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BBC

  1. Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession
  2. Andrew and King Charles, a personal battle of royal brothers
  3. Humans to travel further into space than ever before as Nasa confirms March Moon mission
  4. Tributes paid to teens who died at holiday park
  5. Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US
  6. Sam Fender and Olivia Dean finally reach number one after 35 weeks
  7. KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge
  8. Life sentences for teens after racist murder of stranger delivering food to his mum
  9. UK agrees drone defence plan with four EU allies
  10. Man charged with raping unconscious wife with other men for years
  11. Met asks Andrew's protection officers what they saw or heard in Epstein inquiry
  12. What happens next for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?
  13. A tip-off and 'more luck than judgement': The story behind Andrew car snap
  14. How Andrew's 11-hour detention on his birthday played out
  15. 'The arrogance of XL bully owner killed our mum'
  16. Tariffs ruling is major blow to Trump's second-term agenda
  17. How Eric Dane gave his final months to 'moving the needle' on ALS
  18. The Russian village that lost its men to war
  19. How a Zoom call led to a semi-pro table tennis player featuring in Marty Supreme
  20. My 24-hour Winter Olympics trip cost me £135 - the same as going to a football match
  21. Weekly quiz: Why was the mysterious fossil 'smiling' at the beachcomber?
  22. Neutral athletes allowed to attend closing ceremony
  23. GB '25 years' behind world's best in short track
  24. 'I'm on right side' - Team GB's Kenworthy on death threats after ICE post
  25. GB's Kenworthy in halfpipe final - Friday's guide
  26. Woody and Buzz reunite in trailer for Toy Story 5
  27. Bishop of Lincoln arrested in sexual assault inquiry
  28. Dog trained to illegally dump rubbish, Italian authorities say
  29. Ratcliffe avoids FA charge over immigration comments
  30. UK Athletics pleads guilty to corporate manslaughter of Paralympian
  31. Higher tax helped UK government reach record January surplus
  32. Break from wintry weather as UK temperatures to climb as high as 14C
  33. BBC News app
  34. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested
  35. Who is Tucker Carlson and what does he tell us about the future of MAGA?
  36. A star-filled, jaw-dropping black comedy
  37. Four men, one aim - to end 102-year wait for Winter Olympic curling gold
  38. 'Wonderfully different' Pollock ready to fire up England
  39. Table-punching injury left Menzies close to quitting darts
  40. Who are the winners and losers from F1 pre-season testing?
  41. Svitolina beats Gauff in epic to reach Dubai final
  42. Mourinho made 'unacceptable, huge mistake' - Kompany

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Xbox head Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft
  2. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: The Galaxy S26 and other devices that might launch on February 25
  3. Tunic publisher claims TikTok ran 'racist, sexist' AI ads for one of its games without its knowledge
  4. OpenAI will reportedly release an AI-powered smart speaker in 2027
  5. 13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools
  6. NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch to take astronauts around the Moon
  7. Ubisoft lays off 40 staff working on Splinter Cell remake, says game remains in development
  8. Engadget Podcast: Instagram on trial and the RAMaggedon rages on
  9. US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content
  10. LA County lawsuit accuses Roblox of exposing children to 'grooming and exploitation'
  11. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Switch next week for the series’ 30th anniversary
  12. The Morning After: What to expect from Apple’s March 4 hardware event
  13. Samsung updates Bixby to become more conversational
  14. Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025
  15. The best streaming services in 2026
  16. The best cheap Android phones to buy in 2026
  17. Apple inks deal for IMAX screenings of live Formula 1 races
  18. Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first
  19. Slay the Spire 2 will enter early access on March 5
  20. Sony is shutting down the studio behind the Demon's Souls remake
  21. Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists
  22. Here are my favorite things from Toy Fair 2026
  23. Ring could be planning to expand Search Party feature beyond dogs
  24. YouTube is bringing the Gemini-powered 'Ask' button to TVs
  25. Rivian rolls out an Apple Watch app with vehicle controls and digital key support
  26. Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process
  27. West Virginia is suing Apple alleging negligence over CSAM materials
  28. Nintendo announces surprise Switch 2 version of sci-fi RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition
  29. Proton VPN two-year subscriptions are 70 percent off right now
  30. Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack is cheaper than ever
  31. The latest 45W Anker Nano charger with smart display is $10 off right now
  32. Russia's recent blocking of Telegram is reportedly disrupting its military operations in Ukraine
  33. Get a four-pack of first-gen AirTags for only $64
  34. Grab this Elevation Lab 10-year extended battery case for AirTag for only $16
  35. Meta reportedly plans to release a smartwatch this year
  36. The 16 best portable Bluetooth speakers for 2026
  37. Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be 'useful'
  38. Dyson announces the PencilWash wet floor cleaner
  39. Gemini can now generate a 30-second approximation of what real music sounds like
  40. Cyberpunk platformer Replaced has once again been delayed
  41. The best VPN deals: Up to 87 percent off ProtonVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, NordVPN and more
  42. Nevada sues Kalshi for operating a sports gambling market without a license
  43. Here's what to expect at Apple's product launch event on March 4
  44. Spotify debuts SeatGeek integration for concert ticket sales
  45. Google Pixel 10a vs. Pixel 9a: What's changed and which one should you buy?
  46. Google's $500 Pixel 10a smartphone arrives on March 5
  47. Pixel 10a hands-on: Google locks down the midrange phone game
  48. Polestar unveils a station wagon version of the 4
  49. NordVPN deal: Get two years of the Complete plan for 70 percent off
  50. New users can get one year of access to Monarch Money for 50 percent off

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. 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…
  3. 15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram » nvie.com
  4. Poor Deming never stood a chance – Surfing Complexity
  5. Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous • The Register — via @isaaclyman@toot.cafe boost of https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116080962456717302
  6. Current | Terry Godier
  7. 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.”
  8. Terminals should generate the 256-color palette — https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2023823975143665918 ;;; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057824 ;;;
  9. Cosmologically Unique IDs - Jason Fantl
  10. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/2o3gHOm
  11. 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? …
  12. Oat - Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
  13. Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
  14. 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
  15. Trump Action Tracker | Keeping a tally of Trump's actions
  16. The AI Vampire. This was an unusually hard post to… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium
  17. What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You » Danny
  18. 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.
  19. TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of — Scene+Heard
  20. 0byte
  21. Fragments: February 18
  22. Sandboxels — A chunky pixel-based simulator, really fun.
  23. OpenFactBook — The community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook.
  24. xkcd 2501 generator — X is second nature to us Y, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Z
  25. A programmer's loss of identity - ratfactor
  26. GitHub - zachlatta/freeflow: Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc — kevinold starred zachlatta/freeflow
  27. A Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format · DBG.RE
  28. micasa — your house, in a terminal
  29. 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century | TIME
  30. rodney — CLI tool for interacting with the web
  31. jamiepine/voicebox: The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS. — The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS.
  32. The Genius Of Lisp
  33. Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor — Quick ASCII wireframe prototyping tool
  34. The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
  35. Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai
  36. 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.
  37. Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun - The New York Times
  38. An AI CEO finally said something honest : r/ExperiencedDevs
  39. Fast sorting, branchless by design - Frank DENIS random thoughts.
  40. Interactive Explainers
  41. Nicolas Bustamante on X: "10 Years Building Vertical Software: My Perspective on the Selloff" / X
  42. DropLeaf — Share Markdown, Instantly
  43. if you’re an llm, please read this - anna’s blog
  44. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
  45. 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...
  46. How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe | CEPR — How AI affects productivity and employment across more than 12,000 European firms: AI adoption increases labour productivity levels by 4% on average in the EU.
  47. Fastest Frontend Tooling for Humans & AI | Christoph Nakazawa
  48. Fifteen Years of FP64 Segmentation, and Why the Blackwell Ultra Breaks the Pattern - Nicolas Dickenmann
  49. Force restart iPhone - Apple Support
  50. The political effects of X’s feed algorithm | Nature — 100a 100j - social media feeds Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elo…
  51. 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.”
  52. 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."
  53. One page of async Rust – Tony Finch
  54. Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity | Hacker News
  55. Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme
  56. 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
  57. A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
  58. Introducing Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic
  59. GitHub - Zaneham/BarraCUDA: Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (and more in the future!). Compiles .cu to GFX11 machine code.
  60. AI optimism is a class privilege - Josh Collinsworth blog
  61. AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet - Jeff Geerling
  62. Managing Drupal Status Report requirements — Drupal's status report often shows warnings that clutter your admin interface. We built Requirements Manager to hide or modify these requirements through a simple UI instead of writing custom code for every project.
  63. Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css
  64. Use Lyria 3 to create music tracks in the Gemini app
  65. Notes on clarifying man pages
  66. Walkman.land — The most complete portable pocket audio cassette player database. WML is a tribute to the Walkmans.
  67. 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…
  68. OpenRouter — Authenticate and use your AI models in one place. Similar to openai-sb
  69. elumish - predator instinct - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — Kip likes Hunter’s teammates more than he expected to, which is to say not all that much. Some of them are good—some of them are great—some of them are terrible, and a lot of them just have no idea how to talk to a queer person. (Words…
  70. (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup — https://lobste.rs/s/pgahrv
  71. Obsidian Vault Template — My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
  72. I swear the UFO is coming any minute - by Adam Mastroianni
  73. Thin Is In – Stratechery by Ben Thompson — Thin Is In Listen to this post: Log in to listen There was, in the early days of computing, no debate about thick clients versus thin: When a computer was the size of a…
  74. 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…
  75. Using go fix to modernize Go code - The Go Programming Language
  76. 9 Exotic Coding Tricks used in the C64 Game, Seawolves
  77. I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes - BBC Future
  78. Introducing Markdown for Agents
  79. I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes — > I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking …
  80. GitHub - fjrevoredo/mini-diarium: An encrypted local cross-platform journaling app
  81. stonerl/Thaw: Menu bar manager for macOS — ice bartender bulldozer hidden menu bar manager
  82. Learning Lean: Part 1 | Rado's Radical Reflections
  83. Music Mouse - Eventide Audio
  84. Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true - Ars Technica
  85. 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."
  86. Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite
  87. Spotless | The Stain Solver
  88. OpenBSD Jumpstart | bsd.rd
  89. tldraw • very good free whiteboard
  90. GitHub - blackboardsh/electrobun: Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with Typescript. — via GitHub Public Timeline Feed https://ift.tt/iDmkHjv
  91. 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…
  92. Thinking Hard Burns Almost No Calories—But Destroys Your Next Workout — Your brain uses 20% of your body's energy just idling. Intense thinking barely adds to that. But the mental byproducts of a long cognitive day quietly sabotage your endurance in ways no amount of willpower can fix.
  93. Handy — Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer
  94. The Promptware Kill Chain - Schneier on Security
  95. Project Aura - A neat, easy-to-assemble, DIY Air quality monitor compatible with Home Assistant - CNX Software
  96. How Codex is built - by Gergely Orosz — Unlock the secrets behind Codex's architecture and development. Gain deep insights into the engineering decisions and tools that power this advanced AI, essential for understanding cutting-edge LLM construction.
  97. How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance | WIRED — From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.
  98. Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography - The Trail of Bits Blog
  99. Preserving the web is not the problem — losing it is
  100. Waymo denies using remote drivers after Senate testimony went viral | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/oZyBIO9

The Next Web

  1. Berlin hosts private premiere of ‘Holiguards Saga – The Portal of Force’ with Kevin Spacey and Elvira Paterson
  2. Zurich’s Rapidata raises €7.2M to build a real-time human feedback network for AI
  3. Gartner $110M sale of Digital Markets division in latest SEC filing
  4. Google’s new music tool, Lyria 3 is here
  5. Plato closes $14.5M to bring AI automation to wholesale trade
  6. David Silver is chasing superhuman intelligence with a $1bn seed
  7. When robots outshine humans, I have to ask: Are we ready?
  8. VC Quantonation closes €220M fund to back next-gen physics tech
  9. Mistral AI buys cloud startup Koyeb
  10. How the uninvestable is becoming investable

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. Worried About Your Gas Stove? Here’s What to Do.
  2. Want to Age Well at Home? Take Our Room-by-Room Tour.
  3. Turns Out, the Purse of My Dreams Is Actually a $58 Fanny Pack
  4. A Trinket Tray Makes a Perfect Gift
  5. Five People in Their 60s, 70s, and 80s Share How They Plan to Age at Home
  6. Caregivers Juggle Meds, Meals, Money, and So Much More. Here’s How They Stay Organized.
  7. The Everyday Essentials That Longevity Experts in Their 50s, 60s, and 70s Use in Their Own Homes
  8. Scammers Want to Steal Everyone’s Savings, Especially Seniors’ Savings. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.
  9. She Lost Her Husband. Then, Her Eyesight. Her Adult Children Faced the Question: What’s Next?
  10. The Best Tech Gear to Help Aging in Place

Sweethome

  1. Peel-and-Stick Tiles Never Fooled Me. Then I Tried These Sheets of Lustrous Mother-of-Pearl.
  2. The Best Outdoor Patio Heaters
  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. Keep Android Open
  2. Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
  3. I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
  4. Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
  5. Facebook is cooked
  6. OpenScan
  7. Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
  8. Turn Dependabot Off
  9. Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet
  10. Lil' Fun Langs
  11. Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
  12. Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
  13. The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
  14. Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI
  15. Legion Health (YC) Is Hiring Cracked SWEs for Autonomous Mental Health
  16. How to Review an AUR Package
  17. Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
  18. I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
  19. Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
  20. The Essential Economics of Nigeria's Okrika Industry (2023)
  21. Escaping Misconfigured VSCode Extensions (2023)
  22. Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
  23. Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer
  24. The Popper Principle
  25. PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
  26. Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
  27. Testing Super Mario Using a Behavior Model Autonomously
  28. Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)
  29. AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
  30. Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

Ars Technica

  1. Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up
  2. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
  3. Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its "lead platform"
  4. "Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
  5. It's outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser
  6. Nintendo brings GBA-era Pokémon to the Switch, but not Switch Online subscribers
  7. Supreme Court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed
  8. Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal
  9. An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
  10. Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books
  11. Rocket Report: Chinese launch firm raises big money; Falcon 9 back to the Bahamas
  12. Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was "meant for greatness"—then came psychosis
  13. NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes
  14. Rubik’s WOWCube adds complexity, possibility by reinventing the puzzle cube
  15. Diablo II’s new Warlock is a great excuse to revisit a classic game
  16. From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round
  17. F1: Preseason tests show how different 2026 will be
  18. Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving
  19. Zero grip, maximum fun: A practical guide to getting into amateur ice racing
  20. OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

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New Scientist

  1. Fish-based pet food may expose cats and dogs to forever chemicals
  2. Your BMI can't tell you much about your health – here's what can
  3. Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world
  4. Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why
  5. What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong?
  6. Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and treat it
  7. We've spotted the strongest microwave laser in the known universe
  8. Fresh understanding of the causes of migraine reveals new drug targets
  9. Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts'
  10. New Scientist recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell
  11. Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds
  12. Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b
  13. Ultra-processed foods could be making you age faster
  14. Artists gaze into space in stunning new exhibition
  15. New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs
  16. Atmospheric pollution caused by space junk could be a huge problem
  17. Why it's high time we stopped anthropomorphising ants
  18. Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?
  19. Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains
  20. Why some people cannot move on from the death of a loved one
  21. Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the boundaries of life
  22. Spruce trees stumped (sigh) when it comes to predicting eclipses
  23. More dog breeds found to have high risk of breathing condition
  24. Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years
  25. How baby microbiomes in the West differ from those everywhere else
  26. Ultramarathons could be bad for your blood
  27. Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowfall in part of Utah?
  28. Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
  29. Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
  30. Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems in their sleep
  31. The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved
  32. Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just one dose
  33. Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update
  34. Rethinking our approach to BMI highlights the need for speed
  35. Intermittent fasting probably doesn’t help with weight loss
  36. Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
  37. Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?
  38. Why adding cross training into your exercise routine is the way to go
  39. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is
  40. Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel
  41. These 5 diets could add years to your life even if you have bad genes
  42. World’s oldest cold virus found in 18th-century woman's lungs
  43. Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky
  44. Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures within our brain
  45. First ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer gets fast-tracked by FDA
  46. CAR T-cell therapy may slow neurodegenerative conditions like ALS
  47. New Scientist recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature
  48. Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases
  49. Why self-expansion is the key to long-lasting love and friendship
  50. RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins
  51. Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
  52. Endurance brain cells may determine how long you can run for
  53. Why I'm still an environmental optimist – despite it all
  54. The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed
  55. This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
  56. Royal Navy returns to wind power with trial of robotic sailboats
  57. 'Roughly 109.5 golden retrievers': a new way to measure ice
  58. What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick
  59. Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake
  60. Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
  61. Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity
  62. Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch for the first time
  63. Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?
  64. Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks
  65. Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs
  66. Why 1.5°C failed and setting a new limit would make things worse
  67. How clinical research is still failing underrepresented communities
  68. Specific cognitive training has 'astonishing' effect on dementia risk
  69. Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?
  70. 'Hidden' group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health
  71. Jeff Goldblum should make a film about this legendary mathematician
  72. Physicists can now take control of 'hidden' friction in devices
  73. Personalised medicine is yet to deliver, but that must start to change
  74. Statins don't cause most of the side effects listed on their labels
  75. Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago
  76. Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?
  77. Do weeds really love poor soil? Not if you look at the science
  78. Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer
  79. The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre's point
  80. Weakening ice shelf has caused crucial Antarctic glacier to accelerate
  81. Physicists warn of 'catastrophic' impact from UK science cuts
  82. The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing
  83. Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight
  84. Synchronised volcanic eruptions on Io hint at a spongy interior
  85. New Scientist recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
  86. Moving inductions to early morning could shorten labour by 6 hours
  87. Sebastião Salgado's stunning shots of the world's icy regions
  88. A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture
  89. Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards
  90. The toxic burden of pesticides is growing all around the world
  91. Methane surge in 2020 was linked to lower pollution during lockdowns
  92. Bonobo's pretend tea party shows capacity for imagination
  93. Fast-charging quantum battery built inside a quantum computer
  94. Nasal spray could prevent infections from any flu strain
  95. Vegan toddlers can grow at the same rate as omnivores
  96. How to live a meaningful life, according to science
  97. Why Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek
  98. Holy prosociality! Batman makes people stand for pregnant passengers
  99. Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic
  100. Psychedelic causes similar brain state to meditation

Slashdot

  1. Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books
  2. OpenAI Has No Moat, No Tech Edge, No Lock-in and No Real Plan, Analyst Warns
  3. Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves 'AI Builders'
  4. AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar
  5. How Streaming Became Cable TV's Unlikely Life Raft
  6. PayPal Discloses Data Breach That Exposed User Info For 6 Months
  7. HSBC To Investors: If India Couldn't Build an Enterprise Software Challenger, Neither Can AI
  8. Email Blunder Exposes $90 Billion Russian Oil Smuggling Ring
  9. US Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Global Tariffs
  10. Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot
  11. Trump Directs US Government To Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs
  12. How Private Equity Debt Left a Leading VPN Open To Chinese Hackers
  13. New York Drops Plan To Legalize Robotaxis Outside NYC
  14. NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes
  15. Newborn Chicks Connect Sounds With Shapes Just Like Humans, Study Finds

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. Los Angeles County Sues Roblox Over Ongoing Child-Safety Concerns
  2. Which Apple Watch Is for You? Apple Watch Series 11 vs. Ultra 3 and SE 3
  3. Amazon Prime Members: You Can Play These Games for Free
  4. Best VPN for Your Smart TV: Unblock Region-Restricted Movies and TV Shows From Your Sofa
  5. Meta's Pivot From VR Is Happening. Too Bad Glasses Aren't Ready for This Moment
  6. I Stopped Charging My Apple Watch Daily After Changing These 7 Settings
  7. Prime Video: The 31 Absolute Best Shows to Watch
  8. Best Fitness Trackers For Outdoor Workouts and Activities
  9. iPhone 18: Everything We Know About Apple's Next Mobile Flagship
  10. How Team USA's Olympic Skiers and Snowboarders Got an Edge From Google AI
  11. Another Data Breach? Here's How to Lock Down Your Online Accounts
  12. Best Air Purifiers of 2026: Don't Suffer Bad Winter Air Quality With These Top Models
  13. Shopping for a Nintendo Switch 2? Grab the Bargain Mario Kart Bundle Before It's Gone
  14. Netflix's 'Famous Last Words' Docuseries Has a New Episode With Eric Dane
  15. Every iPhone 17E Rumor and Leak So Far: $599 Price, Dynamic Island, MagSafe
  16. If You've Ever Ruined Sweaters in the Wash, Whirlpool's New Machine Has a Fix
  17. Got a New TV? Don't Make These Mounting Mistakes
  18. Virtual Boy Review: Nintendo's Oddest Switch Accessory Yet Is an Immersive '90s Museum
  19. What Will Apple Announce on March 4? | One More Thing video
  20. Is That Guy Filming You With His Glasses? Here's How to Tell
  21. The Right Way to Recover After a Workout, According to a Personal Trainer
  22. Galaxy S25 Edge vs. iPhone Air: Thin Phones Head-to-Head
  23. 10 Clever Home Appliance Innovations You'll See in 2026
  24. Netflix: 22 of the Best Fantasy TV Shows to Stream Right Now
  25. All the Mind-Blowing Home and Kitchen Tech We Saw at KBIS 2026

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Xbox shakeup: Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Microsoft
  2. Microsoft says today’s Xbox shake-up doesn’t mean game studio layoffs
  3. SCOTUS rules Trump’s tariffs are illegal — but the fight is far from over
  4. Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first memo on the future of Xbox
  5. Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo about leaving Microsoft
  6. Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft
  7. Sarah Bond is leaving Xbox
  8. Trump is making coal plants even dirtier as AI demands more energy
  9. Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web
  10. You can save $30 on Sony’s DualSense Edge controller by buying refurbished

Wired

  1. They Bet Against Trump’s Tariffs. Now They Stand to Make Millions
  2. Our Reviewers’ Top TV Pick for Gamers Is at Its Lowest Price in Months
  3. DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies
  4. The CDC Has a Leadership Crisis
  5. Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans
  6. The Best Chairs and Desks From Branch Are On Sale (We've Tested Them All)
  7. AI Safety Meets the War Machine
  8. Supreme Court Rules Most of Donald Trump’s Tariffs Are Illegal
  9. Your Coffee Grinder Is as Important as Your Brewer—Here Are the 5 Best We’ve Tested
  10. Epilogue GB Operator Review: Play Your Game Boy Games on a Laptop
  11. Boldr Kelvin Review (2026): Heats Your Body, Heats the Wall
  12. Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?
  13. How to Layer Your Clothes to Stay Warm in Any Season (2026)
  14. The Best Mushroom Gummies on the Market, Lab-Approved (2026)
  15. Meet Scotland’s Whisky-Sniffing Robot Dog
  16. The Search Engine for OnlyFans Models Who Look Like Your Crush
  17. Gmail Is Killing POP and Gmailify Access. Here's What It Means for You
  18. The War Over Prediction Markets Is Just Getting Started
  19. Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists
  20. The Olympics and Politics Are More Intertwined Than Ever. Maybe That’s a Good Thing

LifeHacker

  1. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  2. Here's Why You Should Never Use AI to Generate Your Passwords
  3. This 27-Inch LG 4K Monitor Just Dropped to Under $200
  4. Google Chrome Now Has Split View (and Two More New Productivity Features)
  5. This Is Your Chance to Get a 65-Inch OLED TV for $900
  6. Now That Trump's Tariffs Have Been Ruled Illegal, Will Tech Prices Lower?
  7. WhatsApp Now Lets You Share Group Message History With New Members
  8. Google Made an iPhone Camera App That Might Be Even Better Than Apple’s
  9. Meta Is Taking VR Out of 'Horizon Worlds'
  10. This Arlo Four-Camera Kit Is $70 Off Right Now
  11. This Highly Rated Samsung OLED TV Is $800 Off Right Now
  12. Why Cardio and Strength Training Are Both Important
  13. Rumors Suggest Apple and Meta Are Betting Big on AI Wearables
  14. Microsoft Is Now Testing a 'Built-In' Network Speed Test Tool in Windows 11
  15. I Was Skeptical of This Music App That Claims to Help With Focus, but It Actually Worked for Me
  16. Google Maps Now Makes You Log In to See These Key Features
  17. You Can Finally Back Up Your Android's Local Files
  18. Samsung’s Brightest OLED TV Is Now Over $1,000 Off
  19. The Best Sales on Headphones and Earbuds Right Now
  20. Eight Gadgets That Can Turn Your Microwave Into a More Versatile Appliance
  21. What It Actually Means to 'Tone' Your Muscles
  22. Some Samsung Users Are Already Reporting Dead Screens on Their $2,900 Galaxy Z TriFold Phones
  23. This iPhone Feature Can Save Your Life in an Emergency
  24. This Samsung Galaxy Watch Is the One I’d Recommend to Athletes and Adventurers, and It’s $150 Off
  25. The 30 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now
  26. Five Ways to 'Fix' Your iPhone's Keyboard
  27. This Massive Samsung Smart TV Is $500 Off Right Now
  28. These Highly Rated OnePlus Earbuds Are Cheaper Than Ever Right Now
  29. 12 Shows Like 'The Beast in Me' You Should Watch Next
  30. You Can Preorder the Google Pixel 10a for $500 and Get a $100 Amazon Gift Card
  31. Apple Is Adding ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to CarPlay in iOS 26.4
  32. My Favorite 'Glances' From Garmin’s Latest Software Update
  33. Google I/O 2026: How to Watch and What We Know so Far
  34. Meta Is Planning to Bring Back Facial Recognition
  35. What Are Heart Rate Zones, and How Can You Find Yours?
  36. My Favorite Ways to Upgrade a Laundry Room on a Budget
  37. The Ultrawide Gaming Monitor I Wish I Owned Is Over $350 Off
  38. Gemini Now Lets You Generate AI Music for Free
  39. The Rise of Longevity Fitness
  40. Google's Pixel 10a Isn't Much of an Upgrade From the Pixel 9a
  41. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is This February an Unusually Lucky Month?
  42. Samsung’s Newest Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is Over 50% Off Right Now
  43. This Eufy Smart Lock With Local Storage Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  44. My Favorite Ways to Upgrade a Shower Without Spending Much Money
  45. Here Are the New Features Coming in iOS 26.4
  46. Update Chrome ASAP to Patch This High-Severity Security Flaw
  47. The Best Last-Minute Tech Deals From Amazon's Presidents Day Sale
  48. This Ultra-Wide Curved Gaming Monitor Is Still $200 for Presidents Day
  49. When to Choose Resistance Bands vs. Dumbbells
  50. Microsoft Just Patched a Major Security Vulnerability for This Popular Windows App
  51. Google's Pixel Watch 3 Is Still a Great Fitness Watch, and It’s $129 Off Right Now
  52. These Workout-Ready Beats Earbuds Are On Sale for $135 Right Now
  53. Apple Music Will Soon Let You Generate Playlists With AI
  54. This High-Capacity Anker Power Bank Gives You 200W Portable Charging for Just $80
  55. Apple's Next macOS Update Could Extend the Lifespan of Your MacBook's Battery
  56. 10 Shows Like 'Ponies' You Should Watch Next
  57. How DuckDuckGo's New Encrypted Voice AI Chat Compares With ChatGPT and Gemini
  58. This Shortcut Solves the Biggest Issue With Finding Messages on Your iPhone
  59. Four Ways to Recover Your 'Lost' Work in Microsoft Word
  60. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is a 'Bebot Girl'?
  61. These Three Claude Premium AI Features Are Now Available for Free
  62. No, a Sauna Isn't a Substitute for Exercise
  63. OpenAI Actually Shut Down GPT-4o
  64. These Malicious AI Assistants in Chrome Are Stealing User Credentials
  65. These Viture Luma Pro Smart Glasses Are Cheaper Than Ever During Amazon's Early Presidents Day Sale
  66. You Can Pick Up a Refurbished Kindle Paperwhite for $115 During Amazon’s Early Presidents Day Sale
  67. The Easiest (and Cheapest) Ways to Turn Your Attic Into Useful Storage Space
  68. 10 Hacks for Hanging Pictures Perfectly Every Time
  69. This Rugged Action Camera Is Nearly $90 Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  70. Ring Just Ended Its Controversial Partnership With Flock Safety
  71. This Premium Sony Soundbar Is More Than 50% Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  72. Claude Has a Surprisingly Great Way to Add Multiple Appointments to Your Calendar at Once
  73. 12 Shows Like 'Silo' You Should Watch Next
  74. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  75. YouTube Finally Released an App for the Apple Vision Pro
  76. Samsung Will Give You Up to $900 If You Trade Your Phone in for a Galaxy S26
  77. When You Need to Do 'Activation Exercises' (and When You Don't)
  78. This Ultra-Wide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $800 Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  79. Apple and Google Just Made It Easier to Switch Between iPhone and Android
  80. The Steam Deck Is Completely Sold Out Right Now, and Valve Hasn't Told Us Why
  81. Apple Just Patched Its First Zero-Day Security Vulnerability of 2026
  82. Apple's Big AI Siri Plans Are Once Again Delayed
  83. My Favorite Smart Lock Bundle I Use at My Own Home Is Down to $93 During This Early Presidents Day Sale
  84. AI Chatbots Are Even Worse at Giving Medical Advice Than We Thought
  85. These Noise-Cancelling JBL Headphones Turned Me Into an Audio Snob
  86. This Apple Watch Series 9 With Cellular Connectivity Is 25% Off Right Now
  87. The Samsung Galaxy S25 FE Is $200 Off Right Now
  88. Two Years Later, Is the Apple Vision Pro Even Worth It
  89. The Telegram App Has a New Look, and a Weird New Feature
  90. TikTok's First US-Exclusive Feature Is a Local Feed That Wants Your Location Data
  91. How Deep Should You Squat?
  92. The Premium Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra Is on Sale for $368 Right Now
  93. Apple Just Released iOS 26.3 With These New Features
  94. This Aggressive Spyware Is Targeting Both Android and iOS Devices
  95. This Budget-Friendly Asus Gaming Monitor Is 25% Off Right Now
  96. These Skullcandy Headphones Are Over 50% Off Right Now
  97. How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?
  98. Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday Update Fixes Six Zero-Day Exploits
  99. How to Get Access to T-Mobile’s Free Live Translation Beta
  100. The Best Kitchen Gadgets to Make Cooking Weeknight Dinners So Much Easier

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The Register

  1. AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
  2. SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists
  3. Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE
  4. ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
  5. Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS
  6. Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed
  7. Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs
  8. Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work
  9. Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play
  10. Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame
  11. EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs
  12. CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug
  13. From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding
  14. Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
  15. Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine
  16. HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears
  17. Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos
  18. Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him
  19. India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook
  20. AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures
  21. Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT
  22. NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle
  23. Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race
  24. Spending watchdog tells National Science Foundation CIO to up game on tech procurement
  25. Crims hit a $20M jackpot via malware-stuffed ATMs
  26. Don't believe the hyperscalers! AI can't cure the climate crisis
  27. Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking
  28. Android malware taps Gemini to navigate infected devices
  29. DOGE bites taxman
  30. US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians
  31. DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events
  32. AI agents can't teach themselves new tricks – only people can
  33. UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours
  34. Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best
  35. AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it
  36. Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it
  37. OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years
  38. Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases
  39. Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk
  40. Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years
  41. Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant
  42. As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered
  43. Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator
  44. ShinyHunters claims it drove off with 1.7M CarGurus records
  45. Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal
  46. Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read
  47. DARPA's autonomous missile-firing missile advances toward flight tests
  48. Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say
  49. Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives
  50. Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities

TechMeme

  1. Xbox President Sarah Bond, long thought to be Phil Spencer's heir, is leaving; Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is promoted to Chief Content Officer (Ryan McCaffrey/IGN)
  2. Phil Spencer will retire after 38 years at Microsoft; Asha Sharma, the president of product in Microsoft's Core AI business, will become the CEO of gaming (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
  3. Anthropic launches Claude Code Security, which "scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches"; cybersecurity stocks fall (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
  4. Code Metal, which uses AI to let engineers translate legacy code into modern languages, raised a $125M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation (Lauren Goode/Wired)
  5. A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, a blow for Tesla as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
  6. Sources: Google may invest $100M in Fluidstack at a $7.5B valuation and has backstopped crypto miners that are building datacenters, seeking to expand TPU use (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Tech stocks rise slightly from their morning lows after the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump lacked the authority to impose sweeping global tariffs (Adam Levine/Barron's Online)
  8. Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3B across new India- and Asia-focused funds, bringing its total assets under management to over $10B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
  9. Claude's C Compiler shows AI elevates the role of human judgment and vision; it's a milestone, but closely mirrors LLVM/GCC, and hard codes things to pass tests (Chris Lattner/Modular Blog)
  10. Sources: OpenAI has 200+ people working on AI devices, including a smart speaker with a camera costing $200 to $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp (The Information)
  11. Avantos, which makes an AI-native client management system for financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer, taking its total funding to $35M (Minh Le/Tech in Asia)
  12. OpenAI says users aged 18 to 24 account for nearly 50% and under-30s represent 80% of ChatGPT messages in India; 35% of chats are related to professional tasks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  13. Pepper, which offers a digital storefront for independent food distributors, raised a $50M Series C led by Lead Edge Capital, taking its total funding to $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
  14. Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
  15. Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US-Japan trade deal (Nikkei Asia)