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BBC

  1. Armed man killed after entering secure perimeter of Trump's residence, Secret Service says
  2. Mexico's most wanted drug lord 'El Mencho' killed in military operation
  3. Trump curious why Iran has not 'capitulated', US envoy Witkoff says
  4. Former PM Gordon Brown urges police probe into whether Andrew used RAF bases to meet Epstein
  5. Greenland says 'no thanks' to Trump US hospital boat
  6. Explosions kill police officer and injure 25 in western Ukraine
  7. 'Effective' SEND support won't be taken away, minister says
  8. Met officers working for Andrew told to guard Epstein's home, emails show
  9. William in tribute to TikTok medic found dead at barracks
  10. Wolves' Arokodare third player racially abused this weekend
  11. Why 2026 marks a Winter Olympic turning point for Team GB
  12. USA win men's Olympic ice hockey gold for first time in 46 years
  13. In Pictures: The best of the Winter Olympics - day by day
  14. Penis injections, swearing curlers and a wolfdog - Olympic stories you might have missed
  15. Can you name every GB medal winner at Milan-Cortina?
  16. Best Bafta Awards pictures as stars gather for ceremony
  17. The uncertainties facing businesses and consumers after Trump's tariff changes
  18. 13,000 calls in three months: How one city is keeping ahead of measles
  19. The most played music artists for UK cities - some may surprise you
  20. Are ties and blazers on the way out? Why some schools are pushing for 'active' uniforms
  21. Bones of St Francis of Assisi go on public display in Italy
  22. Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
  23. Andrew is Prince William's problem too - and it makes his future job harder
  24. US ambassador's Israel comments condemned by Arab and Muslim nations
  25. In pictures: London's Chinese New Year parade 2026
  26. BBC News app
  27. Gordon Brown turns detective over Andrew
  28. Trump's Tariffs... Trump attacks the Supreme Court over tariff ban
  29. A star-filled, jaw-dropping black comedy
  30. Arsenal pass derby test of nerve as title race looks set to go to wire
  31. 'Heist' at Forest boosts Liverpool's top-four hopes
  32. Why 2026 marks a Winter Olympic turning point for Team GB
  33. Old Firm 'buckle under pressure' as incredible title race twists again
  34. England's 'Jack of all trades' delivers for Brook again
  35. France maintain Grand Slam dream with Italy win

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Colorado is working on a bill that would make it illegal to 3D print firearms and gun parts
  2. Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI for its upcoming S26 series
  3. 2026 Olympics: How to watch the Winter Games Closing Ceremony today
  4. Apple is reportedly considering red as the next premium color for its iPhones
  5. Apple's first event of the year will reportedly bring at least five products over a 'three-day blitz'
  6. How to send a message via satellite on iPhone
  7. The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US
  8. The US will send Tech Corps members to foreign countries in its latest push for AI dominance
  9. A judge ruled Tesla still has to pay $243 million for a fatal crash involving Autopilot
  10. 13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools
  11. How to know if an AirTag is tracking you
  12. Engadget review recap: Sony WF-1000XM6, ASUS Zenbook Duo and more
  13. An old-school Zelda-like, Skate Bums and other new indie games worth checking out
  14. Xbox head Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft
  15. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: The Galaxy S26 and other devices that might launch on February 25
  16. Tunic publisher claims TikTok ran 'racist, sexist' AI ads for one of its games without its knowledge
  17. OpenAI will reportedly release an AI-powered smart speaker in 2027
  18. NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch to take astronauts around the Moon
  19. Ubisoft lays off 40 staff working on Splinter Cell remake, says game remains in development
  20. Engadget Podcast: Instagram on trial and the RAMaggedon rages on
  21. US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content
  22. LA County lawsuit accuses Roblox of exposing children to 'grooming and exploitation'
  23. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Switch next week for the series’ 30th anniversary
  24. The Morning After: What to expect from Apple’s March 4 hardware event
  25. Samsung updates Bixby to become more conversational
  26. Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025
  27. The best streaming services in 2026
  28. The best cheap Android phones to buy in 2026
  29. Apple inks deal for IMAX screenings of live Formula 1 races
  30. Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first
  31. Slay the Spire 2 will enter early access on March 5
  32. Sony is shutting down the studio behind the Demon's Souls remake
  33. Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists
  34. Here are my favorite things from Toy Fair 2026
  35. Ring could be planning to expand Search Party feature beyond dogs
  36. YouTube is bringing the Gemini-powered 'Ask' button to TVs
  37. Rivian rolls out an Apple Watch app with vehicle controls and digital key support
  38. Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process
  39. West Virginia is suing Apple alleging negligence over CSAM materials
  40. Nintendo announces surprise Switch 2 version of sci-fi RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition
  41. Proton VPN two-year subscriptions are 70 percent off right now
  42. Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack is cheaper than ever
  43. The latest 45W Anker Nano charger with smart display is $10 off right now
  44. Russia's recent blocking of Telegram is reportedly disrupting its military operations in Ukraine
  45. Get a four-pack of first-gen AirTags for only $64
  46. Grab this Elevation Lab 10-year extended battery case for AirTag for only $16
  47. Meta reportedly plans to release a smartwatch this year
  48. The 16 best portable Bluetooth speakers for 2026
  49. Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be 'useful'
  50. Dyson announces the PencilWash wet floor cleaner

Pinboard

  1. 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…
  2. Child's Play — the donald boat star turn
  3. micasa — your house, in a terminal
  4. (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup — https://lobste.rs/s/pgahrv
  5. I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. | THE LOCAL STACK — via https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116103192779110422 via @StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca boost of https://mstdn.social/@paulknightly/116103623055825409 and via https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/116103669716513343
  6. "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought. — I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.
  7. 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…
  8. Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
  9. Lil' Fun Langs — a pungent monad odor that attracts mathochists
  10. Color Game — How Well Can You Remember Colors? | Dialed
  11. Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme
  12. sandbox-exec: macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool | Igor's Techno Club — sandbox-exec is a built-in macOS command-line utility that enables users to execute applications within a sandboxed environment
  13. Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton. | Kasava
  14. How to Write a Good Spec for AI Agents – O’Reilly
  15. 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…
  16. ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
  17. AI makes you boring | marginalia.nu — AI makes people boring. AI models are extremely bad at original thinking, so any thinking that is offloaded to a LLM is as a result usually not very original, even if they’re very good at treating your inputs to the discussion as amazing genius level insights. ... The way huma…
  18. Sandboxels — A chunky pixel-based simulator, really fun.
  19. Cleaning up merged git branches: a one-liner from the CIA's leaked dev docs | spencer.wtf
  20. 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.
  21. Oat - Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
  22. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/2o3gHOm
  23. Acting ethically in an imperfect world
  24. A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
  25. GitHub - manaflow-ai/cmux: cmux lets you run Claude Code, Codex CLI, Amp, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, Opencode, and other coding agent CLIs in parallel across multiple tasks — via GitHub Public Timeline Feed
  26. Turn Dependabot Off
  27. How I Use Claude Code | Boris Tane
  28. The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas
  29. I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs | Hacker News — The git plugin in oh-my-zsh has an alias for this: gbda It also has one for squash-merged branches: gbds Deleting dead branches easily
  30. GitHub - gsd-build/get-shit-done: A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode. — A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode. - gsd-build/get-shit-done
  31. 15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram » nvie.com
  32. 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.
  33. rodney — CLI tool for interacting with the web
  34. Idea to mobile app in minutes — Rork builds complete, production-ready mobile apps from your description using AI and React Native
  35. 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.
  36. Parse, don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust — ramblings of @harudagondi
  37. How far back in time can you understand English? — https://x.com/i/status/2024144046965334246
  38. The Agent Skills Directory — Discover and install skills for AI agents.
  39. qwibitai/nanoclaw: A lightweight alternative to Clawdbot / OpenClaw that runs in Apple containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic's Agents SDK
  40. (1) Thariq on X: "Lessons from Building Claude Code: Prompt Caching Is Everything " / X
  41. What is OAuth?
  42. The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead | Boris Tane — A lightweight commenting system using GitHub issues.
  43. GitHub - fjrevoredo/mini-diarium: An encrypted local cross-platform journaling app
  44. Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say
  45. Cosmologically Unique IDs - Jason Fantl
  46. 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century | TIME
  47. Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun - The New York Times
  48. Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor — Quick ASCII wireframe prototyping tool
  49. Why Vampires Live Forever | Machiel Reyneke
  50. Poor Deming never stood a chance – Surfing Complexity
  51. Fifteen Years of FP64 Segmentation, and Why the Blackwell Ultra Breaks the Pattern - Nicolas Dickenmann
  52. if you’re an llm, please read this - anna’s blog
  53. Loon — A LISP that flies
  54. Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
  55. jamiepine/voicebox: The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS. — The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS.
  56. Investors pour record sums into European stocks
  57. Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous • The Register — via @isaaclyman@toot.cafe boost of https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116080962456717302
  58. I swear the UFO is coming any minute - by Adam Mastroianni
  59. Large Language Models for Mortals book released
  60. Fragments: February 18
  61. 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? …
  62. Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents | Stripe Dot Dev Blog
  63. Notes on clarifying man pages
  64. 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…
  65. Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking | Hacker News
  66. Farewell, Rust - Dmitry Kudryavtsev — For now...
  67. The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/oZyBIO9
  68. Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software
  69. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - Ars Technica — If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
  70. A beginner's guide to split keyboards | Hacker News
  71. OpenScan - 3D Scanning for the Masses — We create the future of accessible, high-quality 3D scanning with our DIY photogrammetry-based 3D scanners. Compatible with various cameras, our scanners offer a cost-effective solution for 3D printing, modeling, reverse engineering, or product presentation. Our open-source and modular…
  72. I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes - BBC Future
  73. stonerl/Thaw: Menu bar manager for macOS — ice bartender bulldozer hidden menu bar manager
  74. Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents | June Kim
  75. xkcd 2501 generator — X is second nature to us Y, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Z
  76. 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.
  77. GitHub - datapartyjs/MeshTNC: MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatible packet radio modems
  78. Blue light filters don’t work - by Patrick Mineault
  79. Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/AUu3JFk
  80. The AI Vampire. This was an unusually hard post to… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium
  81. Inside the Gay Tech Mafia | WIRED — Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.
  82. TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of — Scene+Heard
  83. Facebook is absolutely cooked | Hacker News
  84. Django ORM Standalone⁽¹⁾: Querying an existing database
  85. The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
  86. Tracking The Damage — A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
  87. Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial - CBS News
  88. 9 Exotic Coding Tricks used in the C64 Game, Seawolves
  89. pentagi: ✨ Fully autonomous AI Agents system capable of performing complex penetration testing tasks
  90. Nashville comic’s fake ICE tip line exposes teachers reporting kids
  91. Whale Fall | Andrew Nesbitt — The death of an open-source project is like a whale fall, spawning an ecosystem of forks, shims, reimplantations, etc
  92. Index, Count, Offset, Size
  93. DropLeaf — Share Markdown, Instantly
  94. Veirt/weathr: a terminal weather app with ascii animation — a terminal weather app with ascii animation. Contribute to Veirt/weathr development by creating an account on GitHub.
  95. What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You » Danny
  96. Email Marketing Skill for Claude Code | Email Marketing Bible
  97. Keyviz
  98. Ai and documents
  99. dmux - Parallel agents with tmux and worktrees
  100. Inside Trump’s ICE Concentration Camps - by Tim Dickinson

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. I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
  2. Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
  3. Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS
  4. Fix your tools
  5. Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
  6. Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
  7. Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS
  8. What is a database transaction?
  9. Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community
  10. Spain has blocked access to freedom.gov
  11. Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work
  12. Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map
  13. Write-Only Code
  14. Git's Magic Files
  15. Six Math Essentials
  16. Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents
  17. NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker
  18. Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser
  19. Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
  20. Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California
  21. An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia
  22. International box-sizing Awareness Day (2014)
  23. We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them
  24. How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
  25. Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks
  26. Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
  27. Monkey Patching in VBA
  28. What's the best way to learn a new language?
  29. Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations
  30. Building a (Bad) Local AI Coding Agent Harness from Scratch

Ars Technica

  1. Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere
  2. NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs
  3. Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils
  4. Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?
  5. Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
  6. After fueling test, optimism grows for March launch of Artemis II to the Moon
  7. Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company
  8. MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as RFK Jr. flips on pesticide
  9. Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK
  10. FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
  11. Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind
  12. Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up
  13. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
  14. Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its "lead platform"
  15. "Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
  16. It's outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser
  17. Nintendo brings GBA-era Pokémon to the Switch, but not Switch Online subscribers
  18. Supreme Court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed
  19. Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal
  20. An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services

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New Scientist

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

Slashdot

  1. 'Open Source Registries Don't Have Enough Money To Implement Basic Security'
  2. Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand
  3. AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments
  4. Amazon Disputes Report an AWS Service Was Taken Down By Its AI Coding Bot
  5. Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums
  6. F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister
  7. Has the AI Disruption Arrived - and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?
  8. After 16 Years, 'Interim' CTO Finally Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon From the UK's Post Office
  9. Ask Slashdot: What's Your Boot Time?
  10. DNA Technology Convicts a 64-Year-Old for Murdering a Teenager in 1982
  11. Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement 'Stop Killing Games' Will Launch NGOs in America and the EU
  12. Hit Piece-Writing AI Deleted. But Is This a Warning About AI-Generated Harassment?
  13. America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries
  14. Code.org President Steps Down Citing 'Upending' of CS By AI
  15. T2 Linux Restores XAA In Xorg, Making 2D Graphics Fast Again

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-17-26 to 2-20-26)
  2. Vipera: Powered Skis
  3. Clever Amish Design for a Low-Tech, Gravity-Based Tool Holder
  4. A West German Folding Military Case from 1965
  5. Alternative UI Design: The RollerMouse Red
  6. A Clever Way to Upcycle Unrecyclable Misprinted Money: Mold it Into Furniture
  7. From Switzerland, a Glass Fence that Turns Into a Glass Wall
  8. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Jon Marshall on Design's Material Reality
  9. A Trick for Extra Storage Space: Plumbing Cutout Drawers
  10. DARPA's Towable Anti-Piracy Measure
  11. Low-Cost Window Insulation: Bubble Wrap and Water
  12. Specialty Tool Design: An Automatic Wire Stripper and Crimper
  13. Good 20th Century Industrial Design: This West German Perpetual Calendar
  14. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Stephen Simantiras on Design's Empathetic Foundation
  15. Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-9-26 to 2-13-26)

CNET

  1. What Happened in Hulu's 'Paradise'? Here's a Recap Before Season 2 Premieres
  2. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 Is Days Away: Galaxy S26 Rumors, Release Date and More
  3. Astronauts Will Be Allowed to Use the Latest Smartphones During Space Missions
  4. Trump Phone Reportedly Costs More, Looks Different, Isn't Made in America
  5. 'Bridgerton' Season 4, Part 2: Release Date and Time on Netflix
  6. I 3D Printed Dyson Vacuum Tools and Other Cool Home Accessories
  7. Premier League Soccer 2026: Watch Tottenham vs. Arsenal Live
  8. The Best Smart Scales of 2026 for Measuring Body Fat, Muscle Mass and More
  9. Give Your Phone Photos a Warm, Dreamy Analog Film Look With These 3 Tricks
  10. Apple Watch vs. Oura Ring: After Months of Testing, I've Finally Made My Choice
  11. Is It Rude to Have Your Phone Face Up on the Table?
  12. How Starlink and AI are Fueling the Space Junk Crisis video
  13. 5 Must-Have Healthy Foods to Keep Your Heart Pumping
  14. 10 New Large Appliance Features That Prove the Home Is Getting Smarter in 2026
  15. Lenovo Idea Tab Pro Tablet Review: It Gets the Job Done
  16. Seeing More iPhone Battery Life? Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Could Be the Boost
  17. Stop Overpaying for Heat: How This Easy Fix Can Save You $100 This Season
  18. AI Slop Is Destroying the Internet. These Are the People Fighting to Save It
  19. You Can Use AI to Manage Your Time as a Student. Here's How It Can Help
  20. Premier League Soccer: Stream Nottingham Forest vs. Liverpool Live From Anywhere
  21. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Feb. 22
  22. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Feb. 22, #987
  23. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Feb. 22 #721
  24. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Feb. 22, #517
  25. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Feb. 22, #1709

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Trump says Netflix will ‘pay the consequences’ if it doesn’t fire Susan Rice
  2. This magazine plays Tetris — here’s how
  3. America desperately needs new privacy laws
  4. Retro camera shootout: Camp Snap Pro vs. Flashback One35 V2
  5. Arturia’s FX Collection 6 adds two new effects and a $99 intro version
  6. Georgia says Elon Musk’s America PAC violated election law
  7. Suspect in Tumbler Ridge school shooting described violent scenarios to ChatGPT
  8. The Pixel 10A and Soundcore Space One are just two of the best deals this week
  9. Aerial_Knight’s DropShot captures the thrill of skydiving and makes it stylish
  10. Stellantis is in a crisis of its own making

Wired

  1. What to Know About At-Home STI Tests: Pros, Cons, and Recommendations (2026)
  2. What Is Down Fill Power (2026): Fill Weight, Synthetics
  3. How to Hide Google’s AI Overviews From Your Search Results
  4. Creatine Supplements Are Everywhere. Do I Need Them? (2026)
  5. How to View the ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3
  6. Best Electric Toothbrush, Backed by Real-Life Testing (2026)
  7. Sony’s WH-CH720N headphones offer excellent value at full price, but right now they're a steal.
  8. Souvenirs From the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Being Resold for Big Bucks Online
  9. 6 Best Phones With Headphone Jacks (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  10. Best Budget Monitors: I Found 3 Impressive Screens Under $200 (2026)
  11. Password Managers Share a Hidden Weakness
  12. You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line
  13. iRestore Elite Laser Hair Growth System Review: Surprisingly Effective
  14. After the 2026 Winter Olympics, Figure Skating Will Never Be the Same
  15. ‘Narco-Submarine’ Carrying 4 Tons of Cocaine Captured by Mexico's Navy
  16. Trump Imposes New Tariffs to Sidestep Supreme Court Ruling
  17. The Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Won’t Bring Car Prices Back to Earth
  18. A Galaxy Composed Almost Entirely of Dark Matter Has Been Confirmed
  19. Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis’ Human Babysitters
  20. They Bet Against Trump’s Tariffs. Now They Stand to Make Millions

LifeHacker

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

The Onion

The Register

  1. UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints
  2. Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers
  3. Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone
  4. SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping
  5. The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense
  6. PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions
  7. Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs
  8. AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
  9. SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists
  10. Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE
  11. ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
  12. Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS
  13. Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed
  14. Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs
  15. Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work
  16. Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play
  17. Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame
  18. EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs
  19. CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug
  20. From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding
  21. Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
  22. Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine
  23. HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears
  24. Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos
  25. Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him
  26. India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook
  27. AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures
  28. Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT
  29. NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle
  30. Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race
  31. Spending watchdog tells National Science Foundation CIO to up game on tech procurement
  32. Crims hit a $20M jackpot via malware-stuffed ATMs
  33. Don't believe the hyperscalers! AI can't cure the climate crisis
  34. Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking
  35. Android malware taps Gemini to navigate infected devices
  36. DOGE bites taxman
  37. US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians
  38. DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events
  39. AI agents can't teach themselves new tricks – only people can
  40. UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours
  41. Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best
  42. AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it
  43. Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it
  44. OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years
  45. Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases
  46. Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk
  47. Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years
  48. Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant
  49. As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered
  50. Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator

TechMeme

  1. The EU's DSA probe into Shein is just the latest of the company's problems, which are stacking up in many of its big markets as it seeks to push through an IPO (Financial Times)
  2. A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are "unfair", as it takes "20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time" to train a human (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
  4. Turkey launches a review of how social media platforms handle children's data as it prepares new rules that include identity verification and age restrictions (Turkish Minute)
  5. Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  6. Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC (Molly White/Citation Needed)
  7. India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)
  8. Anthropic's data shows software engineering accounts for ~50% of its AI agent tool calls; the remaining verticals are greenfields most founders are overlooking (Garry Tan/Garry's List)
  9. Source Global: the US consulting market is set to grow 7% in 2026, the fastest pace in the post-COVID era, as companies seek advice on profiting from AI (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
  10. Sam Altman says currently "the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous" and that it is "not something that's going to matter at scale this decade" (Bijin Jose/The Indian Express)
  11. Amazon details how a Russian-speaking hacker used generative AI as part of a campaign that breached 600+ FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
  12. Salt Lake City-based Jump, a provider of AI tools for financial advisors to automate meeting prep and more, raised an $80M Series B led by Insight Partners (FinSMEs)
  13. Sam Altman says Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in space is 'ridiculous' (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
  14. Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face "consequences," after she said corporations that "take a knee" to Trump would be held accountable (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)
  15. Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examines whether Netflix wields anticompetitive leverage over creators in violation of Clayton and Sherman Acts (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)