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Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found (science.slashdot.org)
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Five members of xAI's 12-person founding team have now left the company, with four of the departures coming in just the last year (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago

Global installed base of active smartphones grew 2% in 2025; eight OEMs had 200M+ active devices each, and nearly one in four active smartphones is an iPhone (counterpointresearch.com)
3 days ago iPhone

Google's Personal Data Removal Tool Now Covers Government IDs (tech.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Google

Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (www.businessinsider.com)
3 days ago Salesforce Slack

Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500+ ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Instagram

Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5075912 extended security update (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago Microsoft

Get AI outputs with side-by-side comparisons for a one-time $75 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago AI

Malicious 7-Zip site distributes installer laced with proxy tool (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago

The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline (news.slashdot.org)
3 days ago

Windows 11 KB5077181 & KB5075941 cumulative updates released (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago

Microsoft February 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 6 zero-days, 58 flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago Microsoft

Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago Facebook AI

Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving 25 years for fraud, files a long-shot request for a new trial, says new witness testimony could refute the prosecution's case (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago

Microsoft Begins the First-Ever Secure Boot Certificate Swap Across Windows Ecosystem (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Microsoft

Newo, which offers AI voice and text agents that act as always-on front desks for SMBs, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $32M (siliconangle.com)
4 days ago AI

A look at a16z's rising influence over Trump-era AI policy, including via Marc Andreessen building key relationships; an ex-official says a16z has “veto power” (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Trump AI

Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they expire later this year; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago Microsoft

Sources: KPMG negotiated lower fees from auditor Grant Thornton by arguing that AI will make it cheaper to do the work, and threatened to find a new auditor (t.co)
4 days ago AI KPMG

Microsoft rolls out new Secure Boot certificates before June expiration (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago Microsoft

Volvo Group North America customer data exposed in Conduent hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago U.S. Volvo

Gary Shapiro plans to step down as CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the owner and producer of annual CES events in Las Vegas, after 35+ years (variety.com)
4 days ago Vegas

A Bitcoin Blunder for the Ages: $40 Billion Accidentally Given Away (slashdot.org)
4 days ago Bitcoin

Sources: Spain-based Multiverse, which shrinks LLMs to reduce energy and compute costs, is in talks to raise ~€500M at a €1.5B+ valuation and has hit €100M ARR (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Energy Spain

As OpenAI moves to retire GPT-4o on February 13, sources say it is being scrapped partly because OpenAI struggled to contain its potential for harmful outcomes (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago

Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC3886 for a months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago China Singapore

Apple and Google Agree To Change App Stores After 'Effective Duopoly' Claim (apple.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Google Apple

Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $85M (www.calcalistech.com)
4 days ago SaaS AI

Vega, which uses AI to detect security threats directly within cloud services, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $185M (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI

Sources: the iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri is set for the week of February 23 and M5 MacBook Pros as early as March 2 (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago IOS iPhone MacBook

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