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BBC

  1. Epstein files could be just tip of the iceberg for Andrew investigation
  2. An unprecedented moment for the UK - and a former prince
  3. Read King and police statements in full
  4. What happens next after Andrew's arrest?
  5. He told police his XL bullies were friendly – days later his mother-in-law was mauled to death
  6. UK has not given US permission to use RAF bases for Iran strikes
  7. Single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all colds and flus, researchers say
  8. SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium
  9. Arrest after two teens found dead at holiday park
  10. Trump's Board of Peace members pledge $7bn in Gaza relief
  11. GB's Atkin qualifies top for halfpipe final
  12. GB women out of curling as USA beat Swiss in extra-end thriller
  13. Rapid runs and heavy snowfall - Skimo's Olympic debut
  14. Gaffe-ridden Olympic commentary prompts Italy's Rai sport chief to resign
  15. What we learned from the first trailer for the new Peaky Blinders film
  16. Yes there is a right way to stack the dishwasher. Here are the 5 rules
  17. What could happen if the US strikes Iran? Here are seven scenarios
  18. I thought being deaf would mean I couldn't be a dating show contestant - now I'm starring in one
  19. Why there's no quick fix in sight for the problem of dazzling headlights
  20. Cornish village endures 50 consecutive days of rain
  21. Detained British woman describes life in Iran jail hours before being sentenced to 10 years
  22. Trump-appointed panel approves White House ballroom project
  23. Lobbying firm co-founded by Mandelson on brink of collapse
  24. Starmer appoints Dame Antonia Romeo as head of UK civil service
  25. Briton dies following motorbike crash in Thailand
  26. KPop stars scored the biggest global hit songs of 2025
  27. Climber survives 1,500ft fall before running four miles for help
  28. BBC News app
  29. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested
  30. Andrew arrest and UN fact-finding mission in Sudan
  31. GB men into Olympic final as women squeezed out

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Engadget

  1. Slay the Spire 2 will enter early access on March 5
  2. Sony is shutting down the studio behind the Demon's Souls remake
  3. Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists
  4. Here are my favorite things from Toy Fair 2026
  5. Ring could be planning to expand Search Party feature beyond dogs
  6. YouTube is bringing the Gemini-powered 'Ask' button to TVs
  7. Rivian rolls out an Apple Watch app with vehicle controls and digital key support
  8. Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process
  9. West Virginia is suing Apple alleging negligence over CSAM materials
  10. Nintendo announces surprise Switch 2 version of sci-fi RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition
  11. Proton VPN two-year subscriptions are 70 percent off right now
  12. Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack is cheaper than ever
  13. The latest 45W Anker Nano charger with smart display is $10 off right now
  14. Russia's recent blocking of Telegram is reportedly disrupting its military operations in Ukraine
  15. Get a four-pack of first-gen AirTags for only $64
  16. Grab this Elevation Lab 10-year extended battery case for AirTag for only $16
  17. Meta reportedly plans to release a smartwatch this year
  18. The 16 best portable Bluetooth speakers for 2026
  19. Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be 'useful'
  20. Dyson announces the PencilWash wet floor cleaner
  21. Gemini can now generate a 30-second approximation of what real music sounds like
  22. Cyberpunk platformer Replaced has once again been delayed
  23. The best VPN deals: Up to 87 percent off ProtonVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, NordVPN and more
  24. Nevada sues Kalshi for operating a sports gambling market without a license
  25. Here's what to expect at Apple's product launch event on March 4
  26. Spotify debuts SeatGeek integration for concert ticket sales
  27. Google Pixel 10a vs. Pixel 9a: What's changed and which one should you buy?
  28. Google's $500 Pixel 10a smartphone arrives on March 5
  29. Pixel 10a hands-on: Google locks down the midrange phone game
  30. Polestar unveils a station wagon version of the 4
  31. NordVPN deal: Get two years of the Complete plan for 70 percent off
  32. New users can get one year of access to Monarch Money for 50 percent off
  33. Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo'
  34. Tesla stops using 'Autopilot' to promote its EVs in California
  35. Meta will run AI in WhatsApp through NVIDIA's 'confidential computing'
  36. The best wireless workout headphones for 2026
  37. The best drone for 2026
  38. YouTube was down for thousands of users in the US
  39. Samsung teases mobile AI photography tools ahead of Unpacked
  40. Texas AG sues TP-Link over purported connection to China
  41. Google I/O 2026 is set for May 19 and 20
  42. Netflix is adapting the board game Ticket to Ride
  43. Save up to 81 percent on ExpressVPN two-year plans right now
  44. WordPress adds an AI assistant
  45. Netflix is streaming its first MMA fight on May 16
  46. The first full trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu is here
  47. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and The Witcher 3 are coming to Game Pass
  48. Snapchat is rolling out creator subscriptions
  49. Nintendo's Virtual Boy app is now available to download
  50. Amazon's Fire TV redesign is rolling out today

Pinboard

  1. 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.
  2. Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous • The Register — via @isaaclyman@toot.cafe boost of https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116080962456717302
  3. Poor Deming never stood a chance – Surfing Complexity
  4. Oat - Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
  5. 15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram » nvie.com
  6. Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago — In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
  7. What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You » Danny
  8. Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
  9. 0byte
  10. AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It — One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broade…
  11. Current | Terry Godier
  12. The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
  13. Just a moment... — This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy https://ift.tt/y5bdPcp engineering, design, inspiration, creatvity, construction, architecture
  14. Terminals should generate the 256-color palette — https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2023823975143665918 ;;; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057824 ;;;
  15. How to raise children • Buttondown — "My daughter turns 3 this month. I want to help her have fewer troubles than I did by teaching her about boundaries, values, independent thinking etc. I think if more kids learned this stuff, we’d have more good humans and fewer jerks. What do YOU think every kid should grow up knowing? …
  16. Trump Action Tracker | Keeping a tally of Trump's actions
  17. AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet - Jeff Geerling
  18. GitHub - zachlatta/freeflow: Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc — kevinold starred zachlatta/freeflow
  19. xkcd 2501 generator — X is second nature to us Y, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Z
  20. Cosmologically Unique IDs - Jason Fantl
  21. Deep Blue — We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work. We’re calling it Deep Blue.
  22. Nicolas Bustamante on X: "10 Years Building Vertical Software: My Perspective on the Selloff" / X
  23. A successful Git branching model » nvie.com — In this post I present a Git branching strategy for developing and releasing software as I’ve used it in many of my projects, and which has turned out to be very successful.
  24. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code | Christopher Krapu
  25. The AI Vampire. This was an unusually hard post to… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium
  26. A programmer's loss of identity - ratfactor
  27. Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css
  28. Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai
  29. microgpt — A GPT you can visualize in your broswer
  30. 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century | TIME
  31. The Promptware Kill Chain - Schneier on Security
  32. Fragments: February 18
  33. BLOG: How NOT to Answer the Salary Question - Leon Adato
  34. 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…
  35. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/2o3gHOm
  36. TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of — Scene+Heard
  37. About that Matt Shumer post that has nearly 50 million views — > All morning people have been asking me about a blog post by Matt Shumer that has gone viral, with nearly 50 million views on X. > It’s a masterpiece of hype, written in the style of the old direct marketing campaigns
  38. The story of the Triforce, a short-lived arcade platform based on the Nintendo GameCube, though mostly developed by Sega and Namco
  39. OpenFactBook — The community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook.
  40. Flashpoint Archive
  41. Visual Introduction to PyTorch | Hacker News
  42. An AI CEO finally said something honest : r/ExperiencedDevs
  43. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
  44. The Genius Of Lisp
  45. rodney — CLI tool for interacting with the web
  46. One page of async Rust – Tony Finch
  47. AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare — "Creating is energizing. Reviewing is draining. There's research on this - the psychological difference between generative tasks and evaluative tasks. Generative work gives you flow states. Evaluative work gives you decision fatigue."
  48. Walkman.land — The most complete portable pocket audio cassette player database. WML is a tribute to the Walkmans.
  49. Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor — Quick ASCII wireframe prototyping tool
  50. Run NanoClaw in Docker Shell Sandboxes | Docker — Learn how to run NanoClaw, a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a Docker Sandboxes shell sandbox for stronger isolation and proxy-managed API keys. NanoClaw already runs its agents in containers, so it’s security-conscious by design. But running the entire NanoClaw pr…
  51. ooh.directory — Here's my latest project: , a collection of hundreds of blogs. I was tired of hearing "no body blogs any more" and wanted to show that there are so. many. blogs! I have loads more blogs and features to add yet, and I hope you find something interesting.
  52. jamiepine/voicebox: The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS. — The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS.
  53. Force restart iPhone - Apple Support
  54. An AI haters guide to code with LLMs (The How-to) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time — Build Guard-rails Add more tests. Get the LLM to write tests, and to suggest tests to write. The effort required for testing is entirely different now: we have to read the tests and think about them just as much but that’s most of wh…
  55. Introducing Markdown for Agents
  56. A Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format · DBG.RE
  57. 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…
  58. Fast sorting, branchless by design - Frank DENIS random thoughts.
  59. MonoSketch - Unleash your ideas with ASCII — MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.
  60. Detail · Where craft lives — A curated study of the tiny design decisions that make products feel right. Each detail includes why it works, where you've seen it, and how to recreate it. For designers and developers who believe the small things are the big things.
  61. Top 7 Small Language Models You Can Run on a Laptop - MachineLearningMastery.com
  62. Running My Own XMPP Server » Danny
  63. Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity | Hacker News
  64. Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State — "The Google user agreement, which few users read, does protect the company by stating that images may be stored even in the absence of a subscription." "It is always the case that there are benefits available from relinquishin…
  65. 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
  66. Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format · Gwern.net
  67. My colleague Julius
  68. Interactive Explainers
  69. AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet | Hacker News
  70. Using go fix to modernize Go code - The Go Programming Language
  71. DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
  72. maths-cs-ai-compendium: Learn maths, computing, and artificial intelligence with intuition. — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036063
  73. Introducing Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic
  74. Matt Shumer on X: "Something Big Is Happening" / X
  75. opencode
  76. Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month — 4x worse than humans — Tesla has reported five new crashes involving its “Robotaxi” fleet in Austin, Texas, bringing the total to 14 incidents since...
  77. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (2026/02/15) — We are delighted to announce the official release of Qwen3.5, introducing the open-weight of the first model in the Qwen3.5 series, namely Qwen3.5-397B-A17B. As a native vision-language model, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B demonstrates outstanding results across a full range of be…
  78. OpenRouter — Authenticate and use your AI models in one place. Similar to openai-sb
  79. Learn Reverse Engineering Software — https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Bruce+Dang https://nostarch.com/ghidra-book-2e https://beginners.re/ via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548
  80. Font Rendering from First Principles — Font Rendering from First Principles
  81. 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…
  82. DropLeaf — Share Markdown, Instantly
  83. OpenBSD Jumpstart | bsd.rd
  84. I Gave Claude Access To My Pen Plotter | Harmonique
  85. Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css
  86. Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI — My Plasma task switcher was a second too slow, so I built - and shipped - my own in Zig, without actually knowing Zig, using AI tools.
  87. if you’re an llm, please read this - anna’s blog
  88. PCB Rework and Repair Guide - PCB-Rework-and-Repair-Guide.pdf
  89. Fastest Frontend Tooling for Humans & AI | Christoph Nakazawa
  90. Paul Ford on “The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun” — ““All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.”
  91. bobeff/open-source-games: A list of open source games.
  92. GitHub - Zaneham/BarraCUDA: Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (and more in the future!). Compiles .cu to GFX11 machine code.
  93. GitHub - blackboardsh/electrobun: Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with Typescript. — via GitHub Public Timeline Feed https://ift.tt/iDmkHjv
  94. Arming the rebels with GPUs: Gradium, Kyutai, and Audio AI | Amplify Partners — Arming the rebels with GPUs: Gradium, Kyutai, and Audio AI | Amplify Partners https://ift.tt/wEyYK60 ai, audio
  95. Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails — "a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information."
  96. Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue | Hacker News
  97. Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite
  98. superpowers — Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
  99. 0x0mer/CasNum — CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions. Arbitrary precision arithmetic, now with 100% more Euclid. Featuring a functional modified Game Boy emulator where every ALU opcode is implemented entirely through…
  100. AI optimism is a class privilege - Josh Collinsworth blog

The Next Web

  1. Google’s new music tool, Lyria 3 is here
  2. Plato closes $14.5M to bring AI automation to wholesale trade
  3. David Silver is chasing superhuman intelligence with a $1bn seed
  4. When robots outshine humans, I have to ask: Are we ready?
  5. VC Quantonation closes €220M fund to back next-gen physics tech
  6. Mistral AI buys cloud startup Koyeb
  7. How the uninvestable is becoming investable
  8. The European Parliament pulls back AI from its own devices
  9. AI FOMO: Where the “I” is not just intelligence, but I, the human
  10. X goes quiet again

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Outdoor Patio Heaters
  2. Peel-and-Stick Tiles Never Fooled Me. Then I Tried These Sheets of Lustrous Mother-of-Pearl.
  3. The Best Fast Chargers for Every Device
  4. The Best Underwear for Kids
  5. Cleaning Out Your Closet? Here Are 5 Ways to Repurpose Your Clothes.
  6. Here’s the Bathroom-Organizing Hack That My Wirecutter Colleagues Call ‘Genius’
  7. The Best Home Security System
  8. The Best Portable Monitors
  9. The Best Humidifier
  10. The Best Garment Bag

Sweethome

  1. The Best Outdoor Patio Heaters
  2. Peel-and-Stick Tiles Never Fooled Me. Then I Tried These Sheets of Lustrous Mother-of-Pearl.
  3. Here’s the Bathroom-Organizing Hack That My Wirecutter Colleagues Call ‘Genius’
  4. The Best Home Security System
  5. The Best Space Heaters
  6. The Best Humidifier
  7. Build a Bike Patch and Flat Kit
  8. The Slimmest, Hardest-Working Gear for Your Small Entryway
  9. The Best Quilts
  10. The Best Coat Racks

Hacker News

  1. Gemini 3.1 Pro
  2. Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
  3. Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
  4. AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
  5. A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
  6. America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
  7. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
  8. We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
  9. Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
  10. Pebble Production: February Update
  11. Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)
  12. US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
  13. Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
  14. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
  15. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
  16. Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia
  17. AI makes you boring
  18. California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
  19. Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
  20. Farewell, Rust for web
  21. Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves
  22. Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial
  23. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
  24. Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
  25. Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale
  26. Level of Detail
  27. Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation
  28. Voith Schneider Propeller
  29. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
  30. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)

Ars Technica

  1. Diablo II’s new Warlock is a great excuse to revisit a classic game
  2. From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round
  3. F1: Preseason tests show how different 2026 will be
  4. Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving
  5. Zero grip, maximum fun: A practical guide to getting into amateur ice racing
  6. OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use
  7. Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys
  8. Verizon acknowledges "pain" of new unlock policy, suggests change is coming
  9. Chevy Bolt, BMW i3, or something else? At $10K, you have lots of EV options
  10. Lawsuit: EPA revoking greenhouse gas finding risks “thousands of avoidable deaths”
  11. 5 changes to know about in Apple's latest iOS, macOS, and iPadOS betas
  12. Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
  13. FDA reverses surprise rejection of Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
  14. Record scratch—Google's Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today
  15. Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear
  16. X-rays reveal kingfisher feather structure in unprecedented detail
  17. Inside the DHS forum where ICE agents trash talk one another
  18. Hallucinogen DMT an effective antidepressant in small clinical trial
  19. GameHub will give Mac owners another imperfect way to play Windows games
  20. Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true

Digg

New Scientist

  1. New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs
  2. We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
  3. Atmospheric pollution caused by space junk could be a huge problem
  4. Why it's high time we stopped anthropomorphising ants
  5. Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?
  6. Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains
  7. Why some people cannot move on from the death of a loved one
  8. Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the boundaries of life
  9. Spruce trees stumped (sigh) when it comes to predicting eclipses
  10. Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts'
  11. More dog breeds found to have high risk of breathing condition
  12. Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds
  13. Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years
  14. Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and treat it
  15. How baby microbiomes in the West differ from those everywhere else
  16. Ultramarathons could be bad for your blood
  17. Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why
  18. Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowfall in part of Utah?
  19. Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
  20. The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human
  21. Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
  22. Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems in their sleep
  23. The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved
  24. Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just one dose
  25. Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update
  26. Rethinking our approach to BMI highlights the need for speed
  27. Intermittent fasting probably doesn’t help with weight loss
  28. Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
  29. Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?
  30. Why adding cross training into your exercise routine is the way to go
  31. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is
  32. Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel
  33. Your BMI can't tell you much about your health – here's what can
  34. These 5 diets could add years to your life even if you have bad genes
  35. World’s oldest cold virus found in 18th-century woman's lungs
  36. Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky
  37. Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures within our brain
  38. First ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer gets fast-tracked by FDA
  39. CAR T-cell therapy may slow neurodegenerative conditions like ALS
  40. New Scientist recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature
  41. Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases
  42. Why self-expansion is the key to long-lasting love and friendship
  43. RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins
  44. Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
  45. Endurance brain cells may determine how long you can run for
  46. Why I'm still an environmental optimist – despite it all
  47. The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed
  48. This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
  49. Royal Navy returns to wind power with trial of robotic sailboats
  50. 'Roughly 109.5 golden retrievers': a new way to measure ice
  51. What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick
  52. Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake
  53. Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
  54. Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity
  55. Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch for the first time
  56. Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?
  57. Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks
  58. Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs
  59. Why 1.5°C failed and setting a new limit would make things worse
  60. How clinical research is still failing underrepresented communities
  61. Specific cognitive training has 'astonishing' effect on dementia risk
  62. Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?
  63. 'Hidden' group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health
  64. Jeff Goldblum should make a film about this legendary mathematician
  65. Physicists can now take control of 'hidden' friction in devices
  66. Personalised medicine is yet to deliver, but that must start to change
  67. Statins don't cause most of the side effects listed on their labels
  68. Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago
  69. Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?
  70. Do weeds really love poor soil? Not if you look at the science
  71. Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer
  72. The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre's point
  73. Weakening ice shelf has caused crucial Antarctic glacier to accelerate
  74. Physicists warn of 'catastrophic' impact from UK science cuts
  75. The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing
  76. Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight
  77. Synchronised volcanic eruptions on Io hint at a spongy interior
  78. New Scientist recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
  79. Moving inductions to early morning could shorten labour by 6 hours
  80. Sebastião Salgado's stunning shots of the world's icy regions
  81. A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture
  82. Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards
  83. The toxic burden of pesticides is growing all around the world
  84. Methane surge in 2020 was linked to lower pollution during lockdowns
  85. Bonobo's pretend tea party shows capacity for imagination
  86. Fast-charging quantum battery built inside a quantum computer
  87. Nasal spray could prevent infections from any flu strain
  88. Vegan toddlers can grow at the same rate as omnivores
  89. How to live a meaningful life, according to science
  90. Why Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek
  91. Holy prosociality! Batman makes people stand for pregnant passengers
  92. Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic
  93. Psychedelic causes similar brain state to meditation
  94. A social network for AI looks disturbing, but it's not what you think
  95. Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials
  96. Forever chemical TFA has tripled due to ozone-preserving refrigerants
  97. Treating cancer before 3pm could help patients live longer
  98. Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder
  99. The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm
  100. Why did SpaceX just apply to launch 1 million satellites?

Slashdot

  1. China's Hottest App of 2026 Just Asks If You're Still Alive
  2. Microsoft's New 10,000-Year Data Storage Medium: Glass
  3. Europe's Labor Laws Are Strangling Its Ability To Innovate, New Analysis Argues
  4. Bafta To Reward 'Human Creativity' as Film and TV Grapples With AI
  5. LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
  6. A Half-Century of US Labor Data Shows Steady Retreat From Evening and Night Work
  7. New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools
  8. Accenture Links Staff Promotions To Use of AI Tools
  9. HR Teams Are Drowning in Slop Grievances
  10. The RAM Crunch Could Kill Products and Even Entire Companies, Memory Exec Admits
  11. Amazon Dethrones Walmart as World's Biggest Company by Sales
  12. A $10 Plastic Speaker is the Most Durable Revenue Line in Indian Digital Payments
  13. EV Sales Boom As Ethiopia Bans Fossil-Fuel Car Imports
  14. Claims That AI Can Help Fix Climate Dismissed As Greenwashing
  15. Trump Has Prepared Speech On Extraterrestrial Life

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Nendo Founder Oki Sato's Comic Strip is Hilarious
  2. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Montana Cherney on Design's Ripple Effects
  3. An Attractive, Functional Furniture Piece for Humans and Cats
  4. A Smart Production Hack for Welding a Pegged Grid
  5. Using Fusion? Apply for the 2026 Autodesk Fusion Prize
  6. Ronan Bouroullec's Cast Iron Trivet Necklace
  7. Footwear Startup Aims to Produce Injury-Reducing Sneakers
  8. Remedial Design: Apple TV's "I Couldn't Hear the Dialogue" Feature
  9. A Clever, Low-Tech, No-Robots Design for a Passive Tennis Partner
  10. Good Low-Tech Design: This Vet Care Meds Chart
  11. Next-Gen Composite Materials: Using Flax Rather than Carbon Fiber
  12. Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-2-26 to 2-6-26)
  13. Industrial Design Case Study: Nihaarika Arora's Jewelry Stand for the MoMA Design Store
  14.  Multi-Level Granny Cart Provides Way Better UX
  15. Industrial Design Student Work: Making Existing Bistro Chairs More Comfortable

CNET

  1. Zuckerberg's Trial Testimony Pushes Back on Social Media Addiction Claims
  2. T-Mobile vs. Verizon: Which Major Phone Carrier to Choose?
  3. Woody and Buzz Join Forces to Take On a Tablet in New 'Toy Story 5' Trailer
  4. T-Mobile Introduces Real-Time Live Translation in Its Network for Any Call
  5. Our Top-Rated Nugget Ice Maker Is Getting a Mini Version
  6. These Are the 9 Coolest Large Appliance Features Coming in 2026
  7. This Smart Fire System Uses Hidden Misters and Thermal Imaging to Protect Your Home
  8. The First Planet Parade in 2026 Begins This Weekend: How to See 6 Planets at Once
  9. The Best of KBIS 2026: Hidden Cooktops, Ice Makers and More Industry Firsts
  10. Protect Your Heart With These Expert-Approved Workouts
  11. How to Track Your Tax Refund From the IRS Directly to Your Bank Account
  12. 40 of the Best Movies on Netflix You Should Stream Now
  13. Sharp Invented a New High-Speed Cooking Technology Called the 'Golden Heater'
  14. Flying Without a Real ID? You May Owe an Additional $45 Fee
  15. Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold Review: A Pocket-Sized Powerhouse, but It's Not for Everyone
  16. From CIA Spies to Missing Persons: The Incredible Career of FBI K-9 Iris | Tech Today video
  17. Best VPN for Gaming in 2026: Lower Ping and Protect Against DDoS Attacks
  18. The Best Ice Makers of 2026 for All Different Ice Types
  19. Starforge Explorer III Pro Review: A Worthy Rival to DIY in Performance and Value
  20. Get Better Picture Quality by Changing These TV Settings
  21. Prime Video: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi TV Shows You Should Stream Now
  22. I Finally Tried Netflix Secret Codes and They Changed How I Watch Movies
  23. Best Smart Plugs for 2026: Enhance Any Plug-In Device
  24. Best Music Streaming Service for 2026
  25. To Find Images in Apple Photos, Forget Siri and Do It This Way Instead

Reddit

The Verge

  1. The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2026
  2. Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR
  3. After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions
  4. Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes
  5. The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster
  6. Baseus’ retractable, 6-in-1 travel adapter is on sale for its lowest price to date
  7. Texas is suing TP-Link over its ties to China
  8. Apple TV’s The Hunt finally has a premiere date
  9. West Virginia sues Apple for allegedly letting child abuse spread in iCloud
  10. New York drops plan to legalize robotaxis in setback for Waymo

Wired

  1. Donald Trump Jr.’s Private DC Club Has Mysterious Ties to an Ex-Cop With a Controversial Past
  2. The 10 Best Shows to Stream Right Now (February 2026)
  3. ‘Pew Pew’: The Chinese Companies Marketing Anti-Drone Weapons on TikTok
  4. Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
  5. Upgrade Your Computer Speakers With These Discounted Edifier M60s
  6. Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI
  7. Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
  8. DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir
  9. Best Unlimited Phone Plan: T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Compared (2026)
  10. 8 Best Computer Monitors (2026): Budget, OLED, 4K, and More
  11. 9 Best Android Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
  12. 8 Best Cheap Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  13. Best Home Gym Setup (2026): Adjustable Weights, Resistance Bands, and More
  14. Inside the Gay Tech Mafia
  15. Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 Review: Stronger Build, Sweeter Sound
  16. This AI Tool Will Tell You to Stop Slacking Off
  17. How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance
  18. Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony
  19. The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2 Headphones Are at Their Lowest Price in Months
  20. This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up

LifeHacker

  1. Samsung’s Brightest OLED TV Is Now Over $1,000 Off
  2. The Best Sales on Headphones and Earbuds Right Now
  3. Eight Gadgets That Can Turn Your Microwave Into a More Versatile Appliance
  4. What It Actually Means to 'Tone' Your Muscles
  5. Some Samsung Users Are Already Reporting Dead Screens on Their $2,900 Galaxy Z TriFold Phones
  6. This iPhone Feature Can Save Your Life in an Emergency
  7. This Samsung Galaxy Watch Is the One I’d Recommend to Athletes and Adventurers, and It’s $150 Off
  8. The 30 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now
  9. Five Ways to 'Fix' Your iPhone's Keyboard
  10. This Massive Samsung Smart TV Is $500 Off Right Now
  11. These Highly Rated OnePlus Earbuds Are Cheaper Than Ever Right Now
  12. 12 Shows Like 'The Beast in Me' You Should Watch Next
  13. You Can Preorder the Google Pixel 10a for $500 and Get a $100 Amazon Gift Card
  14. Apple Is Adding ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to CarPlay in iOS 26.4
  15. My Favorite 'Glances' From Garmin’s Latest Software Update
  16. Google I/O 2026: How to Watch and What We Know so Far
  17. Meta Is Planning to Bring Back Facial Recognition
  18. What Are Heart Rate Zones, and How Can You Find Yours?
  19. My Favorite Ways to Upgrade a Laundry Room on a Budget
  20. The Ultrawide Gaming Monitor I Wish I Owned Is Over $350 Off
  21. Gemini Now Lets You Generate AI Music for Free
  22. The Rise of Longevity Fitness
  23. Google's Pixel 10a Isn't Much of an Upgrade From the Pixel 9a
  24. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is This February an Unusually Lucky Month?
  25. Samsung’s Newest Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is Over 50% Off Right Now
  26. This Eufy Smart Lock With Local Storage Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  27. My Favorite Ways to Upgrade a Shower Without Spending Much Money
  28. Here Are the New Features Coming in iOS 26.4
  29. Update Chrome ASAP to Patch This High-Severity Security Flaw
  30. The Best Last-Minute Tech Deals From Amazon's Presidents Day Sale
  31. This Ultra-Wide Curved Gaming Monitor Is Still $200 for Presidents Day
  32. When to Choose Resistance Bands vs. Dumbbells
  33. Microsoft Just Patched a Major Security Vulnerability for This Popular Windows App
  34. Google's Pixel Watch 3 Is Still a Great Fitness Watch, and It’s $129 Off Right Now
  35. These Workout-Ready Beats Earbuds Are On Sale for $135 Right Now
  36. Apple Music Will Soon Let You Generate Playlists With AI
  37. This High-Capacity Anker Power Bank Gives You 200W Portable Charging for Just $80
  38. Apple's Next macOS Update Could Extend the Lifespan of Your MacBook's Battery
  39. 10 Shows Like 'Ponies' You Should Watch Next
  40. How DuckDuckGo's New Encrypted Voice AI Chat Compares With ChatGPT and Gemini
  41. This Shortcut Solves the Biggest Issue With Finding Messages on Your iPhone
  42. Four Ways to Recover Your 'Lost' Work in Microsoft Word
  43. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is a 'Bebot Girl'?
  44. These Three Claude Premium AI Features Are Now Available for Free
  45. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals During Early Presidents Day Sales
  46. No, a Sauna Isn't a Substitute for Exercise
  47. OpenAI Actually Shut Down GPT-4o
  48. These Malicious AI Assistants in Chrome Are Stealing User Credentials
  49. These Viture Luma Pro Smart Glasses Are Cheaper Than Ever During Amazon's Early Presidents Day Sale
  50. You Can Pick Up a Refurbished Kindle Paperwhite for $115 During Amazon’s Early Presidents Day Sale
  51. The Easiest (and Cheapest) Ways to Turn Your Attic Into Useful Storage Space
  52. 10 Hacks for Hanging Pictures Perfectly Every Time
  53. This Rugged Action Camera Is Nearly $90 Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  54. Ring Just Ended Its Controversial Partnership With Flock Safety
  55. This Premium Sony Soundbar Is More Than 50% Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  56. Claude Has a Surprisingly Great Way to Add Multiple Appointments to Your Calendar at Once
  57. 12 Shows Like 'Silo' You Should Watch Next
  58. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  59. YouTube Finally Released an App for the Apple Vision Pro
  60. Samsung Will Give You Up to $900 If You Trade Your Phone in for a Galaxy S26
  61. When You Need to Do 'Activation Exercises' (and When You Don't)
  62. This Ultra-Wide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $800 Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  63. Apple and Google Just Made It Easier to Switch Between iPhone and Android
  64. The Steam Deck Is Completely Sold Out Right Now, and Valve Hasn't Told Us Why
  65. Apple Just Patched Its First Zero-Day Security Vulnerability of 2026
  66. Apple's Big AI Siri Plans Are Once Again Delayed
  67. My Favorite Smart Lock Bundle I Use at My Own Home Is Down to $93 During This Early Presidents Day Sale
  68. AI Chatbots Are Even Worse at Giving Medical Advice Than We Thought
  69. These Noise-Cancelling JBL Headphones Turned Me Into an Audio Snob
  70. This Apple Watch Series 9 With Cellular Connectivity Is 25% Off Right Now
  71. The Samsung Galaxy S25 FE Is $200 Off Right Now
  72. Two Years Later, Is the Apple Vision Pro Even Worth It
  73. The Telegram App Has a New Look, and a Weird New Feature
  74. TikTok's First US-Exclusive Feature Is a Local Feed That Wants Your Location Data
  75. How Deep Should You Squat?
  76. The Premium Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra Is on Sale for $368 Right Now
  77. Apple Just Released iOS 26.3 With These New Features
  78. This Aggressive Spyware Is Targeting Both Android and iOS Devices
  79. This Budget-Friendly Asus Gaming Monitor Is 25% Off Right Now
  80. These Skullcandy Headphones Are Over 50% Off Right Now
  81. How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?
  82. Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday Update Fixes Six Zero-Day Exploits
  83. How to Get Access to T-Mobile’s Free Live Translation Beta
  84. The Best Kitchen Gadgets to Make Cooking Weeknight Dinners So Much Easier
  85. These Shokz Open-Ear Earbuds Are Over 30% Off Right Now
  86. How to Browse the Dark Web
  87. Claim Your Payout From the 23andMe Data Breach Before It's Too Late
  88. The 2024 Kindle Scribe With Premium Pen Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  89. These Nothing Headphones Are at Their Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  90. The 25 Horniest Horror Movies of All Time
  91. What to Do If (or When) Your Email Is Leaked to the Dark Web
  92. Discord Might Force You to Prove Your Age to Avoid Losing Features
  93. Don't Buy a Power Station During an Emergency, Buy One When It's Half Off (Like Right Now)
  94. WhatsApp's Web App Is Getting a Huge Upgrade
  95. Here's How Long You Should Rest Between Workout Sets
  96. The 'Batman: Arkham Shadow' Meta Quest 3S Bundle Is on Sale
  97. Bluesky Finally Has Drafts
  98. This LG 77-Inch OLED TV Is Half Off Right Now
  99. AI-Generated Playlists Are Coming to YouTube Music
  100. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is Snow Fake?

The Onion

The Register

  1. NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle
  2. Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race
  3. Spending watchdog tells National Science Foundation CIO to up game on tech procurement
  4. Crims hit a $20M jackpot via malware-stuffed ATMs
  5. Don't believe the hyperscalers! AI can't cure the climate crisis
  6. Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking
  7. Android malware taps Gemini to navigate infected devices
  8. DOGE bites taxman
  9. US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians
  10. DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events
  11. AI agents can't teach themselves new tricks – only people can
  12. UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours
  13. Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best
  14. AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it
  15. Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it
  16. OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years
  17. Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases
  18. Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk
  19. Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years
  20. Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant
  21. As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered
  22. Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator
  23. ShinyHunters claims it drove off with 1.7M CarGurus records
  24. Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal
  25. Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read
  26. DARPA's autonomous missile-firing missile advances toward flight tests
  27. Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say
  28. Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives
  29. Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities
  30. Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes
  31. 6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom
  32. Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way
  33. Tesla drops 'Autopilot' branding in California after DMV order
  34. Cabinet Office probes digital ID minister over think tank's journalist investigation
  35. Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions
  36. Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable'
  37. You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
  38. Windows 11 Start menu makes unscheduled stop in Saint Moritz
  39. Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia
  40. HackerOne 'updating' Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they're training AI
  41. Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle
  42. Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
  43. Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone ‘patent tax’ case
  44. Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet
  45. Indian conglomerate Adani plans very slow $100 billion AI datacenter build
  46. Anthropic's latest Sonnet gets better at using computers, amid bouts of existential angst
  47. China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection
  48. Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better
  49. Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow
  50. Infosys bows to its master, signs deal with Anthropic

TechMeme

  1. Meta says it is "explicitly separating" Quest VR from its Worlds platform, making Worlds "almost exclusively mobile", letting it better compete with Roblox (Jay Peters/The Verge)
  2. Docs: DHS has signed a five-year, $1B blanket purchase agreement with Palantir, allowing agencies like ICE to skip the competitive bidding process (Makena Kelly/Wired)
  3. CZ returned to the US for the first time since his release from prison in 2024, to attend a WLF event at Mar-a-Lago attended by Brian Armstrong and others (Wall Street Journal)
  4. Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (Reece Rogers/Wired)
  5. Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
  6. Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (The Information)
  7. Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
  8. Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular modules used in IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B as the US seeks to reduce its reliance on China (Chris Metinko/Axios)
  9. New York pulls a proposal that would have allowed for robotaxi services outside NYC, a setback for Waymo, which wants to hit 1M paid weekly US rides by 2026 end (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
  10. Inside the "gay tech mafia" that mixes social and professional lives, as investors, entrepreneurs, and executives detail gay influence in Silicon Valley (Zoë Bernard/Wired)
  11. Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is "a step forward in core reasoning", for all users in the Gemini app; the .1 increment is a first for Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)
  12. Austin-based Ownwell, which helps homeowners appeal property taxes, raised a $50M Series B, including $30M in equity, bringing its total equity funding to $54M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
  13. ZaiNar, a developer of a GPS alternative that uses Wi-Fi and 5G to provide location data, raised $10M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $100M (Katie Roof/The Information)
  14. West Virginia's AG sues Apple for allegedly violating consumer protection law by not implementing tools like PhotoDNA to detect CSAM stored and shared on iCloud (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
  15. FreeForm, which is building an AI native 3D printing system that uses 18 lasers to fuse metal powders into precision components, raised a $67M Series B (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)