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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition to Ray‑Ban Smart Glasses Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its Ray‑Ban smart glasses as soon as this year...
Details Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety—a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies—Ring announc...
An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, has been completely blocked in Russia for failing to comply with loca...
Overview Microsoft has patched a high‑severity vulnerabilityhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-notepad-flaw-let-files-execute-silently-...
IBM Plans To Triple Entry-Level Hiring in the US IBM said it will triple entry-level hiringhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/ibm-plans-to-trip...
Background WP Engine’s third amended complaint against Automattic and WordPress co‑founder Matt Mullenweg alleges that Mullenweg planned to impose royalty fees...
Funding Round Anthropic raised $30 billion in a Series G funding round, valuing the Claude maker at $380 billion. The round was heavily oversubscribed, prompti...
Report Details An anonymous reader shared a report stating that Palo Alto Networks chose not to publicly attribute a global cyber‑espionage campaign to China....
Smartphone‑Style Permission Prompts for Windows 11 Apps Microsoft is planning to bring smartphone‑style app permission prompts to Windows 11, requiring apps to...
Incident Overview An anonymous reader shares a report: The abrupt closure of El Paso's airspace late Tuesday was precipitated when Customs and Border Protectio...
Overview Amazon engineers have been pushing backhttps://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineers-grate-against-internal-limits-claude-code-kiro-ai-2026-2 again...
Study Findings A study by Fanous et al. tested GPT‑4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The researchers found that these larg...
Announcement AI startup Anthropic says it will ensure consumer electricity costs remain steady as it expands its data center footprint. Anthropic will work wit...
Meta Platforms' latest annual report contained an unusual, cautionary note for investors. Background - The tech giant’s auditor, Ernst & Young EY, raised a red...
Background Federal prosecutors have revealed that Peter Williams, the former general manager of U.S. defense contractor L3Harris's hacking tools division Trenc...
Siri AI Overhaul Delayed Apple's long‑promised overhaul of Siri has hit fresh problems during internal testing, forcing the company to push several key feature...
Report Summary An anonymous reader shares a report: an Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the “world is in peril” in part over AI advances sourcehttps://...
Ring's Super Bowl Ad and the “Search Party” Feature Ring’s Super Bowl ad on Sunday promoted Search Party, a feature that lets a user post a photo of a missing...
The Linux Mint developers are evaluating a shift to a longer development cycle. They argue that the current six‑month cadence, combined with LMDE releases, leav...
Job Growth in 2025 An anonymous reader shares a report: The U.S. economy experienced almost zero job growth in 2025https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/jan...
Overview Electric vehicles accounted for just 1 % of new car sales across Africa in 2025, but a study published in Nature Energy by researchers at ETH Zurich f...
Background The UK's Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the country's largest court reporting archivehttps://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/moj-or...
Overview HP has quietly launched a gaming laptop subscription service called the OMEN Gaming Subscription. Customers pay a monthly fee to use one of several ga...
Sony will ship its last batch of Blu‑ray recorders this month, according to Kyodo News, ending the company's decades‑long run in a product category it helped cr...
