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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...
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...
