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Background Discord announced a global age‑verification rollout that would require users to submit a government ID or a video selfie for “full access.” The plan...
Background Pinterest is reportedly flooded with AI‑generated images and subject to heavy‑handed automated moderation. Artists say their hand‑drawn work is bein...
Meta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR‑centric metaverse visionhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/meta-metaverse-leaves-vr-horizon-worlds-mobi...
Market Reaction An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled Fridayhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/art...
Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index Goldman Sachs has launched an “S&P ex‑AI” index SPXXAI that tracks the S&P 500 stocks not related to AI. The index offers...
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: > The English‑language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controver...
Announcement Xbox chief and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft after nearly 40 years at the company, according to IGNhttps://www.ign.com/ar...
Incident Overview Microsoft pulled a year‑old blog post this week after a Hacker News thread flagged that it had encouraged developers to download all seven Ha...
OpenAI faces four fundamental strategic problems that, according to analyst Benedict Evans, cannot be solved merely with fundraising or capital‑expenditure anno...
Overview An anonymous reader reports that Meta product managers are rebranding themselves as “AI builders,” signaling that AI coding tools are reshaping who ge...
Background An anonymous reader reported that an AI short‑film contest winner was slated to screen before feature presentations in AMC Theatres, with a national...
Cable TV providers have spent the past decade losing tens of millions of households to streaming services, but companies like Charter Communications are now slo...
Overview PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in its PayPal Working Capital PPWC loan application exposed sensitive personal i...
India's IT services giants have spent decades deploying, customizing, and maintaining the world's largest enterprise software platforms, putting hundreds of tho...
Overview An IT blunder revealed an apparent smuggling ring that has moved at least $90 bn of Russian oil and is playing a central role in funding the Kremlin's...
Supreme Court Decision The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Friday, ruling that his use of the International Emergen...
Report Summary An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI toolshttps://www.f...
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: In early 2024, the agency that oversees cybersecurity for much of the US government issued a rar...
Details New York Governor Kathy Hochul has dropped a proposal that would have allowed limited commercial robotaxi deployments outside New York City, citing a l...
Classification of the Starliner Flight NASA has officially classified Boeing Starliner’s 2024 crewed flight as a “Type A” mishap, acknowledging serious technic...
Trump Directs US Government to Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the Department...
The Bouba‑Kiki Effect and Its Origins Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable...
Project Overview The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restr...
Overview California’s recently proposed AB‑2047 would require every 3D printer sold in the state to be a Department of Justice‑approved model equipped with “fi...
