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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...
Seamus Blackley's Comments Seamus Blackley, one of the original founders of Xbox who helped convince Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to back a console project mor...
Incident Summary A hacker exploited Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft...
Overview DVD and Blu‑ray sales have been in freefall for years, but the decline is slowing considerably as Gen Z buyers turn to physical media, driving a measu...
Background The screeching sound that Scotch tape makes when it is ripped off a surface—a fingernails‑on‑a‑chalkboard noise most people try not to think about—i...
Details An anonymous reader shares a report: Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan's offices on Wednesdayhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigatio...
Uber is one step closer to going airborne. On Wednesday, the company previewed its air taxi booking servicehttps://www.engadget.com/transportation/uber-previews...
HP has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 % of the cost of materialshttps://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/hp_inc_q1_2026/ needed to build a PC, up from b...
Apple's forthcoming touch-screen MacBook Pro models—the company's first-ever laptops to support touch input—will feature the iPhone's Dynamic Island at the cent...
Battery Installations in 2025 The United States installed a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30 % increa...
Background Grace Bell was born without a viable uterus due to Mayer‑Rokitansky‑Küster‑Hauser MRKH syndrome, a condition that affects roughly one in every 5,000...
Background Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue shared a now‑viral post on X describing an incident with an OpenClaw agent she had tasked with sorting throug...
Overview New datacentre projects in Great Britain are projected to demand more electricity than the country's current peak consumption, according to the energy...
Report Highlights An anonymous reader shares a report: Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, Cr...
Background Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a deadline of Friday evening to provide the military unfettered access to its AI mode...
Background More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers—distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools i...
Report Overview An anonymous reader shares a report that Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have authored a pap...
Background Microsoft has spent more than $76 billion acquiring game studios and publishers over the past few years in an attempt to turn Xbox into a Netflix‑li...
Background Discord announced plans to implement age verification globally starting next month. The rollout would require users to submit a face scan or governm...
Investigation into Pavel Durov Russia has opened an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for “abetting terrorist activitieshttps://www.ft.com/conten...
New AI Controls Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global “AI kill switch” that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser’s AI f...
A team of researchers working at Quantinuum in the United Kingdom and QuSoft in the Netherlands has now developed a quantum algorithm that solves a specific sam...
Record Installations in 2025 U.S. battery storage installations hit a record 57.6 GWh in 2025. According to the U.S. Energy Storage Market Outlook Q1 2026 from...
