Tech

Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's “deeply distraught” with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-6 Apple Immigration Tim Cook

These open-box Sony noise-cancelling headphones are 33% off (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Sony

Y Combinator adds Canada back to its accepted countries list, and says it had removed the country because its top Canadian companies reincorporated in the US (betakit.com)
2026-2-6 Canada Y Combinator

Automattic and the Internet Archive Team Up To Fight Link Rot (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6

Microsoft to shut down Exchange Online EWS in April 2027 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Microsoft

OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code “to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer” (openai.com)
2026-2-6

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and “is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself” (www.zdnet.com)
2026-2-6

Anthropic says Opus 4.6 found 500+ previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting during its testing (www.axios.com)
2026-2-6

Anthropic says it found Opus 4.6 “brings more focus to the most challenging parts of a task without being told to” and “thinks more deeply and more carefully” (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-6

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.6 as Its AI Tools Rattle Software Markets (slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 AI

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.6 supports a 1M context window, scored 90.2% on BigLaw Bench, the highest for any Claude model, and boosts agentic capabilities (www.zdnet.com)
2026-2-6

Anthropic says Opus 4.6 adds “agent teams” that can split larger tasks into segmented jobs and integrates Claude directly into PowerPoint via a side panel (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-6

Q&A with Elon Musk on launching 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2026-2-6 China Manufacturing Elon Musk

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can scrutinize company data, regulatory filings, and market info; Anthropic now has 300K+ business users (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-6

Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after “strong early traction”, without sharing specific numbers (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-6 AI

Italian university La Sapienza goes offline after cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Italy

Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Western Digital

The US FCC grants Starlink competitor Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in 2025 (spacenews.com)
2026-2-6

DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-6 Russia

US tech stocks fall sharply in intraday trading: the Nasdaq drops 1.8%+, S&P 500 1.5%+, GOOG 3%+, QCOM 7%+, and AMZN 3%+, amid a selloff in software stocks (www.ft.com)
2026-2-6

Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-6 Google AI

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Startup Coinbase

Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Amazon AI

Gemini exits the UK, EU and Australia and cuts 25% of staff, as the crypto exchange refocuses on the US due to foreign markets proving “hard to win” (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-6 Australia

10 Wild Facts About Taxidermy That You Probably Didn't Know (listverse.com)
2026-2-6

Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M+ (www.siliconrepublic.com)
2026-2-6 Europe Fintech AI

Spotify Plans To Sell Physical Books (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Spotify

When cloud logs fall short, the network tells the truth (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6

Ukraine says Starlink terminals used by Russia on the battlefield have been deactivated via a verification process developed alongside SpaceX (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-6 Russia Ukraine SpaceX

Romanian oil pipeline operator Conpet discloses cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Romania

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