While it might not be comprehensive, [Bret.dk] recently posted a retrospective titled “Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025.” The post covers 15 boards from 8 different companies. The cheapes… [+1366 chars]

While it might not be comprehensive, [Bret.dk] recently posted a retrospective titled “Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025.” The post covers 15 boards from 8 different companies. The …read more

Hackaday

Last Year in SBCs

Kharg Island is a small rocky outcrop just 15 miles (24km) off the coast of Iran - but despite its size, it is one of the most critical pieces of Iran's energy infrastructure.
US President Donald Tr… [+346 chars]

BBC Security Brief's Mikey Kay breaks down why Kharg Island is so strategically important for the US.

BBC News

Watch: Why Kharg Island is a lifeline for Iran

Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US and Israeli governments had launched a major combat operation against Iran in the early hours of Saturday morning, disinformation about the attack and… [+3945 chars]

WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

Wired

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran

E-paper tablet maker reMarkable is gearing up for a new device launch, according to leaker Evan Blass, a.k.a. @evleaks. And this time, it reportedly won’t be as niche as before.
Blass, who has a sol… [+2222 chars]

Say hello to the "reMarkable Paper Pure" tablet?

Gizmodo.com

Leak Claims Next reMarkable Tablet Will Be ‘Mass-Market Focused’

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The university said it was working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support.
The university said it was working to g… [+3077 chars]

Department of Homeland Security agents "made misrepresentations" to gain access to a Columbia University residential building and detained a student early Thursday morning, according to a statement issued by the school. "Our understanding at this time is that…

The Verge

DHS reportedly detained a Columbia University student and content creator

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If you still want end-to-end encrypted messaging, you should use WhatsApp, according to Meta.
If you still want end-to-end encrypted messaging, you should use W… [+2660 chars]

Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature because "very few people" were using E2EE in their DMs. Instagr…

Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used

After striking out trying to recruit the creator of open-source AI agent OpenClaw, Meta has settled for the guys who got OpenClaw agents talking…supposedly. According to a report from Axios, Meta is … [+3595 chars]

Because Facbook and Instagram don't have enough bots, apparently.

Mark Zuckerberg Decides Meta Needs More Slop, Buys the Social Network for AI Agents

AI can get you to Inbox Zero very easily: it’ll just delete all of your messages.
Over the weekend, Summer Yue, the director of safety and alignment at Meta’s superintelligence lab, posted on Twitte… [+2693 chars]

One small trick to get you to inbox zero.

Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff

After a rocky start, Discord has delayed the global rollout of its age-verification policies following user backlash.
Earlier this month, the messaging-based social platform announced that it would … [+3263 chars]

The is pushing back the global rollout of age checks until later this year.

Discord Is Delaying Age Checks Following User Backlash

SpaceX stunned the satellite industry in late January when it asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to launch up to one million satellites to create an orbital data center conste… [+3860 chars]

Amazon petitioned the FCC to deny SpaceX’s application to launch one million satellites, but the agency chairman isn't having it.

Feds to Amazon: Quit Whining About SpaceX and Launch Some Damn Satellites

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Its a slippery slope between AI photo editing tools and a full-on slop machine.
Its a slippery slope between AI photo editing tools and a full-on slop machine.… [+5757 chars]

Another Unpacked is nearly upon us. On February 25th, Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy S26 series of flagship phones - potentially including the S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra - with another round of AI-based features. That will come as a surprise to …

Samsung is on slop watch at Unpacked

Ping Fai Yuen, who is a U.K. resident, has accused his estranged wife of stealing a little over 2,323 bitcoin (worth around $172 million) from him in court documents. The theft is said to have taken … [+4315 chars]

Code is law, some say. That doesn't mean normal laws do not apply.

UK Man Accuses Spouse of Stealing $172 Million Bitcoin Password via CCTV Camera

The crypto bubble that inflated through 2021 burst in 2022 with two defining failures.
In May, Terraform Labs algorithmic stablecoin UST lost its $1 peg, eventually leading to hyperinflation of the … [+6387 chars]

The rot at the heart of crypto in 2022 is now up for debate, as the industry goes through another crash.

The Two Key Villains of 2022’s Crypto Crash are Trying to Rewrite History

Embark Studios, maker of The Finals and Arc Raiders, was formed back in 2018 by former veterans of Battlefield maker DICE. It’s now parted ways with one of those cofounders, CCO Rob Runesson, followi… [+2282 chars]

Robert Runesson was a longtime veteran of DICE before starting Embark Studios

Kotaku

Arc Raiders Studio Parts Ways With Cofounder Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations It Was Unable To Substantiate

People have been speculating about Microisoft’s plans for the next Xbox for over a year now and the company’s new gaming CEO just went ahead and tweeted them out. Recently appointed Xbox boss Asha Sh… [+2363 chars]

The news comes as a leadership shakeup has fans questioning the platform's future

Microsoft Confirms Next-Gen Xbox Is Still Happening, It’s Called Project Helix, And It’ll Play Your PC Games

The cats out of the bag. The next Xbox console is codenamed “Project Helix” and won’t just play past and future Xbox-only games, but also run every title built for PC.
Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s recen… [+4576 chars]

Xbox's 'Project Helix' isn't a 360 revolution, but a twisted ascent.

The Next-Gen Xbox Will Make Us Rethink Everything About Consoles

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie arrives in theaters in April. We know Yoshi, Bowser Jr., and Rosalina will be joining the sequel alongside the main returning characters, Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and Peach.… [+1617 chars]

Will Mario's dastardly counterpart and lover of mini-games make an appearance in the animated sequel?

Is Wario Going To Be In The Super Mario Galaxy Movie?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang celebrated an analysis that showed his company is the world leader in token costs, claiming the title of "Token King."Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images
<ul><li>Nvidia CEO Jensen H… [+3484 chars]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claimed the title of "Token King. In the future, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sees these building blocks of AI as a major resource.

Business Insider

Jensen Huang floated AI tokens as part of engineers' compensation. Sam Altman says they could one day be a form of universal basic income.

The 2000s was a new dawn for console gaming. The PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and even Dreamcast were expanding the horizons of what dreams could unfurl on the living room TV. It was a heyday for pr… [+3607 chars]

In 2001 pharmacy shelves were greeted with a gorgeous Amano cover. That wasn’t necessarily the plan.

The Story Behind One Of The Best Video Game Magazine Covers Of All Time

Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic. Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot
<ul><li>Anthropic's Claude AI models suffered several outages this week.</li><li>Some software developers said the disruptions… [+4345 chars]

AI tools like Claude are becoming embedded in engineers' day-to-day work, which means outages can send them back to an earlier era of coding manually.

Claude outages lay bare software developers' growing reliance on AI: 'I guess I'll write code like a caveman'

Britney Spears seems to have had a carefree time at the beach recently ... because in a snap she just posted, she's totally naked!
Brit posted the picture Friday night, showing she is clearly a supp… [+384 chars]

Britney Spears seems to have had a carefree time at the beach recently ... because in a snap she just posted, she's totally naked! Brit posted the picture Friday night, showing she is clearly a supporter of sun's out, bun's out ... but she made…

Britney Spears Shows Off Butt Cheeks in Nude Beach Photo

<ul><li>McDonalds Big Arch burger is rumored to finally make its way to the U.S. after appearing on overseas menus.
</li><li>The burger is described as two Quarter Pounder patties, three slices of w… [+1584 chars]

McDonald’s Big Arch burger may be coming to the U.S. soon. It has two Quarter Pounder patties, white cheddar, onions, and new Big Arch sauce.

Delish.com

A MASSIVE New McDonald's Burger Is Coming & Fans Are Starving For It

McDonald’s CEO and chairman Chris Kempczinski recently had to do the one part of the job I assume he dreads the most: Eat the food produced by his popular fast food chain. And it went about as well a… [+1824 chars]

This Video Of The McDonald’s CEO Struggling To Eat The New Big Arch Burger Is Cracking People Up

As spotted by IGN, journalist streamer Jake Lucky recently posted a clip of one of Crimson Deserts most peculiar features in action: a fast forward option that lets you set the games cutscenes to tri… [+2267 chars]

'You're... playing an RPG, but you're happy you can skip dialogue?'

Crimson Desert’s ‘TikTok Brain’ Fast-Forward Feature Has Fans Asking Why You’d Want To Skip The Game If It’s So Good

What you need to know
<ul><li>A rumor from an overseas tipster claims the Galaxy Z "Wide" Fold could offer a 7.6-inch display and a (combined) 4,800mAh battery.</li><li>The post adds that Samsung mi… [+3039 chars]

Could this be what a "Wide" Galaxy Z Fold offers consumers? This rumor says so, but there's still time left.

Android Central

'Wide' Galaxy Z Fold inbound, and these alleged specs have us curious

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Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto is probably safe. Your Reddit burner account, on the other hand
Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto is probably safe. Your Reddi… [+8442 chars]

Do you have a Reddit alt, secret X, finsta, or Glassdoor account you trash your boss with? AI might have just made it a lot easier to unmask you. That's the conclusion of a recently published study, which hints at some uncomfortable consequences for staying p…

AI tools can unmask anonymous accounts

Two days after At Chandee, who goes by Ricky, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the White House's X account posted about him, calling the 52-year-old the "WORST OF WORST" and … [+10931 chars]

Experts say this kind of media campaign is unprecedented and paints a distorted picture of immigrants and crime

How the federal government is painting immigrants as criminals on social media

One of the major complaints was that Discord planned to collect more government IDs as part of its global age verification process. It shocked many that Discord would be so bold so soon after a third… [+3272 chars]

Backlash intensified against Discord's age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the major com…

Slashdot.org

Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK

Patreon CEO Jack Conte.Courtesy of Patreon
<ul><li>Patreon CEO Jack Conte isn't happy about how AI is affecting the creator economy.</li><li>Conte spoke with Business Insider about his and Patreon's… [+3490 chars]

Patreon's CEO, Jack Conte, thinks the creator economy is being "left out" when it comes to compensation by AI companies.

Patreon's CEO says AI will be a 'bloodbath for the world's creative people' unless tech companies pay up

A Pentagon official demonstrated live how Palantir's secretive Project Maven can be used to carry out a strike.Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images
<ul><li>A Pentagon official recently demonstrated how a… [+4476 chars]

Cameron Staley, the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer, praised Palantir's tool for modernizing warfighting.

The Pentagon provided a rare inside look at Palantir's Project Maven and how the AI tool helps the military wage war

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) Alterra Mountain Company announced Tuesday that its CEO will be stepping down at the end of the season, bringing in new leadership for the company.
CEO Jared Smith will be step… [+2319 chars]

Alterra Mountain Company announced Tuesday that its CEO will be stepping down at the end of the season, bringing in new leadership for the company.

ABC 4

Ski industry shakeup coming as Alterra Mountain Company CEO steps down

Countries around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about their dependencies on the US. If you’ve purchase US-made F-35 fighter jets, you are dependent on the US for software maintenance.… [+205 chars]

Countries around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about their dependencies on the US. If you’ve purchase US-made F-35 fighter jets, you are dependent on the US for software maintenance.
The Dutch Defense Secretary recently said that he could jail…

Schneier.com

Jailbreaking the F-35 Fighter Jet

Authorities in Berlin are investigating an 18-year-old student on suspicion of defaming Chancellor Friedrich Merz during a student protest against the country's recently introduced military service.… [+1108 chars]

Dpa-international.com

German police probe student poster slur (Lick my balls Merz) against Merz

Last Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a surprise statement regarding the companys to bail on negotiations with the Department of War. While the Pentagon had already made extensive use of the… [+2826 chars]

Whatever spooked Claude’s creators out of the Pentagon is a-okay by OpenAI

OpenAI Says Hell Yea To To Helping Government With ‘Fully Autonomous Weapons’ As Trump Bombs More Countries

Would the Lady of the Canyon and the Queen of the Mushroom Kingdom be besties if they met in real life? Do you have the new Thomasthe Tank Engine train sim game on your radar? Are you holding out for… [+4188 chars]

Also: a Double Fine game nearly a decade in the making has a new release date

Mario Galaxy Movie Star Goes Viral For Being Asked The Dumbest Question Imaginable

What happens to a dead game if it refuses to die? Why did Hotel Barcelona have genAI to begin with? And MindsEye is promising to mount a comeback any day now. It’s the latest edition of Morning Check… [+4533 chars]

Also: one game ditches AI while another game company invests in AI war machines

Alan Wake 2 Studio Is Keeping Its Multiplayer Game Alive Even Though Only 38 People Are Playing It On Steam Right Now

What’s the proper punishment for Resident Evil Requiem leakers? One of gaming’s most outspoken developers has an idea. Will the new Castlevania be an RPG? Balatro still has new content coming, eventu… [+3840 chars]

Also: Evo promises it won't compromise its values now that it's fully controlled by Saudi Arabia

Okami Dev Says Leakers Who Spoil Resident Evil Requiem Should ‘Die A Thousand Deaths’

New betas are now available for developers. Apple has just released beta 2 updates for tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, and more.
Apple kicked off a new beta software cycle recently, and today beta 2 has a… [+1120 chars]

New betas are now available for developers. Apple has just released beta 2 updates for tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, and more.



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9to5Mac

Apple releases beta 2 for tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, more

Apple is currently beta testing iOS 26.4 as its next major iPhone update, but per 9to5Macs visitor logs, it appears theres a smaller software release launching first: iOS 26.3.1 is coming soon.
Earl… [+1210 chars]

Apple is currently beta testing iOS 26.4 as its next major iPhone update, but per 9to5Mac’s visitor logs, it appears there’s a smaller software release launching first: iOS 26.3.1 is coming soon.



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iOS 26.3.1 could launch soon as the next iPhone update

Two years ago, Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama accepted what is often called the worst assignment in politics rebutting the president's State of the Union address.
The televised response, bro… [+7648 chars]

Sen. Katie Britt, Republican of Alabama, is a budding bipartisan dealmaker. Her latest assignment: helping negotiate changes to immigration enforcement tactics.

SNL mocked her as a 'scary mom.' In the Senate, Katie Britt is an emerging dealmaker

OpenClaw's lobster craze shows how viral culture is turning AI tools into communities that people want to belong to.Ole Schwander/Getty Images
<ul><li>OpenClaw is having a cultural moment across the… [+6562 chars]

OpenClaw's lobster craze shows how viral culture is turning AI tools into communities users want to belong to.

From lobster hats to claw hands: OpenClaw's internet moment

When Mayor Zohran Mamdani took the stage at the Museum of the City of New York last week, he was surrounded by city workers invited to share iftar, the dinner held after sunset to break the daily Ram… [+7547 chars]

NYC Mayor Mamdani observed Ramadan publicly at a time when many politicians and activists on the right are voicing hostility and in some cases open bigotry toward American Muslims.

Mamdani put Ramadan at the center of NYC's cultural life, bringing joy -- and a backlash

As a regulated exchange, we ban insider trading. In the past year, weve opened 200 investigations and frozen a number of flagged accounts. Of those investigations, over a dozen have become active cas… [+3126 chars]

How suspicious activity was flagged, accounts were frozen, and penalties were applied in two trading violations cases.

Kalshi.com

Two Insider Cases We've Recently Closed

FBI Director Kash Patel has announced the arrest of John Daghita, who allegedly stole $46 million from the U.S. governments crypto holdings in 2024. Daghita is said to have been arrested on the islan… [+4408 chars]

The theft initially grabbed attention over reports that the son of an executive in charge of the crypto stash was involved.

FBI Arrests Man Who Allegedly Stole $46 Million Worth of Crypto from U.S. Government Stockpile

By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that two Muslim Democratic U.S. Representatives, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, should … [+2815 chars]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that two Muslim Democratic U.S.

Yahoo Entertainment

Trump says Muslim lawmakers Omar, Tlaib should be removed from US after speech clash

The OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial intelligence models by comparing it to the amount of energy required by human development.
People t… [+3570 chars]

OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in India

Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’

Millennials, it's all our fault: The avocado toast, and the "cringe" talk from ChatGPT and other LLMs.Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images
<ul><li>ChatGPT's language leans "millennial"… [+4881 chars]

From the people who brought you avocado toast: We millennials are bringing the "chaotic," "unhinged," and other generational-coded words to ChatGPT.

I'm sick of ChatGPT sounding like a cringe millennial.

Tributes have been paid to Rob Grant, the comedy writer best known as the co-creator of long running hit sitcom Red Dwarf. Grant was also one of the main writers on Spitting IMage for many years, wri… [+2007 chars]

Tributes have been paid to Rob Grant, the comedy writer best known as the co-creator of long running hit sitcom Red Dwarf. Grant was also one of the main writers on Spitting IMage for many years, writing regularly with Doug Naylor.The news was broken by the R…

Beyond The Joke

Red Dwarf creator Rob Grant has died

LONDON and NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump said that the U.S. military has begun "major combat operations" in Iran and calling on the Iranian people to rise up and seize the opportunity for regime… [+3307 chars]

Donald Trump said the U.S. military has begun "major combat operations" in Iran and calling on the Iranian people to rise up and seize the opportunity for regime change.

Abcnews.com

Trump warns of potential US casualties in 'massive ongoing operation' in Iran

Top Democrats on Thursday accused Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department of a "cover-up" over how they have handled the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
"We're here today to put … [+3772 chars]

DOJ said it's reviewing if files were "found to have been improperly tagged."

Top Democrats accuse Bondi and DOJ of Epstein files 'cover-up'

It’s safe to say that God of Warvideo game creator David Jaffe has some notes on the first-look image (above) Prime Video recently released of its forthcoming TV adaptation.
In a nearly seven-minute… [+1784 chars]

It’s safe to say that God of War video game creator David Jaffe has some notes on the first-look image (above) Prime Video recently released of its forthcoming TV adaptation. In a nearly seven-minute-long video reaction posted to his YouTube, David Jaffe ridi…

Deadline

‘God Of War’ Game Creator Mocks Prime Video’s “Terrible” First Image: “None Of These Characters Look Very Interesting Or Appealing”

But this was a childish joke, the stuff of novelty songs. The United States had not, until Trump, bombed Iran. Nor had Iran directly attacked the United States. A close brush came in 1988, when, duri… [+3297 chars]

A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence.

The New Yorker

What’s Behind Trump’s New World Disorder?

ClawCon had a nice step-and-repeat at the entrance, where techies took selfies.Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider
<ul><li>I went to ClawCon in New York, a gathering for fans of Peter Steinberger's op… [+6327 chars]

On Wednesday, hundreds of OpenClaw fans packed tightly into a West Village event space to network, fan out, and munch on lobster tails.

I went to ClawCon, where OpenClaw obsessives ate free lobster tails and debated about AI

Capcom has at last acknowledged the fact that Resident Evil Requiem has now been widely leaked, and promised "firm action" against those responsible. 
In a statement posted to social media, Capcom s… [+2535 chars]

Capcom has at last acknowledged the fact that Resident Evil Requiem has now been widely leaked, and promised "firm action" against those responsible.

Capcom Pledges 'Firm Action' Following Widespread Resident Evil Requiem Leaks, Begs Fans Not to 'Ruin' Excitement for Others

Chicago, IL – February 24, 2026 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks… [+6070 chars]

Taiwan Semiconductor, Micron and Super Micro are outpacing NVIDIA in 2026 as AI-driven data center demand fuels chip and server growth.

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights NVIDIA, Taiwan Semiconductor, Micron Technology and Super Micro Computer

vivo recently began teasing the T5x 5G in India and has now confirmed the phones launch date along with a few key specifications. The phone is set to succeed the vivo T4x, which debuted in March last… [+905 chars]

vivo recently began teasing the T5x 5G in India and has now confirmed the phone’s launch date along with a few key specifications. The phone is set to succeed the vivo T4x, which debuted in March last year.

The vivo T5x 5G will be unveiled in India on March …

GSMArena.com

vivo T5x 5G to launch in India next week

<ul><li>One lucky Galaxy S26 Ultra buyer has already received their order.</li><li>The customer appears to be in the EU.</li><li>Were short on details, but they report buying the phone directly from … [+1861 chars]

The Galaxy S26 series is expected to start shipping on March 6, but a lucky buyer has already had their Galaxy S26 Ultra delivered.

Android Authority

A lucky customer has already received their Galaxy S26 Ultra

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced eight pilot projects to test Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing vehicles (eVTOL) that’s scheduled to start across 26 states this summer.
Offi… [+4945 chars]

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Promises the ‘Future of Aviation’ With New eVTOL Program

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Exploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?

Tuananh.net

Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite

Timothée Chalamet, a Best Actor nominee for this weeks Oscars, has found himself at the center of yet another cyclone of contention that swirled over the weekend. The actor, nominated for his perform… [+12598 chars]

This caps off a rocky awards season for the Marty Supreme actor.

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