1103 posts from this source
Background Anna's Archive, the shadow library that announced in December that it had scraped Spotify's entire cataloghttps://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/2...
Overview The Detroit Big Three—General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis—have collectively announced more than $50 billion in write‑downs on their electric‑vehicle...
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...
Live Translation Beta T‑Mobile is opening registration today for a beta test of Live Translation, an AI‑powered feature that will translate live phone calls in...
FDA Refuses to Review Moderna’s Experimental Flu Shot Application The Food and Drug Administration FDA has declined to begin a review of Moderna’s application...
Background Discord has moved to calm a user backlash over its upcoming age verification mandate by clarifying that the vast majority of people will never be as...
The Seductive Narrative in American Work Culture An anonymous reader shares a report: the most seductive narrative right now isn’t that AI will take your job,...
Seedance 2.0 Overview China’s Bytedance has released Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator that can handle up to four types of input simultaneously: images, vide...
Report Summary An anonymous reader shares a report: the Trump administration wants some of the world’s largest technology companies to publicly commit to a new...
Background An anonymous reader shares a report: In 1966, a beach‑ball‑size robot bounced across the Moon. Once it rolled to a stop, its four petal‑like covers...
Google expands “Results about you” tool Google on Tuesday expanded its Results about you tool to let users request the removal of Search resultshttps://blog.go...
Population Outlook The U.S., whose population the Census Bureau did not expect to start shrinking until 2081, may record its first-ever declinehttps://www.bloo...
Overview Microsoft has begun automatically replacinghttps://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/10/refreshing-the-root-of-trust-industry-collaboration-...
Background An anonymous reader reported that a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange ran a promotional campaign in which hundreds of prize payouts were only a f...
Apple and Google have agreed to a set of commitments to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority CMA that will prevent them from giving preferential treatment...
Overview The American economy's most valuable companies are now worth trillions of dollars more than their predecessors were a generation ago, yet they employ...
Tuition Increases The top private schools in New York City plan to charge more than $70,000 this year for tuition, an amount exceeding that of many elite colle...
Concentration Risk in Speculative‑Grade Credit Deutsche Bank AG analysts warn that the software and technology sectors represent one of the greatest concentrat...
If you think your daily doses of espresso or Earl Grey sharpen your mind, you might be right, new science suggests. The New York Times reports that a large new...
Industrial Scale Deepfake Fraud Deepfake fraud has gone “industrial,” according to an analysis published by AI experts. Tools to create tailored, even personal...
Study Overview A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health examined how the growing number of electric vehicles EVs and plug‑in hybrids in California...
Study Overview A new NBER working paper authored by researchers at the Federal Reserve, Northwestern's Kellogg School, and Johns Hopkins examines the forecasti...
> Linus Torvalds has confirmed the next major kernel series as Linux 7.0, reports Linux news website 9to5Linux.comhttps://9to5linux.com/linux-7-0-kernel-confirm...
OpenAI has started testing adshttps://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/ inside ChatGPT for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go subscription tiers in...
Overview Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch...
