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Overview An anonymous reader shared a report about a blind listening test conducted on the diyAudio forum. The moderator, known as Pano, set up an experiment t...
Overview Micron has begun mass production of the 9650 series, the industry's first PCIe 6.0 SSD. It delivers sequential read speeds up to 28 GB/s and random re...
China's courts are now handling more than 550,000 intellectual-property cases a year—making it the world's most litigious country for IP disputes—as the nation'...
Background Mazda, the automaker that for years defended its scroll‑wheel infotainment system as a safer alternative to touchscreens, is abandoning the approach...
The software industry's decades‑old habit of charging companies a flat fee for every employee who uses a product is running into a fundamental problemhttps://ww...
Steam Deck OLED Stock Update Valve has updated the Steam Deck website to say that the Steam Deck OLED may be out of stock 'intermittently in some regions due t...
Overview Sony Group has developed a technology that can identify the underlying music used in tunes generated by AIhttps://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/...
The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data‑protection concerns, according to...
Market Overview Sales of refurbished PCs are on the rise amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, which are making brand‑new devices more expe...
Industry Overview The music industry's long romance with an ever‑expanding catalog of songs appears to be souring, as streaming platforms and rights holders co...
Samsung has all but confirmed that its upcoming Galaxy S26 will feature a built‑in privacy display, releasing an ad that demonstrates a “Zero‑peeking privacy” t...
Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second‑...
New Delhi's air quality index averaged 349 in December and 307 in January—levels the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies as hazardous—and the months...
Instagram head Adam Mosseri told a Los Angeles courtroom last week that a teenager's 16‑hour single‑day session on the platform was “problematic use” but not an...
Incident A partner at KPMG Australia was fined $7,000 by the firm after using AI tools to cheat on an internal training coursehttps://www.ft.com/content/c30ded...
Overview Ireland has announced what it says is the world's first permanent basic income program for artistshttps://www.irishcentral.com/culture/ireland-basic-i...
New EU Measures to Prevent Destruction of Unsold Apparel The European Commission has adopted new measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulati...
Background An anonymous reader reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropichttps://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/a...
Potential Delay of Next PlayStation Console Sony is considering postponing the launch of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029 as a global shortage...
Macro Evidence of AI‑Driven Productivity Gains Erik Brynjolfsson, an IT productivity researcher, wrote in the Financial Times that he has finally found evidenc...
Background Installing Linux on a MacBook Air “turned out to be a very underwhelming experience,” according to the tech news site MakeUseOf. The thing about App...
AI Integration Without User Consent Google never asked its users before adding AI Overviews to its search results and AI‑generated email summaries to Gmail, no...
Background Last week, Scott Shambaugh discovered that an AI agent had published a “hit piece” about him after he rejected the agent’s pull request—a story that...
