Tech

Iron Mountain: Data breach mostly limited to marketing materials (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-4

AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30,000 users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say many viral posts were likely scripted by humans (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-4 AI

YouTube Kills Background Playback on Third-Party Mobile Browsers (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-4 Mobile YouTube

Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by investor enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and AI investments (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-4 AI Walmart

LexisNexis-owner Relx, Reuters-owner Thomson Reuters, and other stocks fell 10%+ after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work (t.co)
2026-2-4

Grindr is testing a subscription tier called Edge with AI-powered personalized matches and more, with prices ranging from $80 to $200 a week (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-4 AI

Overland AI, which develops off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for military purposes, raised $100M led by 8VC, bringing its total funding to $142M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-4 AI Robot Autonomous Car

Gruve, which taps unused power and space from US data center providers for AI inference, raised a $50M Series A extension, bringing total funding to $87.5M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-4 AI

Y Combinator says founders can opt to receive their customary allotment, typically about $500K, in the Circle-issued USDC, starting with the Spring 2026 cohort (fortune.com)
2026-2-4 Y Combinator

Crypto.com launches prediction market platform OG ahead of the Super Bowl, following 40-fold WoW growth in its event contracts business over the last six months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-4

PayPal's CEO Change Blindsided HP's Board (slashdot.org)
2026-2-4

A profile of Sam Altman, who says “we basically have built AGI, or very close to it” before dialing it back later and calling it “a spiritual statement” (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-4

Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B (www.gamesindustry.biz)
2026-2-4

Orion, which has developed an AI platform to replace data loss prevention tools, raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $38M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-2-4 AI

Adobe Is Killing A Popular Animation And Game Development Program (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-4 Adobe

Sources: after HP CEO Enrique Lores left to become PayPal CEO, HP was blindsided and rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had been at HP since 1989 (www.semafor.com)
2026-2-4

Fintech CEO and Forbes 30 Under 30 Alum Charged for Alleged Fraud (slashdot.org)
2026-2-4 Fintech

The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content (www.ft.com)
2026-2-4 ICO

Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective March 18; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998 (variety.com)
2026-2-4

The Switch is Now Nintendo's Best-Selling Console of All Time (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-3 Nintendo

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered “family care system”, currently in private testing (www.axios.com)
2026-2-3 Startup AI

PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.7B, missing est.; PYPL falls 15% pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-3 4Q

A profile of Brazilian neobank Nubank, which aims to enter the US market within 18 months, growing its 120M+ users; analysts expect $2.9B in 2025 net income (www.ft.com)
2026-2-3 Brazil

Uber rolls out its service in the Chinese gambling hub of Macau, its first new entry to an Asian market for years; Uber sold its China business to Didi in 2016 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-3 China Uber

Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced (t.co)
2026-2-3

Paris prosecutors say they raided X's French offices with assistance from Europol; Elon Musk and ex-CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to April hearings (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-3 France Elon Musk Paris

The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage (www.wired.com)
2026-2-3

Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-3 AI

Ten Forgotten American Wars (listverse.com)
2026-2-3 U.S.

Hidden Car Door Handles Are Officially Being Banned In China (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-3 China

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