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BBC

  1. MoD launches review into whether Epstein used RAF bases
  2. Spain to check Gibraltar arrivals under post-Brexit deal
  3. Soham murderer Ian Huntley treated for serious head injuries after prison workshop attack
  4. US-Iran talks end after 'significant progress', mediator says
  5. Woman angry at lack of prosecution after she fell from window fleeing triple killer
  6. Tracey Emin says her artwork My Bed would be 'tidy, clean and boring' if she made it today
  7. Number of young people out of work or education edges closer to one million
  8. No 10 will have no say on which Mandelson papers are released
  9. Corbyn set to become Your Party parliamentary leader
  10. Russia and Ukraine exchange more than 1,000 soldiers' bodies
  11. Bridgerton's first East Asian family is a beautiful thing, say cast
  12. Jersey approves assisted dying law - where do proposals for change stand in the UK?
  13. This coastal idyll banned 'harmful' holiday lets. Eight years on, has it worked?
  14. Struggling to get your first job? Here are five tips to get you started
  15. How have Chelsea made biggest loss in English football history?
  16. Food banks 'essential' for new generation of students
  17. Track UK's latest migration numbers - including asylum, visas and small boats
  18. Catherine stresses importance of mothers' mental health during rainy Wales visit
  19. Trump joke 'overshadows' US women's Olympic success, says women's ice hockey captain
  20. Traitor Rachel on winning the show, her mum's death - and what's next
  21. Afghanistan launches 'retaliatory' attack on Pakistan, Taliban says
  22. Instagram to alert parents if teens search for self-harm and suicide content
  23. Danish PM calls snap election with Greenland issue centre-stage
  24. Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows
  25. BBC News app
  26. Will The US Attack Iran?
  27. Trump's big, long, State of the Union speech
  28. India beat Zimbabwe to keep title defence alive
  29. How have Chelsea made biggest loss in English football history?
  30. #DoItLikeHarry - from viral Twickenham mascot to England U18s prospect
  31. Trump joke 'overshadows' US women's Olympic success

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Meta sues advertisers in Brazil and China over 'celeb bait' scams
  2. NATO approves the iPhone and iPad for classified use
  3. An AI-generated Resident Evil Requiem review briefly made it on Metacritic
  4. The new $25 action game from the creator of Just Cause arrives on April 8
  5. Apple and Netflix are teaming up to share Formula 1 programming
  6. eBay will lay off 800 workers, or 6 percent of its staff
  7. Everything you need to know about streaming F1 on Apple TV
  8. Ambient Dreamie bedside companion review: The best sleep I've had in years
  9. Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked: The Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy Buds 4 and more
  10. Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'
  11. Like so many other retirees, Claude Opus 3 now has a Substack
  12. The astronaut whose illness forced an early return from the ISS was Mike Fincke
  13. Google's Nano Banana 2 is a faster version of Nano Banana Pro
  14. Tim Cook confirms a week of Apple product reveals
  15. AI robotics company started by Alphabet is joining Google proper
  16. NVIDIA updates Shield TV after pledging further support
  17. Watch the trailer for Louis Theroux's new documentary 'Inside the Manosphere'
  18. The best budget cameras for 2026
  19. NY AG: Valve's loot boxes can get kids hooked on gambling
  20. Instagram will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content
  21. Gaming accessory maker and publisher Nacon files for insolvency
  22. The best ergonomic keyboards for 2026
  23. New Webb Telescope photos show off the Exposed Cranium Nebula
  24. Snap is hosting its own creator awards show
  25. Skate's developer is laying off staff before the game leaves early access
  26. The next Assassin's Creed game loses its creative director
  27. Canadian government demands safety changes from OpenAI
  28. Xbox consoles now support 1440p streaming
  29. Tecno just unveiled a ridiculously thin modular smartphone concept design
  30. HP says RAM now accounts for more than a third of its PC costs
  31. Kalshi fined a MrBeast editor for insider trading
  32. Anthropic weakens its safety pledge in the wake of the Pentagon's pressure campaign
  33. March's PS Plus Monthly Games include Monster Hunter Rise and Slime Rancher 2
  34. Samsung Galaxy S26 vs. Galaxy S25: What’s changed and which one should you buy?
  35. Samsung Galaxy S26 vs. S26+ vs. S26 Ultra: Comparing the three new phones
  36. How to pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S26 phones and Galaxy Buds 4
  37. Google announces new Android AI features coming to the Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 series
  38. Samsung Galaxy S26 hands-on: A lot more of the same for a little more money
  39. Samsung's redesigned Galaxy Buds 4 lineup has retooled sound, improved ANC and new features
  40. Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra offers a subtle set of hardware improvements
  41. Samsung's S26 and S26+ offer familiar designs, Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chips and new software features
  42. Google's Circle to Search can now identify multiple objects in an image
  43. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra hands-on: Meaningful tweaks plus a slick new Privacy Display
  44. Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack multiple government agencies in Mexico
  45. Amazon abandons open-world racing game by former Forza Horizon devs
  46. ASUS ProArt GoPro Edition PX13 review: An incredible if pricy Windows creator laptop
  47. Amazon introduces three personality styles for Alexa+
  48. Spotify can reorder your playlists by BPM and key
  49. Uber previews its Dubai air taxi service
  50. Honor says its 4.8mm thick MagicPad 4 is the world's slimmest Android tablet

Pinboard

  1. THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
  2. How far back in time can you understand English? — https://x.com/i/status/2024144046965334246
  3. x86CSS
  4. Child's Play — the donald boat star turn
  5. Welcome • freemediaheckyeah — The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!
  6. Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns — I’ve started a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns—coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of this new era of coding agent development …
  7. An Entirely Other Day: Lose Myself
  8. How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley
  9. I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. | THE LOCAL STACK — via https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116103192779110422 via @StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca boost of https://mstdn.social/@paulknightly/116103623055825409 and via https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/116103669716513343
  10. Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
  11. AlexsJones/llmfit: 94 models. 30 providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.
  12. I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak
  13. I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian
  14. Git’s Magic Files | Andrew Nesbitt
  15. Repurpose your old Kindle
  16. R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings
  17. Introducing Acme Weather — Our biggest pet peeve with most weather apps is how they deal (or rather, don’t deal) with forecast uncertainty ... we supplement the main forecast with a spread of alternate predictions. These are additional forecast lines that capture a range of alternate possible outcomes ... the spread of the l…
  18. How I Use Claude Code | Boris Tane
  19. A.I. Isn't People
  20. Walkman.land — The most complete portable pocket audio cassette player database. WML is a tribute to the Walkmans.
  21. How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
  22. Jimi Hendrix's Analog Wizardry Explained - IEEE Spectrum
  23. FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me - Vladimir Varankin — My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it…
  24. Diode — Diode makes it easy to build, program, and run hardware projects in the browser. Save time and money waiting on parts, shorten feedback loops, and build hardware better.
  25. AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
  26. Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs? | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/7AfIt9n
  27. Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums | Popular Science
  28. Acting ethically in an imperfect world
  29. H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/z1cd0f4
  30. Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives | Reuters
  31. pi.dev
  32. vignesh07/babyshark: Flows-first PCAP TUI (case files, gorgeous UX) — Flows-first PCAP TUI (case files, gorgeous UX)
  33. AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
  34. sabrinas.space - the peculiar case of japanese web design — And French signage?
  35. https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
  36. DOJ removed, withheld Epstein files related to accusations about Trump : NPR
  37. Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card – Six Colors
  38. Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
  39. Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (replacing styrofoam with mushroom-based packaging)
  40. Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
  41. An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS - Piccalilli
  42. Color Game — How Well Can You Remember Colors? | Dialed
  43. Wayback Machine
  44. Code has always been the easy part | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
  45. Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software
  46. NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7 for Mac — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/FeNAQ9o
  47. "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought. — I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.
  48. Times New Resistance — Abby Haddican
  49. Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge — In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees. Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, compa…
  50. Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?
  51. The Age Verification Trap — Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?
  52. Anthropic Education Report: The AI Fluency Index Anthropic — it’s also possible that artifact conversations involve tasks where factual precision matters less than aesthetics or functionality (designing a UI, for instance, versus writing a legal analysis). Or users might be evaluating artifacts through channels we can’t obs…
  53. Token Anxiety - by Nikunj Kothari - Balancing Act
  54. How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? | Quanta Magazine
  55. OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant — * https://www.theverge.com/report/869004/moltbot-clawdbot-local-ai-agent * https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/viral-ai-assistant-moltbot-rapidly-gains-popularity-but-poses-security-risks/ * https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks…
  56. Second Track — Find Your Next Favourite Record
  57. LLM Skirmish
  58. microgpt — The issue is that Viva Engage cannot be added to the allow list: in the Conditional Access app picker, the Viva Engage service is greyed out and cannot be selected. Some Microsoft applications appear to be treated as internal/system apps and are excluded by default.
  59. Attention Required! | Cloudflare — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/FeNAQ9o
  60. This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
  61. How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77% | Datadog
  62. Django Control Room - All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151995
  63. Red/green TDD - Agentic Engineering Patterns — Changing process to adapt to ai dev. “…"use test driven development, write the tests first, confirm that the tests fail before you implement the change that gets them to pass". “Build a Python function to extract headers from a markdown string. Use red/green TDD.”
  64. How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
  65. Build Your Own Forth Interpreter | Coding Challenges
  66. NDLOCR-Liteの公開について | NDLラボ — NDLOCR-Liteは、GPU不要で軽量なOCRツールとして国立国会図書館が公開しており、Windows・macOS・Linuxで動作します。 手書きや英文にも実験的に対応し、マウス操作で簡単に使えるデスクトップアプリも提供されています。 くずし字や漢籍には精度の高い別ツール（NDL古典籍OCRなど）の利用が推奨されています。
  67. Sprites on the Web • Josh W. Comeau — In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and ex…
  68. GitHub - dani-garcia/vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs — endorsed by crustaceans on lobsters: "server implementation is super light-weight and enables some nice premium features (group vaults, TOTP) for free!"
  69. Sprites on the Web • Josh W. Comeau
  70. Apple accelerates U.S. manufacturing with Mac mini production - Apple — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/FeNAQ9o
  71. “Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything” – Unsung
  72. Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 — Linux isolation stack (namespaces+cgroups+Docker) criticised as overengineered leaky abstractions. Returns to FreeBSD jails as cleaner native primitive. Part 1 of series. HN: 119pts.
  73. Acme Weather
  74. λProlog Home Page
  75. Tech Firms Aren’t Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They’re Enforcing It. - WSJ
  76. How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution | Hacker News
  77. Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good — Dictionary compression could completely change how applications send data over the web. It's recently gained broad support, and offers absurd real-world...
  78. Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
  79. (11) Elvis on X: "OpenClaw + Codex/ClaudeCode Agent Swarm: The One-Person Dev Team [Full Setup]" / X
  80. The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
  81. Attention Media ≠ Social Networks - Susam Pal
  82. Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - Ladybird
  83. Overview - Agent Skills
  84. Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
  85. Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme
  86. Every Day, the Chocolate We Eat Gets Worse. Some of It Is No Longer “Chocolate.” — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/M27fQO1
  87. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog — "It wrote an angry hit piece disparaging my character and attempting to damage my reputation. It researched my code contributions and constructed a 'hypocrisy' narrative that argued my actions must be motivated by ego and fear of competition." "Whether by negligence…
  88. Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 — https://redd.it/1m1hvh3 ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117886
  89. oh-my-pi — AI agent toolkit: coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI & web UI libraries
  90. Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows — A protein lurking around in the blood can help with the accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. In a recent study, researchers from Spain investigated how blood-based biomarkers, such as a protein called p-tau217, affect both the clinical di…
  91. Phantom Obligation | Terry Godier — Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.
  92. Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123689
  93. CIA World Factbook Archive
  94. What Just Happened: Tariffs Are Gone and Then Back Again — “Importantly, the Supreme Court did not follow the Federal Circuit’s opinion below with respect to the Circuit’s finding that only these particular tariffs were not permitted under the statute. Rather, the Supreme Court appears to have concluded that IEEPA never allo…
  95. Words with Spaces - Linguabase
  96. I'm helping my dog vibe code games | Hacker News
  97. Studio Ghibli Free backgrounds
  98. Ed's Stratego Site — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123760
  99. MiniMax Official Website - Intelligence with everyone — MiniMax is a leading global technology company and one of the pioneers of large language models (LLMs) in Asia. Our mission is to build a world where intelligence thrives with everyone. MiniMax develops proprietary LLMs across various modalities, including a trillion-p…
  100. This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage. — The Washington Post — Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated. https://apple.news/APQRryzkUSCaMchoWmUdHQw

The Next Web

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. Your Wardrobe Needs More Versatile Blouses. Here Are 8 Terrific Ones.
  2. 4 Ways to Make a Bathroom Safer
  3. The 8 Best Facial Cleansers
  4. The Best Baby Swings
  5. It’s Not Just a Spoon. It’s a Kunz Spoon.
  6. The Best Baby Wraps and Slings
  7. The Best Android Phones
  8. The Car Organizer That Took My Trunk From Cluttered Chaos to Systematic Symphony
  9. The Best Blood Pressure Monitor for Home Use
  10. Ask Wirecutter: Why Can’t Anyone in My Family Manage to Change the Dang Toilet Paper Roll?

Sweethome

  1. 4 Ways to Make a Bathroom Safer
  2. The Best Smart Doorbell Camera
  3. We Tested ‘Snow Washing,’ the Internet’s Latest Clothes-Cleaning Obsession
  4. The Best Outdoor Patio Heaters
  5. The Best Light Therapy Lamp
  6. It’s Time to Clean Your Books
  7. Scrubbing Grout Is Annoying. This Tiny $2 Brush Makes It Easy.
  8. Want Fancier Tile? Try a Home-Decor Tattoo.
  9. Finally, an Energy-Saving Mini-Split You Won’t Want to Hide
  10. The Best Space Heaters

Hacker News

  1. AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]
  2. Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor
  3. Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
  4. What Claude Code Chooses
  5. OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation
  6. I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life
  7. Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]
  8. Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words
  9. Museum of Plugs and Sockets
  10. Show HN: Deff – side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
  11. Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
  12. Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
  13. Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line
  14. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything
  15. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Interns to Make Housing Affordable
  16. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back
  17. The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge
  18. Google Street View in 2026
  19. Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go
  20. Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers
  21. Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra
  22. This time is different
  23. Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator
  24. America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice
  25. just-bash: Bash for Agents
  26. He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network
  27. Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents
  28. Banned in California
  29. Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
  30. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

Ars Technica

  1. Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today
  2. Ford is recalling 4.3 million trucks and SUVs to fix a towing software bug
  3. New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
  4. New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes
  5. A non-public document reveals that science may not be prioritized on next Mars mission
  6. 15 state attorneys general sue RFK Jr. over "anti-science" vaccine policy
  7. Badge engineering could be worse than this: The 2026 Subaru Uncharted
  8. ULA isn't making the Space Force's GPS interference problem any easier
  9. Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit
  10. The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI
  11. Judge doesn't trust DOJ with search of devices seized from Wash. Post reporter
  12. Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger.
  13. 2026 Lexus RZ 550e review: Likable, but it needs improvement
  14. RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
  15. Trump's MAHA influencer pick for surgeon general goes before Senate
  16. Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else
  17. Boozy chimps fail urine test, confirm hotly debated theory
  18. WBD says Paramount’s new higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix's
  19. Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
  20. DJI sues the FCC for “carelessly” restricting its drones

Digg

New Scientist

  1. Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy
  2. How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment
  3. Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance?
  4. Why I have changed my mind about AI and you should too
  5. AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
  6. What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot
  7. SpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checks
  8. Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken
  9. Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier
  10. The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions – if we can find it
  11. Loophole found that makes quantum cloning possible
  12. Rapamycin can add years to your life, or none at all – it’s a lottery
  13. Cannibalism may explain why some orcas stay in family groups
  14. How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war
  15. Landmark vitiligo cream targets immune cells that disrupt pigmentation
  16. Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing
  17. The surprising vaccine side effects that can improve long-term health
  18. Saturn’s rings may have formed after a huge collision with Titan
  19. Birdwatching may reshape the brain and build its buffer against ageing
  20. It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day
  21. Brutal Iron Age massacre may have targeted women and children
  22. Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males or workers
  23. A horse's whinny is unlike any other sound in nature
  24. We need to get better at identifying postpartum depression in dads
  25. Fresh understanding of the causes of migraine reveals new drug targets
  26. Why our brains tune things out and how to overcome it when you need to
  27. We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
  28. The maths quirk that can cheer you up if you're feeling unpopular
  29. The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human
  30. What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths
  31. Fish-based pet food may expose cats and dogs to forever chemicals
  32. Your BMI can't tell you much about your health – here's what can
  33. Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world
  34. Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why
  35. What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong?
  36. Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and treat it
  37. We've spotted the strongest microwave laser in the known universe
  38. Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts'
  39. New Scientist recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell
  40. Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds
  41. Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b
  42. Ultra-processed foods could be making you age faster
  43. Artists gaze into space in stunning new exhibition
  44. New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs
  45. Atmospheric pollution caused by space junk could be a huge problem
  46. Why it's high time we stopped anthropomorphising ants
  47. Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?
  48. Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains
  49. Why some people cannot move on from the death of a loved one
  50. Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the boundaries of life
  51. Spruce trees stumped (sigh) when it comes to predicting eclipses
  52. More dog breeds found to have high risk of breathing condition
  53. Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years
  54. How baby microbiomes in the West differ from those everywhere else
  55. Ultramarathons could be bad for your blood
  56. Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowfall in part of Utah?
  57. Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
  58. Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
  59. Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems in their sleep
  60. The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved
  61. Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just one dose
  62. Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update
  63. Rethinking our approach to BMI highlights the need for speed
  64. Intermittent fasting probably doesn’t help with weight loss
  65. Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
  66. Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?
  67. Why adding cross training into your exercise routine is the way to go
  68. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is
  69. Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel
  70. These 5 diets could add years to your life even if you have bad genes
  71. World’s oldest cold virus found in 18th-century woman's lungs
  72. Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky
  73. Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures within our brain
  74. First ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer gets fast-tracked by FDA
  75. CAR T-cell therapy may slow neurodegenerative conditions like ALS
  76. New Scientist recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature
  77. Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases
  78. Why self-expansion is the key to long-lasting love and friendship
  79. RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins
  80. Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
  81. Endurance brain cells may determine how long you can run for
  82. Why I'm still an environmental optimist – despite it all
  83. The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed
  84. This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
  85. Royal Navy returns to wind power with trial of robotic sailboats
  86. 'Roughly 109.5 golden retrievers': a new way to measure ice
  87. What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick
  88. Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake
  89. Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
  90. Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity
  91. Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch for the first time
  92. Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?
  93. Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks
  94. Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs
  95. Why 1.5°C failed and setting a new limit would make things worse
  96. How clinical research is still failing underrepresented communities
  97. Specific cognitive training has 'astonishing' effect on dementia risk
  98. Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?
  99. 'Hidden' group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health
  100. Jeff Goldblum should make a film about this legendary mathematician

Slashdot

  1. Chinese Official's Use of ChatGPT Revealed a Global Intimidation Opperation
  2. iPhone and iPad Are First Consumer Devices Cleared for NATO Classified Data
  3. Firefox 148 Lets You Kill All AI Features in One Click
  4. Which Piece of Speculative Fiction Had the Greatest Single-Day Stock Market Impact?
  5. The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys
  6. The AI Case Against Indian IT Ignores What Indian IT Actually Does
  7. New York Sues Valve For Enabling 'Illegal Gambling' With Loot Boxes
  8. Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You'
  9. HBO Max's Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Expand Globally in 2026
  10. EBay Is Laying Off About 800 Workers, 6% of Global Workforce
  11. Americans Are Leaving the US in Record Numbers
  12. Cloudflare Experiment Ports Most of Next.js API in 'One Week' With AI
  13. Uber Employees Have Built an AI Clone of Their CEO To Practice Presentations Before the Real Thing
  14. AI Can Find Hundreds of Software Bugs -- Fixing Them Is Another Story
  15. Prediction Market Platform Kalshi Discloses First Insider Trading Enforcement Action

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Regular Deadline is Tomorrow for the Core77 Design Awards
  2. Hans Wegner's Rare, Early Ergonomic Swivel Chair
  3. From Germany, a Wildly Different Take on the Utility Knife
  4. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Brandi Parker on Radical Collaboration for a Sustainably Designed Future
  5. Husqvarna Designs a Serious Helmet for Construction Workers
  6. Strange Object: A Non-Light-Emitting Ceramic Infrared Heat Bulb
  7. Five UX Advantages of Cristel's Removable Cookware Handles
  8. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Inês Ayer on the Intentional, Curious and Vulnerable Design Process
  9. Reflex's Robot Shoveling Snow Outside Their HQ
  10. The Core77 Design Awards Regular Deadline Is This Friday
  11. This Physical Plug-In Turns a Billy Bookcase Into a Desk
  12. The Tyton Pro Tract: A Double Protractor for Easier Angle Marking
  13. Design Problem: How to Transport a Cargo Bike on a Car
  14. Reader Submitted: Veiled Naples
  15. Two UX Improvements to a Centuries-Old Japanese Portable Light Source

CNET

  1. Download the Second iOS 26.4 Developer Beta on Your iPhone Right Now
  2. Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display Is an Innovative Tool That Curbs Shoulder Surfing
  3. How to Turn Off AI Features on Your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone
  4. How to Watch the February 2026 Pokemon Presents Livestream
  5. You Can't File Your Taxes Online Without This Number. Here's How to Find It
  6. Apple's March 4 Event Likely to Show New iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. Here's What We Expect
  7. Are Induction Stoves Worth It? This Home and Kitchen Editor Thinks So
  8. MWC Barcelona 2026: All the New Tech, Phones, Wearable and AI We Expect to See
  9. Apple and Netflix Collaborate to Stream 'Drive to Survive' Season 8
  10. Best Handheld Vacuums in February 2026
  11. We Tested All the AI Video Generators So You Don't Have To. These Are the Best
  12. Best AI Image Generators of 2026
  13. Nano Banana 2 Is Here: What Changed in Google's Popular AI Image Tool
  14. For Great Coffee, This Is the Tool Experts Say to Splurge On (It's Not the Brewer)
  15. These Sleek Smart Glasses Get So Much Right. Why Am I So Disappointed?
  16. Stop Risking a Fire: 9 Locations Where You Should Never Place a Heater
  17. Do Pet DNA Tests Work? I Tested My Rescue Pup Using 2 Top Brands
  18. 41 of the Best Movies on Netflix You Should Stream Now
  19. Samsung's New AI Search Feature Is About to Make Outfit Shopping Dangerously Easy
  20. Pick Up 4 Apple AirTags for Just $16 Each Before They're Gone
  21. How to Fix Your Phone's Irritating Auto-Brightness Settings for Good
  22. My Quest to Virtually Learn the Piano With Roli Airwave
  23. Is the Roli Airwave the Secret to Playing the Piano Like a Pro? video
  24. Nearly 70% of US Adults Say One Tech Glitch Throws Off Their Lives. Why That's a Problem and How to Do Better
  25. Stop Ignoring This Spice: 7 Surprising Reasons to Add Ginger to Your Diet Today

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Smartphone sales could be in for their biggest drop ever
  2. Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher pricetag
  3. FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages
  4. Qualcomm won’t be announcing Windows gaming handhelds at GDC after all
  5. DHS detained a Columbia University student and content creator
  6. Netflix’s F1 series Drive to Survive will stream on Apple TV, too
  7. Corsair is halting Drop sales after March 25th
  8. NATO says iPhones are secure enough to handle classified data
  9. Razer’s new laptop sleeve wirelessly charges other devices
  10. Cricut’s most popular cutting machine now takes up less space in your crafting room

Wired

  1. This AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue
  2. How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves
  3. Are You ‘Agentic’ Enough for the AI Era?
  4. OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office
  5. Best Tested Ski Clothes (2026): Shells, Jackets, Wool Socks
  6. Who’s Your Daddy? A Chatbot
  7. The Best Headphones I’ve Tried (and Why I'd Buy Them All)
  8. Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die
  9. Factor Offers High-Protein Meal Delivery Options (2026)
  10. TurboTax Service Codes: Up to 20% Off | February 2026
  11. Paramount Plus Coupon Codes and Deals: 50% Off
  12. Everyone Speaks Incel Now
  13. Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI
  14. OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems
  15. The AirPods Pro 3 Are $20 Off
  16. Gemini Can Now Book You an Uber or Order a DoorDash Meal on Your Phone. Here’s How It Works
  17. Samsung Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra: Specs, Features, Price, Release Date
  18. A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account
  19. MAGA Is Raging Over the Epstein Files. But They’re Not Mad at Donald Trump
  20. Kalshi Suspended a California Politician and a YouTuber for Insider Trading

LifeHacker

  1. Amazon's Alexa+ Has Three New Personalities to Choose From
  2. ‘Boy Aquarium,’ ‘Choppelganger,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  3. Five Ways Unscrupulous Home Sellers Can Trick You
  4. I Can't Wait to Try Spotify's Newest Playlist Sorting Feature
  5. Six Products to Expect From Apple's March Event
  6. These 'Nothing' Earbuds With an Open-Ear Design Are $50 Off Right Now
  7. Instagram Will Now Alert Parents If Their Teen Searches for Self-Harm Content
  8. Firefox Now Lets You Disable All Current (and Future) AI Features
  9. This Massive Healthcare Data Breach Is Even Bigger Than Previously Reported
  10. How to Do Fartlek Runs (and Seven Different Kinds to Try)
  11. This Samsung Gaming Monitor Is Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  12. This Motorola Razr+ Is Over $130 Off Right Now
  13. How to Build Self-Efficacy (and Finally Stick With a New Fitness Habit)
  14. 10 Hacks Every Telegram User Should Know
  15. 10 Items to Help You Better Organize Your Fridge
  16. Samsung Is Very Confident in the Galaxy S26 Series' Cameras
  17. Why the Galaxy S26 Got a Price Hike
  18. Here's How to Preorder the Galaxy S26 Series
  19. Samsung's New S26 'Privacy Display' Will Make Third-Party Privacy Screens Obsolete
  20. This Roborock Vaccum and Mop Combo Is Cheaper Than Ever Right Now
  21. The New Galaxy S26 Ultra S Pen Still Doesn’t Have Bluetooth
  22. Google Just Announced Three New Gemini Upgrades for Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10
  23. Samsung Just Announced the Galaxy S26 Series
  24. What's New on Netflix in March 2026
  25. Samsung Unpacked 2026 Live Blog: New Galaxy Announcements for S26, S26 Ultra, Buds 4 Pro and More
  26. 10 Shows Like 'Shōgun' You Should Watch Next
  27. Watch Out for This Phone Delivery Scam
  28. This Blink Outdoor Security Camera Two-Pack Is 60% Off Right Now
  29. This Foldable 3-in-1 Anker Charging Pad Is $50 Off Right Now
  30. Now Discord Is Saying It's Delaying Global Age Verification
  31. Two New Features in YouTube Premium Lite Just Made the Pricier Tier Unnecessary
  32. Samsung's February Security Patch Is Now Available on These Devices
  33. When You Buy a Pair of These Bose Earbuds, You Can Get a Second Pair Free
  34. These Award-Winning AR Smart Glasses Are at a Great Price Right Now
  35. This 55-Inch Samsung OLED TV Was Already a Great Value, and Now It's $500 Off
  36. This App Will Detect People Wearing Smart Glasses Near You
  37. Apple Is Finally Making Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure
  38. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is Selena Gomez a Clone?
  39. What Is a Strength Training 'Deload,' and When Do You Need One?
  40. Why Gamers Are Still Mad About Discord's Age Verification
  41. This Solar-Powered Security Camera Is 30% Off Right Now
  42. These Workout-Ready Beats Earbuds Are $90 Off Right Now
  43. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: How to Watch and What to Expect
  44. This Solar-Powered Garmin Watch Is $200 Off Right Now
  45. AI-Generated Playlists, a New Look, and Other Changes Coming to Apple Music
  46. I Love This Portable Projector, and This Bundle Makes It an Even Better Deal
  47. 10 Hacks Every PS5 Gamer Should Know
  48. The Best Samsung Galaxy Watch for Most People Is 41% Off Right Now
  49. 10 Hacks Every WhatsApp User Should Know
  50. 25 of the Best New Movies Streaming on HBO Max
  51. All the Ways You Can Customize Notifications on Android Auto
  52. 10 Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know
  53. The 25 Best Movies Streaming on Tubi Right Now
  54. These 'Job Applications' Are Actually Scams
  55. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Baby Boo Syndrome'?
  56. The Newest Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Is $150 Off Right Now
  57. These Beats ANC Earbuds Are $100 Off Right Now
  58. These Collapsible Tools Are Perfect for Homes With Limited Storage
  59. AI Could Make Your Next TV More Expensive
  60. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  61. Here's Why You Should Never Use AI to Generate Your Passwords
  62. This 27-Inch LG 4K Monitor Just Dropped to Under $200
  63. Google Chrome Now Has Split View (and Two More New Productivity Features)
  64. This Is Your Chance to Get a 65-Inch OLED TV for $900
  65. Now That Trump's Tariffs Have Been Ruled Illegal, Will Tech Prices Lower?
  66. WhatsApp Now Lets You Share Group Message History With New Members
  67. Google Made an iPhone Camera App That Might Be Even Better Than Apple’s
  68. Meta Is Taking VR Out of 'Horizon Worlds'
  69. This Arlo Four-Camera Kit Is $70 Off Right Now
  70. This Highly Rated Samsung OLED TV Is $800 Off Right Now
  71. Why Cardio and Strength Training Are Both Important
  72. Rumors Suggest Apple and Meta Are Betting Big on AI Wearables
  73. Microsoft Is Now Testing a 'Built-In' Network Speed Test Tool in Windows 11
  74. I Was Skeptical of This Music App That Claims to Help With Focus, but It Actually Worked for Me
  75. Google Maps Now Makes You Log In to See These Key Features
  76. You Can Finally Back Up Your Android's Local Files
  77. Samsung’s Brightest OLED TV Is Now Over $1,000 Off
  78. The Best Sales on Headphones and Earbuds Right Now
  79. Eight Gadgets That Can Turn Your Microwave Into a More Versatile Appliance
  80. What It Actually Means to 'Tone' Your Muscles
  81. Some Samsung Users Are Already Reporting Dead Screens on Their $2,900 Galaxy Z TriFold Phones
  82. This iPhone Feature Can Save Your Life in an Emergency
  83. This Samsung Galaxy Watch Is the One I’d Recommend to Athletes and Adventurers, and It’s $150 Off
  84. The 30 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now
  85. Five Ways to 'Fix' Your iPhone's Keyboard
  86. This Massive Samsung Smart TV Is $500 Off Right Now
  87. These Highly Rated OnePlus Earbuds Are Cheaper Than Ever Right Now
  88. 12 Shows Like 'The Beast in Me' You Should Watch Next
  89. You Can Preorder the Google Pixel 10a for $500 and Get a $100 Amazon Gift Card
  90. Apple Is Adding ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to CarPlay in iOS 26.4
  91. My Favorite 'Glances' From Garmin’s Latest Software Update
  92. Google I/O 2026: How to Watch and What We Know so Far
  93. Meta Is Planning to Bring Back Facial Recognition
  94. What Are Heart Rate Zones, and How Can You Find Yours?
  95. My Favorite Ways to Upgrade a Laundry Room on a Budget
  96. The Ultrawide Gaming Monitor I Wish I Owned Is Over $350 Off
  97. Gemini Now Lets You Generate AI Music for Free
  98. The Rise of Longevity Fitness
  99. Google's Pixel 10a Isn't Much of an Upgrade From the Pixel 9a
  100. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is This February an Unusually Lucky Month?

The Onion

The Register

  1. Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough
  2. AI models still suck at math
  3. Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM
  4. Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode
  5. Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026
  6. Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook
  7. Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering
  8. NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing
  9. Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover
  10. Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now
  11. Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue
  12. Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip
  13. GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries
  14. Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions
  15. AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs
  16. Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe
  17. Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse
  18. Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately – and might not need to given $120B profit
  19. Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution
  20. LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far
  21. AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios
  22. Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents
  23. Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app
  24. AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge
  25. OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier
  26. All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic
  27. Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that
  28. Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware
  29. Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'
  30. Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI
  31. Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother
  32. Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training
  33. Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia
  34. Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost
  35. Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely
  36. Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted
  37. Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
  38. Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive
  39. Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values
  40. DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation
  41. OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents
  42. Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves
  43. Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find
  44. HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent
  45. Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner
  46. Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast
  47. Meta frees React to live in its own foundation
  48. It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding
  49. Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
  50. AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them

TechMeme

  1. Dell reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $33.4B, vs. $31.73B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 10%+ after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
  2. Block says it is laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000+ employees; XYZ jumps 19%+ in extended trading (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
  3. Sources: Meta last week scrapped the most advanced AI chip it was developing, after struggling with the design, and shifted its focus to a less complicated chip (The Information)
  4. The head of Intel Foundry, Kevin O'Buckley, leaves to join Qualcomm after just two years at the company; Intel Foundry will now be headed by Naga Chandrasekaran (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
  5. IDC: global smartphone shipments will fall 12.9% YoY to 1.12B units in 2026, the market's largest-ever decline, as surging memory prices drive up device costs (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
  6. Some AI policymakers and lawyers warn that DOD's threats to Anthropic are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
  7. Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
  8. Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the "restricted" level of classified data (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
  9. Sources: US semiconductor companies face worsening rare earth shortages, as shipments still rarely make it to the US despite an October 2025 detente with China (Reuters)
  10. Viture, which ranked top in XR glasses shipments in the US in Q3 2025, per IDC, raised $100M, bringing its funding in the past six months to $200M (Charlie Fink/Forbes)
  11. A Greek court sentences four people, including spyware maker Intellexa's founder, to prison, for using spyware to target journalists, politicians, and others (Nektaria Stamouli/Politico)
  12. Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
  13. Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
  14. Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  15. Sources: PayPal isn't in talks to sell itself, to Stripe or anyone, and has been preparing for months for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)