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Announcement Google has introducedhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/ Gemini 3.1 Pro, a reasoning‑focused u...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last month, Jason Grad issued a late‑night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup: > “You’v...

Overview Minecraft: Java Editionhttps://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/another-step-towards-vibrant-visuals-for-java-edition is switching its rendering backen...

Overview The IRS’s IT division has lost roughly 40 % of its staff and nearly 80 % of its tech leadership as part of a federal “efficiency” overhaul, according...

Testimony Overview Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg faced a barrage of questions about his company’s efforts to secure users’ time and attention at a landm...

Overview A bare‑bones Chinese app called “Are You Dead?”—whose entire premise is that solo‑living users tap daily to confirm they’re still alive, triggering an...

Project Silica Overview Microsoft Research has published a paper in Nature detailing Project Silica, a working demonstration that uses femtosecond lasers to et...

Overview A new essay in Works in Progress Magazine argues that Europe’s difficulty in producing companies like Tesla or Waymo does not stem from insufficient r...

Bafta to Reward 'Human Creativity' as Film and TV Grapples With AI Bafta has brought in “human achievement” as a guiding principlehttps://www.ft.com/content/25...

AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models — Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini — appear complex but follow predictabl...

Study Overview A new study PDF from Ramp's economics lab has found that businesses are steadily replacing freelance workers hired through platforms like Upwork...

Accenture has reportedly started tracking staff use of its AI tools and will consider this data when deciding on top promotions, as the consulting company seeks...

Overview Workplace grievances that once fit in a single email are now ballooning into 30‑page documents stuffed with irrelevant historical detail, made‑up lega...

Interview Highlights Phison CEO Pua Khein‑Seng, whose company is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices, admitte...

Amazon Dethrones Walmart as World's Biggest Company by Sales An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has officially dethroned Walmarthttps://www.bloomberg....

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: In 2024, the Ethiopian government banned the import of fossil‑fuel‑powered vehicles and...

Overview India’s digital payment platforms process trillions of dollars a year through UPI, the government‑built real‑time payments rail that handles more than...

Findings An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claim...

Trump’s Alleged Speech on Extraterrestrial Life According to Lara Trump, Donald Trump has prepared but not yet delivered a speech about extraterrestrial life,...

Investment Overview Uber plans to invest $100 million in EV charging infrastructure to support current and future robotaxi fleets in cities such as Los Angeles...

Overview Google's Pixel 10a is essentially a flatter version of last year's Pixel 9a, keeping the same Tensor G4 chip, camera hardware, RAM, storage, and $500...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta is preparing to spend $65 million this yearhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/techno...

Background Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in a landmark Los Angeles trialhttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-landmark-social-media-...

Overview Google is bringing its Lyria 3 AI music model into the Gemini app, allowing users to generate 30‑second songs from text, images, or video prompts dire...

Background Mac owners have long relied on tools such as CrossOver and the Game Porting Toolkit to run many Windows games on macOS. Hong Kong‑based GameSir, kno...

Legal Action Overview TP-Link is facing legal actionhttps://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/texas_sues_tplink_over_china/ from the state of Texas for allegedly...

Key Findings - AI adoption causally increases labour productivity by 4 % on average across the EU. - The productivity boost occurs without reducing employment...

AI Rewrite Specialist Initiative Cleveland.com, the digital arm of Ohio's Plain Dealer newspaper, has removed writing from the workloads of certain reporters a...

AI Displacement of White-Collar Workers Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and longtime Universal Basic Income advocate, published a blog post this...

Origins Linus Torvalds released the first public snapshot, Linux 0.02, on October 5 1991 via a Finnish FTP server. The snapshot contained about 10,000 lines of...

Report An anonymous reader writes: Electric buses are proving unreliable this winter for Vermont's Green Mountain Transit, as it needs to be over 41 °F for the...

Bug Overview Microsoft has identified a bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot that has been summarizing confidential emails since late January. The issue bypasses data...

Background Ring’s AI‑powered Search Party featurehttps://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/11/1844232/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet link...

WordPress has started rolling out an AI assistant built into its site editor and media library that can edit and translate text, generate and edit images throug...

Background An anonymous reader shares a reporthttps://mydigitaldive.com/lab-grown-meat-exists-nobody-wants-to-eat-it/. In 2013, scientists unveiled the first l...

Overview The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its earlier decision on Moderna's flu vaccine and agreed to review it for possible approval, Moderna ann...

An anonymous reader shares a report: An Indian university has been asked to vacate its stall at the country's flagship AI summithttps://www.reuters.com/world/ch...

Background: Solow's Productivity Paradox In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow observed a slowdown in productivity despite the rapid advancement o...

Study Overview A small double‑blind clinical trial found that a single intravenous dose of DMT produced rapid and clinically meaningful reductions in symptoms...

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.6https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6, the first upgrade to its mid‑tier AI model since version 4.5 arrived i...

Overview Apple is reportedly developing a suite of AI‑powered accessories—including smart glasses, a wearable pendant, and camera‑equipped AirPods—that will pa...

Background Discord’s recent global rollout of strict age‑verification checks has sparked backlash among users. The platform now requires a face scan or governm...

Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from The Washington Post noting that David Greene, a veteran public‑radio host who has anchored NPR’s “Morning E...

Proposal Overview A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel's DRM Panic screen to a more user‑friendly, BSOD‑style experience....

Overview Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin writes: KDE Plasma is a popular desktop and mobile too environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX‑like operating systems...

Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from Ars Technica: more than two years after Broadcom took over VMware, the virtualization company's customers a...

Lawsuit Overview A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely Chi...

It’s so stupid. Do you honestly believe this will happen, where real money is on the table? I am sure there’s nuance: he’s saying it could happen, I suppose, an...