  92. New Scientist’s guide to the 21 best ideas of the 21st century
  93. Bone cancer therapy unexpectedly makes tumours less painful
  94. We can rewrite our genetic code: Best ideas of the century
  95. Sea turtles may be more resilient to global warming than we thought
  96. The one diet that’s good for everything: Best ideas of the century
  97. The electrification of everything: Best ideas of the century
  98. Our solar system is extremely weird: Best ideas of the century
  99. Smartphones (yes, really): Best ideas of the century
  100. Why singing, dancing and engaging with art is good for your health

Slashdot

  1. Dave Farber Dies at Age 91
  2. After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement
  3. Prankster Launches Super Bowl Party For AI Agents
  4. Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom?
  5. Scientists Explored Island Cave, Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants a Lost World
  6. Cyber-Espionage Group Breached Systems in 37 Nations, Security Researchers Say
  7. Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
  8. Have We Been Thinking About Exercise Wrong for Half a Century?
  9. Are Big Tech's Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors?
  10. A New Era for Security? Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities
  11. The World's First Sodium-Ion Battery in Commercial EVs - Great at Low Temperatures
  12. Is the 'Death of Reading' Narrative Wrong?
  13. Waymo Reveals Remote Workers In Philippines Sometimes Advise Its Driverless Cars
  14. Good News: We Saved the Bees. Bad News: We Saved the Wrong Ones.
  15. Bitcoin Dropped Nearly 30% This Week. But Why?

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-2-26 to 2-6-26)
  2. Industrial Design Case Study: Nihaarika Arora's Jewelry Stand for the MoMA Design Store
  3.  Multi-Level Granny Cart Provides Way Better UX
  4. Industrial Design Student Work: Making Existing Bistro Chairs More Comfortable
  5. Jacob Turetsky: Artiform Design Founder Joins Core77 Design Awards Jury
  6. Smart Design for Tight Spaces: The U.S. Navy's Sit-Up Berths
  7. A Battery-Powered Tool That Makes Perfect Curbs in Concrete
  8. When Bad UI Design Kills: China Bans Flush Door Handles
  9. An Unusual Stool Design
  10. Taf Studio's Coat Hanger Made of Veneer
  11. Japan's Gran-Prix-Style Office Chair Racing Event
  12. A Futuristic, Physically Flexible Turnstile for Skiers, Snowboarders and Mountain Bikers
  13. From South Korea, an E-Bike with a Throwback 1950s Fairing
  14. From Belgium, Designey Concrete Pavers that Solve for Drainage
  15. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Aria Xiying Bao on Technology That Practices the Art of Noticing

CNET

  1. La Liga Soccer: Stream Valencia vs. Real Madrid Live From Anywhere
  2. When to Watch Bad Bunny's Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show and Preshow
  3. It's Time for Super Bowl 2026. Here's How to Stream the Patriots vs. Seahawks Tonight
  4. Best HDMI Cables in 2026
  5. AI Predicted the 2026 Super Bowl Teams. Can It Pick the Winner?
  6. Follow These Experts Tips to Hit Your Goal Of 10,000 Steps a Day
  7. When Is Puppy Bowl 2026? Details on How to Stream the Fuzzy Face-Off
  8. These Blood Types Are Most at Risk of Developing Heart Disease
  9. Premier League Soccer 2026: Stream Liverpool vs. Man City Live From Anywhere
  10. PSA: Changing Your IP Address Is Super Easy With a VPN
  11. I Have 11 Home Security Myths You Need to Memory Wipe
  12. iPhone 18: What We Know Right Now About Apple's Next Major Phone
  13. An Expert-Approved Strength Training and Cardio Routine That Will Get You Fit
  14. Peacock: 20 of the Best Movies to Stream Right Now
  15. RIP to the Traditional Baked Potato: This 12-Minute Nuke-and-Crisp Is Objectively Better
  16. 7 Sleep Alternatives That Work Better Than Melatonin
  17. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Feb. 8, #973
  18. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Feb. 8 #707
  19. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Feb. 8, #1695
  20. How to Keep Your Home Safe: Why Your Space Heater Needs Its Own Outlet
  21. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Feb. 8, #503
  22. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Feb. 8
  23. I Replaced All My Outdoor Lighting with Cheap Smart LED Strips — Here Are 5 Surprises
  24. AT&T Launches Its Own Kid Phone in Collaboration With Samsung, the AmiGo Jr.
  25. The Secret Behind The Pitt's Immersive Cinematography and Emmy Wins video

Reddit

The Verge

  1. New York is considering two bills to rein in the AI industry
  2. You need to listen to the new Mandy, Indiana record: URGH
  3. The iPhone 17e could launch soon with MagSafe and an A19 chip
  4. How I Built the Star Trek control panel of my dreams
  5. GuliKit’s tiny USB dongle lets you connect your PS5 controller to your Switch 2
  6. Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet
  7. Digital car keys are getting more sophisticated
  8. Netflix’s Warner Bros. merger puts rival streamers in survival mode
  9. Former Tumblr head Jeff D’Onofrio steps in as acting CEO at the Washington Post
  10. Super Bowl LX ads: all AI everything

Wired

  1. Best Wireless Earbuds (2026): Apple, Sony, Bose, and More
  2. The Shoes and Brooms Transforming Curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics
  3. 4 Best AI Notetakers (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  4. I Have Fallen in Love With Open Earbuds (and You Should Too)
  5. Best Vacuum Cleaner (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons
  6. For $4,550, Would You Buy a Single Premium Watch or a Swarm of Affordable Ones?
  7. Target Darts Omni Auto Scoring System Hits the Mark
  8. 4 Best Website Builders (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  9. Sony's Biggest QLED Screens See Big Discounts This Weekend
  10. The Technologies Changing How You’ll Watch the 2026 Winter Olympic Games
  11. The 7 Best Automatic Litter Boxes (2025) Our Cats Would Recommend
  12. Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data
  13. Gear News of the Week: Google's Pixel 10a Arrives Soon, and Valve Delays Its Steam Hardware
  14. Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Xplorer Grip Pro Kit Review: An Even Better Action Camera
  15. 7 Steps to Better Financial Health You Can Take Right Now
  16. ICE Agent’s ‘Dragging’ Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting
  17. RFK Jr. Has Packed an Autism Panel With Cranks and Conspiracy Theorists
  18. My Favorite TV to Watch the Winter Olympics Is on Sale
  19. I Tried What US Athletes Will Be Sleeping on at Milano Cortina
  20. New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause

LifeHacker

  1. How EU Regulators Might Change TikTok
  2. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  3. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  4. 10 Fitness Hacks Every Apple Watch User Should Know
  5. How to Create a Sleep Routine That's Perfect for You
  6. Is Virtual Reality Really Dead?
  7. These Bone Conduction Headphones Are Great for Outdoor Runs, and They're Just $90 Right Now
  8. It’s Fine, You Can Lift in Running Shoes
  9. This Substack Data Breach May Have Compromised Nearly 700,000 User Records
  10. That Political 'Call to Action' Might Actually Be a Scam
  11. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and You Can Get This Massive 98-Inch One for $800 Off Right Now
  12. Spotify Will Now Use AI to Tell You the Meaning Behind Your Favorite Songs
  13. AirDrop Is Coming to Even More Android Phones This Year
  14. I Tried Malwarebytes' ChatGPT App, and It's Actually Good at Detecting Scams
  15. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Is $200 Off Right Now
  16. Blink's Highly Rated Wired Floodlight Camera Is Just $45 Right Now
  17. How to Stream Super Bowl LX Without Cable
  18. This QLED TV Was Already Affordable, and Now It's an Extra $450 Off
  19. This One-Day Pass Is the Best Way to Catch a Major Sporting Event Without Cable
  20. Car Icons Are Disappearing From Google Maps in Android Auto (but You Might Be Able to Fix It)
  21. Apple's 'Lockdown Mode' Could Stop the Government From Breaking Into Your iPhone
  22. These Sony Over-Ear Headphones Come in Three Colors and Are Under $100 Right Now
  23. The Top 10 TV Series This Month, According to Streaming Data
  24. Redditors Have Figured Out a Way to Save Hundreds on a Whoop Subscription
  25. This LG Ultragear OLED Monitor Is 41% Off Right Now
  26. Spotify Wants to Be Your Bookstore
  27. This Owala Water Bottle Is My Health Upgrade of the Week
  28. The Best Budget ANC Earbuds Just Got Even Cheaper
  29. These New iPhone Features Are Coming in iOS 26.3
  30. This JBL Party Speaker Is on Sale for $600 Right Now
  31. This Highly Rated JBL Soundbar Is $280 Off Right Now
  32. How 'Exercise Snacking' Can Get You Into Working Out
  33. Everyone Can Now Use Alexa+, but the Full Experience Might Cost You
  34. That Text About a Suspicious Apple Pay Transaction Is Probably a Scam
  35. How to Avoid Paying Crunchyroll's Recent Price Increase
  36. The Newest Amazon Echo Show Has Dropped to Its Lowest Price Yet
  37. This Nothing Smartwatch With Built-In ChatGPT Is on Sale for $45 Right Now
  38. You Can Get a Fully Loaded Google Pixel 9 Pro for $600 Off Right Now
  39. Samsung Has Killed Software Support for Most of the Galaxy S21 Series
  40. Spotify Just Added Three New Lyrics Features, Including One I've Been Dying For
  41. ChatGPT Is Down (Again)
  42. The Best Amazon Echo Speaker Is $80 Right Now
  43. Messenger Apps Are Compressing Your Files, but There's a Workaround
  44. You Can 'Remap' Your PC's Copilot Key to Do Something Actually Useful
  45. The Top 10 Movies This Month, According to Streaming Data
  46. This High-End Roborock Robot Vacuum Is $300 Off Right Now
  47. These Bowers & Wilkins Bluetooth Headphones Are on Sale for $99
  48. These Switch 2 'Joy-Cons' Turn Your Handheld Into a Portable GameCube
  49. This Feature Lets You Autofill Your Credit Card on Any Site or App on iPhone
  50. How to Keep Your Gym Gear From Stinking
  51. What's the Difference Between the 'Surface Web' and the 'Deep Web'?
  52. YouTube Just Blocked This Popular Hack for Free Background Play
  53. This Is What You’ll Find the Best Deals on During This Year’s Presidents Day Sales
  54. That AT&T 'Rewards' Text Is a Scam
  55. 10 Hacks Every AirPods User Should Know
  56. The Newest Apple Watch Is $100 Off Right Now
  57. The Fast-Charging Pixel Watch 4 Is on Sale for $300
  58. The Perfect Time to Buy Valentine's Day Flowers Is Earlier Than You Think
  59. 15 Shows Like 'The Night Manager' You Should Watch Next
  60. The Best Last-Minute Valentine's Day Gift Ideas Under $30
  61. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Will the Midterm Elections Be Canceled?
  62. What Happened When a 'Ghost Student' Scammer Took Out Student Loans in My Name
  63. Google Shut Down Its Dark Web Monitoring Tool, so Here's What to Use Instead
  64. This QLED TV Packs Serious Brightness and Gaming Specs for Under $800
  65. This Roku Streaming Stick Is a Simple Upgrade, and It’s on Sale for $16 Right Now
  66. The Nintendo Switch 2 Can Handle AAA Games Better Than People Think
  67. I Tried Nintendo's New Virtual Boy Accessory for the Switch, and It Turned Me Into a Believer
  68. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Humans Are in a Dance Battle With AI Babies
  69. My Favorite Beats Headphones Are More Than Half Off
  70. Firefox Will Soon Let You Disable All Current (and Future) AI Features
  71. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in February
  72. Wordle Has a New Rule That Might Change Your Best Starting Word
  73. Everything We Know About Apple's Rumored Folding iPhone (and iPad)
  74. Google Pushed Back the Deadline on Migrating Your Fitbit Account (Again)
  75. Eight Useful Tool Accessories Every DIYer Should Own
  76. Apple Has a New Setting to Protect Your Location Data, but Not Everyone Can Use It
  77. My Favorite Thoughtful Valentine’s Day Gifts (That Aren’t Flowers)
  78. Is Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Actually Fake?
  79. Why You Shouldn't Buy a MacBook Pro Right Now
  80. Everything We Think We Know About the Samsung Galaxy S26 Series
  81. Sony’s Massive 85-Inch Bravia 5 Mini LED 4K TV Is $700 Off Right Now
  82. This Eufy Outdoor Camera Bundle Is $250 Off Right Now
  83. 10 Hacks Every Nintendo Switch (or Switch 2) Owner Should Know
  84. This Entry-Level Roborock Robot Vacuum Is 44% Off Right Now
  85. What to Expect the First Time You Go to the Gym
  86. You May Be Eligible for Part of This $10.5 Million Spam Text Settlement
  87. Nine Phone Settings to Change Before Attending a Protest
  88. This Space-Saving Sonos Soundbar Is $130 Off Right Now
  89. 'Moltbook' Is a Social Media Platform for AI Bots to Chat With Each Other
  90. How to Choose the Right Backup Generator for Your Home
  91. OpenAI Is Killing ChatGPT-4o (Again)
  92. 10 Hacks Every Safari User Should Know
  93. These Sweat-Proof JBL Earbuds Are 25% Off Right Now
  94. This Well-Reviewed Outdoor Camera Is Nearly 30% Off Right Now
  95. 10 Hacks Every Steam Deck Owner Should Know
  96. How YouTube Is Fighting Back Against AI Slop
  97. This QLED TV Is an Incredible Value, and It's 40% Off Right Now
  98. You Can Now Start a Group Chat in Spotify's DMs (for Some Reason)
  99. This Garmin's Battery Can Last 10 Days, and It's $100 Off
  100. Seven Products to Protect Your House From Snow and Ice Damage

The Onion

The Register

  1. This dev made a Llama with three inference engines
  2. Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter
  3. Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development
  4. Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend
  5. Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm
  6. Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines
  7. AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs
  8. Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI
  9. Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP
  10. Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party
  11. DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records
  12. Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint
  13. Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer
  14. Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services
  15. CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in
  16. Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips
  17. Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook
  18. DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom
  19. UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat
  20. Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork
  21. New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor
  22. Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees
  23. Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped
  24. Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem
  25. Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder
  26. OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks
  27. OpenAI chases business bucks with confusingly named Frontier platform
  28. Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach
  29. Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries
  30. Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station
  31. Anthropic apes OpenAI with cheeky chatbot commercials
  32. SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites
  33. Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds
  34. Betterment breach may expose 1.4M users after social engineering attack
  35. Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI
  36. UK's 'world-first' deepfake detection framework unlikely to stop the fakes, says expert
  37. Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files
  38. Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite
  39. Italy claims cyberattacks 'of Russian origin' are pelting Winter Olympics
  40. n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix
  41. CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit
  42. Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern
  43. UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog
  44. Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI
  45. Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door
  46. Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar
  47. AI’s lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it
  48. It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year
  49. Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing
  50. Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day

TechMeme

  1. T-glass, a type of ultrathin glass sheet used in advanced chips, is in short supply and largely comes from Nittobo, which is not adding capacity for months (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
  2. A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)
  3. OpenClaw partners with VirusTotal and says that all skills published to ClawHub are now scanned using VirusTotal's threat intelligence (The Hacker News)
  4. Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews; up to 10% of the workforce is at risk of being cut (Bloomberg)
  5. Q&A with mathematicians behind the "First Proof" experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
  6. Sources: iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri slated for the week of Feb. 23, M5 MacBook Pros as early as the week of Mar. 2 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  7. How Anthropic's bet on enterprise users is paying off; sources: Anthropic's guidance to investors claims annualized revenue will exceed $30B by the end of 2026 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
  8. Analysis: World Liberty Financial has earned the Trump family at least $1.2B in cash since its launch, while the Witkoff family has earned at least $200M (Wall Street Journal)
  9. European countries are moving toward social media bans for children, even as doubts persist over implementation and the risk of a new battle with US tech groups (Financial Times)
  10. This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock buyback cuts or more borrowing (Martin Peers/The Information)
  11. Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup has reinforced Apple's status-symbol appeal in China, with the "cosmic orange" Pro model going viral (Financial Times)
  12. A profile of Ali Ansari, the 25-year-old co-founder of micro1, which recruits human experts to train AI systems; micro1 was last valued at $500M in Sept. 2025 (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
  13. Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality 2.5 times faster but costs six times more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
  14. India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
  15. Chinese regulators reiterate the mainland crypto ban and expand enforcement to cover real-world asset tokenization and offshore yuan-pegged stablecoin issuance (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)