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Overview A start‑up called Reflect Orbital proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night. The concept, first noted by Slash...
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates agains...
Milestone Achievement On February 24th, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory activated its automated alert system, sending out roughly 800,000 real‑time notifications...
Background Southern California’s Air Quality Management District SCAQMD had been developing rules for nearly two years that would place a fee on natural‑gas‑po...
Background OpenAI terminated an employee after an internal investigation revealed that the individual used confidential OpenAI information on external predicti...
Background In 2021, the Australian company Cortical Labs used neuron‑powered computer chips to play Pong. The chips consisted of clumps of more than 800,000 li...
Dan Simmons, best known for the epic sci‑fi novel Hyperion and its sequels, has died at 77 following a stroke. > Simmons, who worked in elementary education bef...
New submitter DeanonymizedCoward/~DeanonymizedCoward shares a report from TechCrunch: > The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is report...
Overview joshuarkhttps://slashdot.org/~joshuark shares a report from Ars Technica: Perplexity has introducedhttps://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perp...
Overview Perplexity has introduced Computer, a new tool that lets users assign tasks and watch them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents ru...
South Korea Approves Export of High-Precision Map Data South Korea has reversed a two‑decade policy and approved the export of high‑precision map data, paving...
Background President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to “immediately cease” using Anthropic’s AI technology CNBChttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/02...
Incident Overview An anonymous reader quoted a report from the Associated Press: the U.S. military used a laser on Thursday to shoot down a “seemingly threaten...
Weeks after the U.S. Congress rejected unprecedented cuts to science budgets that the administration of President Donald Trump had sought for 2026, funding to s...
An anonymous reader shares a column: I'm going to take the diplomatic hat off here and say with brutal honesty: basically everybody in the music business hates...
The $200 billion video game industry is caught between studios eager to cut ballooning development costs through AI and a player base that has grown openly host...
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year‑on‑year YoY in 2026 to 1.1 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation IDC...
Artemis III Mission Changes NASA announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moonhttps://www.theguardian....
Overview A sprawling Chinese influence operation—accidentally revealed by a Chinese law‑enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT—focused on intimidating Chinese d...
Background An anonymous reader reports that the use of AI in journalism, especially for reviews, is a hotly debated topic across many industries. Review aggreg...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high‑stakes fight between rival Anthropic and the Pentagon: n...
Deal Overview Netflix is walking awayhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-deal-superior-netflix.html from a deal to buy War...
Background The discussion about the future of coding roles has been highlighted by Microsoft executives. Pat Yongpradit, Microsoft GM of Education and Workforc...
Overview Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world's largest residential proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns th...
Funding Round Overview OpenAI has closed what is now the largest private financing in history—a $110 billion round at a $730 billion pre‑money valuation. This...
Ballooning memory prices are forecast to wipe out entry‑level PCs and curb global shipments this year, with a similar impact expected for smartphones. Analyst f...
Background For decades, planetary scientists have pored over a mystery hidden within the Moon rocks retrieved by Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and ’70s. Miner...
NASA revealed that astronaut Mike Fincke was the crew member who suffered a medical incident aboard the International Space Station in January, prompting the ag...
Background Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology. The m...
Convictions A Greek court convicted four individuals involved in marketing the Predator spyware that was at the centre of the 2022 wire‑tapping scandal. The de...
Proposed Colorado Bill SB26-051 Colorado lawmakers are proposing SB26-051, a bill that would require operating systems to register a user's age bracket and sha...
Layoffs Overview Jack Dorsey's Block is cutting more than 4,000 jobs—nearly half its workforce—as part of a deliberate shift toward becoming a smaller, “intell...
Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media about a new agentic AI called Einsteinhttps://www.learneinstein.com/. According to its developers,...
Overview Google has launched Nano Banana 2 Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, a faster, more realistic image‑generation model that is now the default across Gemini, Searc...
Report Overview New submitter sabbedehttps://tech.slashdot.org/~sabbede shares a report from CNN Politics: a sprawling Chinese influence operation—accidentally...
Release Overview Mozilla has released Firefox 148 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The update introduces a new AI Settings section that allows users to disable a...
Speaking of the Citrini's blog posthttps://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic, which imagines a near‑future AI‑driven economic collapse, and which helped trigger...
An anonymous reader shares a reporthttps://www.404media.co/the-government-just-made-it-harder-to-see-what-spy-tech-it-buys/: It might look like something from t...
Background A fictional memo set in June 2028, published by short‑seller Citrini Research, wiped roughly $10 billion off Indian IT stocks in a single trading se...
New York Sues Valve For Enabling ‘Illegal Gambling’ With Loot Boxes New York state has filed a lawsuit against Valve alleging that randomized loot boxes in gam...
Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice‑enabled chatbot, called Patty, is part of an overarching BK A...
Background HBO Max will be cracking down on password sharing around the world. The streamer first started enforcing this policy in the United States in late Au...
Layoffs EBay is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees, saying the layoffs are needed to align its workforce with strategic priorities. From...
Background An anonymous reader reports that a Cloudflare engineer implemented 94 % of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic’s Claude, spending roughly $1,100...
Report An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi—internally dubbed “Dara AI”—and have been using...
Kalshi, the prediction‑market platform regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC, has for the first time publicly disclosed the results of an i...
Tech firms are moving from encouragement to enforcement of AI use Tech companies ranging from 300‑person startups to giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsof...
Overview An anonymous reader shares a reporthttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/americans-are-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/. Brian Merchant, writing for...
