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BBC

  1. Lord Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
  2. Watch: Peter Mandelson led away by police from Camden home
  3. Mexico sends thousands of soldiers to stop violence after death of drug lord
  4. Nottingham killer watched shooting videos online, inquiry hears
  5. BBC sorry for airing racial slur shouted by guest with Tourette's at Baftas
  6. Nick Reiner pleads not guilty in the killing of parents Rob and Michele
  7. Queen tells Gisèle Pelicot her new memoir left her 'speechless'
  8. PinkPantheress makes history by winning Brit Award for best producer
  9. Three key changes being made to special educational needs
  10. Rape suspect freed from jail in error now abroad
  11. Inside the children's home where late night footsteps meant fear and abuse
  12. Anti-government student protests spread to more Iranian universities
  13. 'The end of Xbox': fans split as AI exec takes over Microsoft's top gaming role
  14. Ukraine negotiator tells BBC how it feels to sit across table from Russia
  15. Lord Mandelson arrest - how did we get here?
  16. Why has Alan Carr bought a castle and where is it?
  17. 'Burned and destroyed': Locals and tourists describe Mexico unrest
  18. Two arrested after death of 'British Lip King'
  19. No 10 says 'nothing off the table' over new US tariffs as UK could be among worst hit
  20. I almost lost my leg after Olympics crash, says US skier Lindsey Vonn
  21. Porn company fined £1.35m by Ofcom over age check failings
  22. PM orders ethics investigation into minister over Labour Together claims
  23. 'Sadistic' pair behind bars for blowing up sheep
  24. Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals
  25. BBC News app
  26. Gordon Brown turns detective over Andrew
  27. Trump's Tariffs... Trump attacks the Supreme Court over tariff ban
  28. Five reasons for England's Six Nations slide
  29. Italian cricket in crisis amid sexual assault allegation
  30. 'We'll give them a tough time' - England face another trial by spin
  31. I almost lost my leg after crash, says Vonn
  32. What could Mexico cartel violence mean for World Cup?
  33. Draper makes winning return to tour after injury

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models
  2. Summer Game Fest runs from June 5-8
  3. Bungie says 'no second chances' if you're caught cheating in Marathon
  4. Falcon Northwest FragBox review: A compact gaming rig that does everything right
  5. Nothing reveals the Phone 4a ahead of schedule
  6. Ball x Pit will land on iOS and Android on March 12
  7. Lamborghini ditches plans for its all-electric supercar due to 'close to zero' buyer interest
  8. A new Evangelion series is coming from Studio Khara and Yoko Taro, creator of NieR
  9. The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app
  10. Anker's new 45W Nano charger with smart display is already $10 off
  11. Elevation Lab's AirTag 10-year extended battery case is only $16 right now
  12. The best cheap Windows laptops for 2026
  13. The best earbuds for Android devices in 2026
  14. NASA's crewed Artemis II launch gets pushed back again, this time due to a helium issue
  15. Colorado is working on a bill that would make it illegal to 3D print firearms and gun parts
  16. Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI for its upcoming S26 series
  17. 2026 Olympics: How to watch the Winter Games Closing Ceremony today
  18. Apple is reportedly considering red as the next premium color for its iPhones
  19. Apple's first event of the year will reportedly bring at least five products over a 'three-day blitz'
  20. How to send a message via satellite on iPhone
  21. The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US
  22. The US will send Tech Corps members to foreign countries in its latest push for AI dominance
  23. A judge ruled Tesla still has to pay $243 million for a fatal crash involving Autopilot
  24. 13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools
  25. How to know if an AirTag is tracking you
  26. Engadget review recap: Sony WF-1000XM6, ASUS Zenbook Duo and more
  27. An old-school Zelda-like, Skate Bums and other new indie games worth checking out
  28. Xbox head Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft
  29. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: The Galaxy S26 and other devices that might launch on February 25
  30. Tunic publisher claims TikTok ran 'racist, sexist' AI ads for one of its games without its knowledge
  31. OpenAI will reportedly release an AI-powered smart speaker in 2027
  32. NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch to take astronauts around the Moon
  33. Ubisoft lays off 40 staff working on Splinter Cell remake, says game remains in development
  34. Engadget Podcast: Instagram on trial and the RAMaggedon rages on
  35. US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content
  36. LA County lawsuit accuses Roblox of exposing children to 'grooming and exploitation'
  37. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Switch next week for the series’ 30th anniversary
  38. The Morning After: What to expect from Apple’s March 4 hardware event
  39. Samsung updates Bixby to become more conversational
  40. Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025
  41. The best streaming services in 2026
  42. The best cheap Android phones to buy in 2026
  43. Apple inks deal for IMAX screenings of live Formula 1 races
  44. Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first
  45. Slay the Spire 2 will enter early access on March 5
  46. Sony is shutting down the studio behind the Demon's Souls remake
  47. Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists
  48. Here are my favorite things from Toy Fair 2026
  49. Ring could be planning to expand Search Party feature beyond dogs
  50. YouTube is bringing the Gemini-powered 'Ask' button to TVs

Pinboard

  1. How far back in time can you understand English? — https://x.com/i/status/2024144046965334246
  2. Child's Play — the donald boat star turn
  3. How I Use Claude Code | Boris Tane
  4. 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
  5. "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.
  6. Color Game — How Well Can You Remember Colors? | Dialed
  7. Lil' Fun Langs — a pungent monad odor that attracts mathochists
  8. (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup — https://lobste.rs/s/pgahrv
  9. micasa — your house, in a terminal
  10. Sizing chaos: how women can't find clothes • The Pudding — Amanda Sakuma and Jan Diehm: I remember once being that teen girl shopping in the women’s section for the first time. I took stacks upon stacks of jeans with me to the dressing room, searching in vain for that one pair that fit perfectly. Over 20 years later, my hunt…
  11. ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
  12. Acting ethically in an imperfect world
  13. A Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards — "So you’ve heard of split keyboards and want to buy one, but don’t know where to start? You’ve come to the right place! There are many offerings these days which can be overwhelming, so this guide aims to provide a high level overview of the landscape so you can figure out which path y…
  14. sandbox-exec: macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool | Igor's Techno Club — sandbox-exec is a built-in macOS command-line utility that enables users to execute applications within a sandboxed environment
  15. How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley
  16. How to Write a Good Spec for AI Agents – O’Reilly
  17. Parse, don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust — ramblings of @harudagondi
  18. Turn Dependabot Off
  19. Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css — A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side.
  20. Git’s Magic Files | Andrew Nesbitt
  21. Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton. | Kasava
  22. AI makes you boring | marginalia.nu — AI makes people boring. AI models are extremely bad at original thinking, so any thinking that is offloaded to a LLM is as a result usually not very original, even if they’re very good at treating your inputs to the discussion as amazing genius level insights. ... The way huma…
  23. Cleaning up merged git branches: a one-liner from the CIA's leaked dev docs | spencer.wtf
  24. Japanese Woodblock Print Search - Ukiyo-e Search
  25. Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
  26. Oat - Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
  27. What is OAuth?
  28. The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas
  29. (1) Thariq on X: "Lessons from Building Claude Code: Prompt Caching Is Everything " / X
  30. GitHub - gsd-build/get-shit-done: A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode. — A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode. - gsd-build/get-shit-done
  31. I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs | Hacker News — The git plugin in oh-my-zsh has an alias for this: gbda It also has one for squash-merged branches: gbds Deleting dead branches easily
  32. Idea to mobile app in minutes — Rork builds complete, production-ready mobile apps from your description using AI and React Native
  33. Whale Fall | Andrew Nesbitt — The death of an open-source project is like a whale fall, spawning an ecosystem of forks, shims, reimplantations, etc
  34. Loon — A LISP that flies
  35. Cosmologically Unique IDs - Jason Fantl
  36. frontier model training methodologies — How do labs train a frontier, multi-billion parameter model? We look towards seven open-weight frontier models: Hugging Face’s SmolLM3, Prime Intellect’s Intellect 3, Nous Research’s Hermes 4, OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b, Moonshot’s Kimi K2, DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-R1, and Arcee’s Trinity series…
  37. Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor — Quick ASCII wireframe prototyping tool
  38. Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme
  39. GitHub - manaflow-ai/cmux: cmux lets you run Claude Code, Codex CLI, Amp, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, Opencode, and other coding agent CLIs in parallel across multiple tasks — via GitHub Public Timeline Feed
  40. How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution | Hacker News
  41. qwibitai/nanoclaw: A lightweight alternative to Clawdbot / OpenClaw that runs in Apple containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic's Agents SDK
  42. Django ORM Standalone⁽¹⁾: Querying an existing database
  43. Keep Android Open — In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.
  44. The Agent Skills Directory — Discover and install skills for AI agents.
  45. Blue light filters don’t work - by Patrick Mineault
  46. A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
  47. Nashville comic’s fake ICE tip line exposes teachers reporting kids
  48. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - Ars Technica — If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
  49. The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead | Boris Tane — A lightweight commenting system using GitHub issues.
  50. tnm/zclaw: Your personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32. GPIO, cron, memory, and more. — Your personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32. GPIO, cron, memory, and more. - tnm/zclaw
  51. AlexsJones/llmfit: 94 models. 30 providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.
  52. Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer — мы исправляем ошибку, чтобы понять программное обеспечение, а не просто чтобы её исправить
  53. Email Marketing Skill for Claude Code | Email Marketing Bible
  54. shuru - Local-first microVM sandbox for AI agents
  55. Half the AI Agent Market Is One Category. The Rest Is Wide Open. | Garry's List
  56. Facebook is absolutely cooked | Hacker News
  57. Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
  58. An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS - Piccalilli
  59. Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents | June Kim
  60. Miscalibrated – Chris Coyier — Chris's post really resonated with me as I feel very much like what he describes. I'm also on a GPL1!
  61. Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial - CBS News
  62. Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say
  63. THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
  64. Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries | De minimis non curat Lex
  65. The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
  66. OpenScan - 3D Scanning for the Masses — We create the future of accessible, high-quality 3D scanning with our DIY photogrammetry-based 3D scanners. Compatible with various cameras, our scanners offer a cost-effective solution for 3D printing, modeling, reverse engineering, or product presentation. Our open-source and modular…
  67. Second Track — Find Your Next Favourite Record
  68. Investors pour record sums into European stocks
  69. Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents | Stripe Dot Dev Blog
  70. OKLCH Color Picker, Generator and Converter – Create Unique and Uniform Color Palettes for Your App
  71. alibaba/zvec: A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
  72. A beginner's guide to split keyboards | Hacker News
  73. Star Wars: Andor's Tony Gilroy Gives Interview He Couldn't Before
  74. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/2o3gHOm
  75. Searching for Birds — via nicolas barradeau
  76. Attention Media ≠ Social Networks - Susam Pal
  77. Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/AUu3JFk
  78. ‘A joyful day’: final piece of Sagrada Familia’s central tower put in place | Barcelona | The Guardian
  79. confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters
  80. 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century | TIME
  81. How Agentation Cut Claude Code UI Iterations in Half
  82. Be Wary of Bluesky (kevinak.se)
  83. Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking | Hacker News
  84. Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun - The New York Times
  85. GitHub - datapartyjs/MeshTNC: MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatible packet radio modems
  86. Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate — Optimisation of bloom filters in Floe using double bit setting with lightweight hashing.
  87. rodney — CLI tool for interacting with the web
  88. Index, Count, Offset, Size
  89. Database Transactions — PlanetScale
  90. xkcd 2501 generator — X is second nature to us Y, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Z
  91. Recomendo Deals — Live Prices on 2,900+ Recommended Products
  92. How Taalas "prints" LLM onto a chip? — “A startup called Taalas, recently released an ASIC chip running Llama 3.1 8B (3/6 bit quant) at an inference rate of 17,000 tokens per seconds. That's like writing around 30 A4 sized pages in one second. They claim it's 10x cheaper in ownership cost than GPU based inference systems and…
  93. sandcastles (all the pleasure, none of the burden) - prettyshadow (theaujasmin) - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — “H’rder,” Shane whines into his mouth, not even trying to interrupt the kiss but speaking pathetically muffled and slurred around Ilya’s tongue. Ilya knocks their foreheads together, smiles. “Noo…
  94. TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it
  95. A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them | Ukraine | The Guardian — One European foreign minister, who asked not to specify their country, recalled a discussion with Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, that became heated: “I’m old enough to remember 2003, and …
  96. Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens
  97. 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.
  98. stonerl/Thaw: Menu bar manager for macOS — ice bartender bulldozer hidden menu bar manager
  99. Army warrant officers to ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus — are these people fucking nuts
  100. Does It Last? | Food Storage Guide

The Next Web

  1. OpenAI forms “Frontier Alliances” with top consultancies to push enterprise AI into production
  2. The EU’s strategic rebalancing of research partnerships with China
  3. A new early-stage fund: Syndicate One raises €22M for Belgium’s startups
  4. Berlin hosts private premiere of ‘Holiguards Saga – The Portal of Force’ with Kevin Spacey and Elvira Paterson
  5. Zurich’s Rapidata raises €7.2M to build a real-time human feedback network for AI
  6. Gartner $110M sale of Digital Markets division in latest SEC filing
  7. Google’s new music tool, Lyria 3 is here
  8. Plato closes $14.5M to bring AI automation to wholesale trade
  9. David Silver is chasing superhuman intelligence with a $1bn seed
  10. When robots outshine humans, I have to ask: Are we ready?

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The 27 Best Gifts for Cyclists
  2. The Best Refrigerators
  3. The Best Tripod for iPhones and Other Smartphones
  4. The Best Gas Stoves and Ranges
  5. How (and How Often) to Clean Your Towels
  6. The Best SD Cards
  7. The Best Jogging Strollers
  8. The Best Sleep Headphones
  9. How the Heck Do You Choose the Right Foundation Shade? We Have Some Advice.
  10. The Best Waffle Maker

Sweethome

  1. How (and How Often) to Clean Your Towels
  2. The Best Label Makers
  3. The Best Fireproof Document Safe
  4. The Best Home Security System
  5. The Best Smart Sprinkler Timer
  6. The Best Smart Locks
  7. The Best Smart Doorbell Camera
  8. Most Moving Hacks You See Online Are Terrible. Here’s What to Do Instead.
  9. Moving is Wildly Expensive. These 8 Tips Will Help.
  10. The Ultimate Moving Checklist

Hacker News

  1. UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A
  2. The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
  3. Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
  4. Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
  5. Ladybird adopts Rust
  6. 'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study
  7. SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco
  8. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
  9. Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
  10. A simple web we own
  11. Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
  12. Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
  13. The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind
  14. Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
  15. ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030
  16. 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
  17. Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go
  18. Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf]
  19. The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
  20. Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations
  21. Show HN: Fostrom, an IoT Cloud Platform built for developers
  22. femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
  23. A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
  24. Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives
  25. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)
  26. I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
  27. What Is a Centipawn Advantage?
  28. SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)
  29. What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
  30. Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

Ars Technica

  1. New Microsoft gaming chief has "no tolerance for bad AI"
  2. The 2026 Mazda CX-5, driven: It got bigger; plus, radical tech upgrade
  3. AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
  4. Review: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms brings back that Westeros magic
  5. The first cars bold enough to drive themselves
  6. Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere
  7. NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs
  8. Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils
  9. Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?
  10. Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
  11. After fueling test, optimism grows for March launch of Artemis II to the Moon
  12. Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company
  13. MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as RFK Jr. flips on pesticide
  14. Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK
  15. FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
  16. Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind
  17. Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up
  18. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
  19. Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its "lead platform"
  20. "Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans

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New Scientist

  1. Birdwatching may reshape the brain and build its buffer against ageing
  2. Brutal Iron Age massacre may have targeted women and children
  3. It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day
  4. Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males or workers
  5. A horse's whinny is unlike any other sound in nature
  6. We need to get better at identifying postpartum depression in dads
  7. Fresh understanding of the causes of migraine reveals new drug targets
  8. Why our brains tune things out and how to overcome it when you need to
  9. We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
  10. The maths quirk that can cheer you up if you're feeling unpopular
  11. The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human
  12. What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths
  13. Fish-based pet food may expose cats and dogs to forever chemicals
  14. Your BMI can't tell you much about your health – here's what can
  15. Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world
  16. Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why
  17. What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong?
  18. Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and treat it
  19. We've spotted the strongest microwave laser in the known universe
  20. Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts'
  21. New Scientist recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell
  22. Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds
  23. Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b
  24. Ultra-processed foods could be making you age faster
  25. Artists gaze into space in stunning new exhibition
  26. New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs
  27. Atmospheric pollution caused by space junk could be a huge problem
  28. Why it's high time we stopped anthropomorphising ants
  29. Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?
  30. Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains
  31. Why some people cannot move on from the death of a loved one
  32. Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the boundaries of life
  33. Spruce trees stumped (sigh) when it comes to predicting eclipses
  34. More dog breeds found to have high risk of breathing condition
  35. Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years
  36. How baby microbiomes in the West differ from those everywhere else
  37. Ultramarathons could be bad for your blood
  38. Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowfall in part of Utah?
  39. Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
  40. Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
  41. Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems in their sleep
  42. The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved
  43. Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just one dose
  44. Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update
  45. Rethinking our approach to BMI highlights the need for speed
  46. Intermittent fasting probably doesn’t help with weight loss
  47. Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
  48. Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?
  49. Why adding cross training into your exercise routine is the way to go
  50. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is
  51. Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel
  52. These 5 diets could add years to your life even if you have bad genes
  53. World’s oldest cold virus found in 18th-century woman's lungs
  54. Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky
  55. Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures within our brain
  56. First ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer gets fast-tracked by FDA
  57. CAR T-cell therapy may slow neurodegenerative conditions like ALS
  58. New Scientist recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature
  59. Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases
  60. Why self-expansion is the key to long-lasting love and friendship
  61. RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins
  62. Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
  63. Endurance brain cells may determine how long you can run for
  64. Why I'm still an environmental optimist – despite it all
  65. The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed
  66. This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
  67. Royal Navy returns to wind power with trial of robotic sailboats
  68. 'Roughly 109.5 golden retrievers': a new way to measure ice
  69. What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick
  70. Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake
  71. Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
  72. Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity
  73. Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch for the first time
  74. Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?
  75. Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks
  76. Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs
  77. Why 1.5°C failed and setting a new limit would make things worse
  78. How clinical research is still failing underrepresented communities
  79. Specific cognitive training has 'astonishing' effect on dementia risk
  80. Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?
  81. 'Hidden' group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health
  82. Jeff Goldblum should make a film about this legendary mathematician
  83. Physicists can now take control of 'hidden' friction in devices
  84. Personalised medicine is yet to deliver, but that must start to change
  85. Statins don't cause most of the side effects listed on their labels
  86. Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago
  87. Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?
  88. Do weeds really love poor soil? Not if you look at the science
  89. Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer
  90. The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre's point
  91. Weakening ice shelf has caused crucial Antarctic glacier to accelerate
  92. Physicists warn of 'catastrophic' impact from UK science cuts
  93. The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing
  94. Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight
  95. Synchronised volcanic eruptions on Io hint at a spongy interior
  96. New Scientist recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
  97. Moving inductions to early morning could shorten labour by 6 hours
  98. Sebastião Salgado's stunning shots of the world's icy regions
  99. A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture
  100. Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards

Slashdot

  1. IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization
  2. Linus Torvalds: Someone 'More Competent Who Isn't Afraid of Numbers Past the Teens' Will Take Over Linux One Day
  3. 'How Many AIs Does It Take To Read a PDF?'
  4. Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
  5. Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
  6. PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump
  7. Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds
  8. Stressful People in Your Life Could Be Adding Months To Your Biological Age
  9. Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too
  10. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Calculate AI's Contribution To U.S. Growth May Be Basically Zero
  11. Is AI Impacting Which Programming Language Projects Use?
  12. Rule-Breaking Black Hole Growing At 13x the Cosmic 'Speed Limit' Challenges Theories
  13. Should Job-Seekers Stop Using AI to Write Their Resumes?
  14. Raspberry Pi Stock Rises Over Its Possible Use With OpenClaw's AI Agents
  15. Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Two UX Improvements to a Centuries-Old Japanese Portable Light Source
  2. S-Moove's Low-Tech Cantilever Trick for Transformable Furniture
  3. Good Design: SEVAS Object Simplifies Capturing, Using Wasted Shower Water
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-17-26 to 2-20-26)
  5. Vipera: Powered Skis
  6. Clever Amish Design for a Low-Tech, Gravity-Based Tool Holder
  7. A West German Folding Military Case from 1965
  8. Alternative UI Design: The RollerMouse Red
  9. A Clever Way to Upcycle Unrecyclable Misprinted Money: Mold it Into Furniture
  10. From Switzerland, a Glass Fence that Turns Into a Glass Wall
  11. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Jon Marshall on Design's Material Reality
  12. A Trick for Extra Storage Space: Plumbing Cutout Drawers
  13. DARPA's Towable Anti-Piracy Measure
  14. Low-Cost Window Insulation: Bubble Wrap and Water
  15. Specialty Tool Design: An Automatic Wire Stripper and Crimper

CNET

  1. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 Is Days Away: Galaxy S26 Rumors, Release Date and More
  2. Is Amazon's Spring Sale Happening This Year? Here's How We're Getting Ready
  3. Nvidia Set to Launch Laptop Chip in the First Half of This Year
  4. What to Expect From Apple's March Event: New iPhones, iPads and MacBooks Expected Next Week
  5. Lost Power During a Winter Storm? You Can Still Save the Food in Your Fridge
  6. 8 Pantry Items That Home Cooks Are Sleeping on, According to Chefs
  7. Even Faster Than an Air Fryer: 'Golden Heater' Cooking Technology Makes Its Debut
  8. Apple Could Launch at Least 5 New Products, Including iPhone 17E, Next Week
  9. The Secret to a Perfect Grilled Cheese? Your Trusty Air Fryer
  10. Is It Snowing Where You Are? I Hope You Have a Roof Rake
  11. Half of US Adults Who Use Social Media Want Better Labels on AI Posts, CNET Finds
  12. Stop Using ChatGPT for Everything and Do These 11 Tasks Yourself
  13. I Tried Every Popular Frozen Fry Brand. This $3 Bag Blows Them Out of the Water
  14. The Best Blue Light Glasses of 2026 for Eyestrain and Sleep
  15. The Ultimate Guide to Seeing the Total Lunar Eclipse This March
  16. I Tested the Galaxy Z TriFold: Here's What I Liked and Disliked video
  17. Struggling in Pokemon Legends: Z-A? Here's How to Catch Strong Dragon Pokemon Early
  18. Phone-Maker Honor Will Unveil Its First Humanoid Robot Next Week
  19. The Ultimate Guide to Air Fryer Safety: 10 Things to Keep Out of the Basket
  20. Don't Buy the iPhone 16E Right Now Because the iPhone 17E Is 'Due Imminently'
  21. iPhone 17 vs. iPhone 16: Which Should You Buy?
  22. Best Humidifiers to Keep Your Home Comfortable and Healthy This Winter
  23. What's the Right Thermostat Temperature for Winter? Find Yours and Cut Your Heating Bills
  24. Apple TV: 26 of the Best TV Shows You're Probably Not Watching
  25. Don't Buy a Refurbished or Used Windows 10 Computer

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?
  2. Billions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is
  3. Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI
  4. Apple’s newest AirTags are already on sale if you’re looking to upgrade
  5. The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app that shares multiple predictions
  6. Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash
  7. Kohler’s new shower reuses dirty water to get you clean
  8. Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?
  9. Yep, it’s fast: Donut Lab’s solid-state battery gets its first test result
  10. AOC’s 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED gaming monitor is down to $380

Wired

  1. Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party
  2. The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year
  3. Lamborghini is the Latest Automaker to Pull the Plug on Luxury EVs
  4. Best Puffer Jacket (2026): Patagonia, Arc’teryx, REI
  5. The Best iPad to Buy (and Some to Avoid) in 2026
  6. Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
  7. NASA Delays Launch of Artemis II Lunar Mission Once Again
  8. What to Know About At-Home STI Tests: Pros, Cons, and Recommendations (2026)
  9. What Is Down Fill Power (2026): Fill Weight, Synthetics
  10. How to Hide Google’s AI Overviews From Your Search Results
  11. Creatine Supplements Are Everywhere. Do I Need Them? (2026)
  12. How to View the ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3
  13. Best Electric Toothbrush, Backed by Real-Life Testing (2026)
  14. Sony’s WH-CH720N headphones offer excellent value at full price, but right now they're a steal.
  15. Souvenirs From the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Being Resold for Big Bucks Online
  16. Best Budget Monitors: I Found 3 Impressive Screens Under $200 (2026)
  17. 6 Best Phones With Headphone Jacks (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  18. Password Managers Share a Hidden Weakness
  19. You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line
  20. iRestore Elite Laser Hair Growth System Review: Surprisingly Effective

LifeHacker

  1. AI-Generated Playlists, a New Look, and Other Changes Coming to Apple Music
  2. I Love This Portable Projector, and This Bundle Makes It an Even Better Deal
  3. 10 Hacks Every PS5 Gamer Should Know
  4. The Best Samsung Galaxy Watch for Most People Is 41% Off Right Now
  5. 10 Hacks Every WhatsApp User Should Know
  6. 25 of the Best New Movies Streaming on HBO Max
  7. All the Ways You Can Customize Notifications on Android Auto
  8. 10 Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know
  9. The 25 Best Movies Streaming on Tubi Right Now
  10. These 'Job Applications' Are Actually Scams
  11. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Baby Boo Syndrome'?
  12. The Newest Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Is $150 Off Right Now
  13. These Beats ANC Earbuds Are $100 Off Right Now
  14. These Collapsible Tools Are Perfect for Homes With Limited Storage
  15. AI Could Make Your Next TV More Expensive
  16. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  17. Here's Why You Should Never Use AI to Generate Your Passwords
  18. This 27-Inch LG 4K Monitor Just Dropped to Under $200
  19. Google Chrome Now Has Split View (and Two More New Productivity Features)
  20. This Is Your Chance to Get a 65-Inch OLED TV for $900
  21. Now That Trump's Tariffs Have Been Ruled Illegal, Will Tech Prices Lower?
  22. WhatsApp Now Lets You Share Group Message History With New Members
  23. Google Made an iPhone Camera App That Might Be Even Better Than Apple’s
  24. Meta Is Taking VR Out of 'Horizon Worlds'
  25. This Arlo Four-Camera Kit Is $70 Off Right Now
  26. This Highly Rated Samsung OLED TV Is $800 Off Right Now
  27. Why Cardio and Strength Training Are Both Important
  28. Rumors Suggest Apple and Meta Are Betting Big on AI Wearables
  29. Microsoft Is Now Testing a 'Built-In' Network Speed Test Tool in Windows 11
  30. I Was Skeptical of This Music App That Claims to Help With Focus, but It Actually Worked for Me
  31. Google Maps Now Makes You Log In to See These Key Features
  32. You Can Finally Back Up Your Android's Local Files
  33. Samsung’s Brightest OLED TV Is Now Over $1,000 Off
  34. The Best Sales on Headphones and Earbuds Right Now
  35. Eight Gadgets That Can Turn Your Microwave Into a More Versatile Appliance
  36. What It Actually Means to 'Tone' Your Muscles
  37. Some Samsung Users Are Already Reporting Dead Screens on Their $2,900 Galaxy Z TriFold Phones
  38. This iPhone Feature Can Save Your Life in an Emergency
  39. This Samsung Galaxy Watch Is the One I’d Recommend to Athletes and Adventurers, and It’s $150 Off
  40. The 30 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now
  41. Five Ways to 'Fix' Your iPhone's Keyboard
  42. This Massive Samsung Smart TV Is $500 Off Right Now
  43. These Highly Rated OnePlus Earbuds Are Cheaper Than Ever Right Now
  44. 12 Shows Like 'The Beast in Me' You Should Watch Next
  45. You Can Preorder the Google Pixel 10a for $500 and Get a $100 Amazon Gift Card
  46. Apple Is Adding ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to CarPlay in iOS 26.4
  47. My Favorite 'Glances' From Garmin’s Latest Software Update
  48. Google I/O 2026: How to Watch and What We Know so Far
  49. Meta Is Planning to Bring Back Facial Recognition
  50. What Are Heart Rate Zones, and How Can You Find Yours?
  51. My Favorite Ways to Upgrade a Laundry Room on a Budget
  52. The Ultrawide Gaming Monitor I Wish I Owned Is Over $350 Off
  53. Gemini Now Lets You Generate AI Music for Free
  54. The Rise of Longevity Fitness
  55. Google's Pixel 10a Isn't Much of an Upgrade From the Pixel 9a
  56. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is This February an Unusually Lucky Month?
  57. Samsung’s Newest Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is Over 50% Off Right Now
  58. This Eufy Smart Lock With Local Storage Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  59. My Favorite Ways to Upgrade a Shower Without Spending Much Money
  60. Here Are the New Features Coming in iOS 26.4
  61. Update Chrome ASAP to Patch This High-Severity Security Flaw
  62. The Best Last-Minute Tech Deals From Amazon's Presidents Day Sale
  63. This Ultra-Wide Curved Gaming Monitor Is Still $200 for Presidents Day
  64. When to Choose Resistance Bands vs. Dumbbells
  65. Microsoft Just Patched a Major Security Vulnerability for This Popular Windows App
  66. Google's Pixel Watch 3 Is Still a Great Fitness Watch, and It’s $129 Off Right Now
  67. These Workout-Ready Beats Earbuds Are On Sale for $135 Right Now
  68. Apple Music Will Soon Let You Generate Playlists With AI
  69. This High-Capacity Anker Power Bank Gives You 200W Portable Charging for Just $80
  70. Apple's Next macOS Update Could Extend the Lifespan of Your MacBook's Battery
  71. 10 Shows Like 'Ponies' You Should Watch Next
  72. How DuckDuckGo's New Encrypted Voice AI Chat Compares With ChatGPT and Gemini
  73. This Shortcut Solves the Biggest Issue With Finding Messages on Your iPhone
  74. Four Ways to Recover Your 'Lost' Work in Microsoft Word
  75. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is a 'Bebot Girl'?
  76. These Three Claude Premium AI Features Are Now Available for Free
  77. No, a Sauna Isn't a Substitute for Exercise
  78. OpenAI Actually Shut Down GPT-4o
  79. These Malicious AI Assistants in Chrome Are Stealing User Credentials
  80. These Viture Luma Pro Smart Glasses Are Cheaper Than Ever During Amazon's Early Presidents Day Sale
  81. You Can Pick Up a Refurbished Kindle Paperwhite for $115 During Amazon’s Early Presidents Day Sale
  82. The Easiest (and Cheapest) Ways to Turn Your Attic Into Useful Storage Space
  83. 10 Hacks for Hanging Pictures Perfectly Every Time
  84. This Rugged Action Camera Is Nearly $90 Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  85. Ring Just Ended Its Controversial Partnership With Flock Safety
  86. This Premium Sony Soundbar Is More Than 50% Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  87. Claude Has a Surprisingly Great Way to Add Multiple Appointments to Your Calendar at Once
  88. 12 Shows Like 'Silo' You Should Watch Next
  89. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  90. YouTube Finally Released an App for the Apple Vision Pro
  91. Samsung Will Give You Up to $900 If You Trade Your Phone in for a Galaxy S26
  92. When You Need to Do 'Activation Exercises' (and When You Don't)
  93. This Ultra-Wide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $800 Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  94. Apple and Google Just Made It Easier to Switch Between iPhone and Android
  95. The Steam Deck Is Completely Sold Out Right Now, and Valve Hasn't Told Us Why
  96. Apple Just Patched Its First Zero-Day Security Vulnerability of 2026
  97. Apple's Big AI Siri Plans Are Once Again Delayed
  98. My Favorite Smart Lock Bundle I Use at My Own Home Is Down to $93 During This Early Presidents Day Sale
  99. AI Chatbots Are Even Worse at Giving Medical Advice Than We Thought
  100. These Noise-Cancelling JBL Headphones Turned Me Into an Audio Snob

The Onion

The Register

  1. Google Antigravity falls to Earth under OpenClaw-fueled compute load
  2. Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says
  3. Infosec community panics as Anthropic rolls out Claude code security checker
  4. Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs
  5. Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI
  6. Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay
  7. Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules
  8. Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty
  9. Gemini users say their chat histories have quietly vanished
  10. O say, can you see: FCC pushes patriotic programming for US 250th
  11. Ex-Amazon UK boss lined up to chair Britain's competition watchdog
  12. Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans
  13. Suspected Anonymous members detained in Spain over post-flood DDoS blitz
  14. AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign
  15. Workaholic open source developers need to take breaks
  16. Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing
  17. Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse
  18. Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
  19. NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter’s ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate
  20. Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them
  21. Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day
  22. Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records
  23. UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints
  24. Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers
  25. Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone
  26. SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping
  27. The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense
  28. PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions
  29. Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs
  30. AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
  31. SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists
  32. Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE
  33. ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
  34. Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS
  35. Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed
  36. Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs
  37. Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work
  38. Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play
  39. Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame
  40. EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs
  41. CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug
  42. From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding
  43. Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
  44. Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine
  45. HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears
  46. Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos
  47. Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him
  48. India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook
  49. AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures
  50. Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT

TechMeme

  1. IBM shares fall 12%+ after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization (Pia Singh/CNBC)
  2. Amazon plans to invest $12B in new data centers in Louisiana and says it worked with the local utility "to ensure we pay 100% of the costs" tied to the campus (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
  3. Some AI startups are boosting their valuations by raising capital in back-to-back or multitiered deals, raising questions about how much they are really worth (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
  4. Ubicquia, which provides software to utilities, cities, and companies to manage energy infrastructure like transformers, raised a $106M Series D (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
  5. Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)
  7. Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7%+; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)
  8. Sources: Trump's "Board of Peace" is exploring a USD-pegged stablecoin for Gaza; a source says it will not be a "Gaza Coin" or a new Palestinian currency (Financial Times)
  9. Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after its stock fell ~46% over the last 12 months, giving PayPal a market value of ~$38.4B (Bloomberg)
  10. Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI (Anthropic)
  11. Finnish quantum computing company IQM plans to go public via a SPAC merger with New Jersey-based Real Asset Acquisition in a deal set to value it at $1.8B (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
  12. OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
  13. Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the "Xbox everywhere" strategy (Tom Warren/The Verge)
  14. Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First Action begins running ads urging AI regulations in New Jersey; the PAC raised nearly $50M and now aims to raise $75M (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
  15. Aalyria, a Google spinoff whose software allows routing of traffic across diverse satellite platforms in low earth orbit, raised $100M at a $1.3B valuation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)