#bbc.com. #Feb.20.2026 × Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss. But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: "We totally reject global governance of AI."
#Tech × #USA × #Asia #North America #India #Google
#wired.com. #Feb.20.2026 × Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists. House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.
#Science #Tech × #USA × #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.20.2026 × Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to CBP Agents Sparked a DOJ Probe. Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried to cultivate allies.
#Tech × #USA × #North America #Insular Oceania #Tonga
#wired.com. #Feb.20.2026 × A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon. The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.
#Tech × #USA × #Amazon #North America
#bbc.com. #Feb.19.2026 × What is Seedance? The Chinese AI app sending Hollywood into a panic. Clips of Deadpool and other film characters have sparked alarm within Hollywood over copyright infringement.
#Showbiz #Tech × #China #USA × #Hollywood #Asia #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.19.2026 × An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years. A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.19.2026 × Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block. Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.19.2026 × Our Favorite Budget Desktop Speaker Is an Even Better Buy Right Now. These compact Edifier speakers may not be the fanciest, but they’ll blow your monitor’s built-in speakers out of the water.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.19.2026 × Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI. The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.
#Business #Tech × #USA × #North America
#theguardian.com. #Feb.19.2026 × US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content. Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland Security
#Tech × #USA × #Europe #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.19.2026 × DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir. “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#theguardian.com. #Feb.19.2026 × Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’. From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at risk
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#computerweekly.com. #Feb.19.2026 × European politicians amplify disinformation about UN rapporteur | Computer Weekly. Government officials form the US and Europe have condemned UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for remarks about Isreal she never made, based on a truncated clip circulating online that takes her
#Politics #Tech × #United Kingdom #USA × #Europe #Asia #North America #Israel
#wired.com. #Feb.19.2026 × Inside the Gay Tech Mafia. Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.19.2026 × Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony. The Meta CEO stuck to a playbook of repetitive answers and buzzwords in a landmark trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#theguardian.com. #Feb.18.2026 × Illinois governor proposes cancelling tax breaks for datacenters. Pritzker’s move reflects increasing public pushback against resource-hungry facilities used to power the AI boom
#Politics #Tech × #USA × #North America
#theguardian.com. #Feb.18.2026 × Tesla avoids California sales ban by removing ‘autopilot’ from marketing. State regulators walk back suspension threat and say Tesla has stopped misleading drivers about the safety of its cars
#Automotive #Tech × #USA × #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.18.2026 × Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power. The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#wired.com. #Feb.18.2026 × Google’s Pixel 10a Looks Pretty Familiar. With specs nearly identical to last year’s Pixel 9a, the new Pixel 10a doesn’t pack as much of a punch as prior A-series smartphones.
#Tech × #USA × #North America #Google
#wired.com. #Feb.18.2026 × Save at Lowe’s With up to 40% Off Appliances and Daily Deals. Find the latest Lowe’s promo codes and offers, including up to 40% off select major appliances and $5 off $50 with sign-up, here at WIRED.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
#motorsport.com. #Feb.17.2026 × Apple TV F1 channel goes live: How to watch the 2026 season in the US. Apple has launched a dedicated Formula 1 channel on Apple TV in the United States, offering live coverage from 2026 after securing a five-year broadcast rights deal
#Automotive #Sport #Tech × #Formula One #USA × #North America
#theguardian.com. #Feb.17.2026 × ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show. Exclusive: ICE more than tripled the amount of data stored in Microsoft’s cloud at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology ballooned
#Tech × #Microsoft #USA × #North America
#theguardian.com. #Feb.17.2026 × 12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us. San Francisco’s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly, hinting at pressures soon hitting other sectors
#Health #Tech × #USA × #North America
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.17.2026 × How ICE uses facial recognition in the streets. Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains how ICE has effectively turned the US into a checkpoint society.
#Tech × #USA × #North America
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