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Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-26 Microsoft Xbox

Source: Google plans to test search changes in Europe, displaying results from competing vertical search services next to its own, seeking to avoid EU fines (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-26 Europe Google

New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of “junk” CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-26 Mexico AI

Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to “advance Claude's computer use capabilities” (www.geekwire.com)
2026-2-26 NLP

Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-26 Mexico Hacker

Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling it to autonomously navigate apps like Uber and DoorDash (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-26 Google Uber Samsung

Sources: Thrive invested $1B in OpenAI in 2025 at a $285B valuation in a transaction akin to a call option; OpenAI was separately raising at a $830B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-26

Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, “a general-purpose digital worker” that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-2-26 AI

Source: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will sign White House's initiative to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers (www.foxnews.com)
2026-2-26 Google Amazon Microsoft AI Oracle

Samsung launches the $179 Galaxy Buds 4 and $249 Buds 4 Pro, keeping the AirPods-esque design, with better battery life and noise canceling, available March 11 (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-26 Samsung Battery

Samsung unveils the $1,299+ Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display feature that limits the screen legibility, an all-new agentic AI, improved night mode, more (www.zdnet.com)
2026-2-26 Samsung AI

Samsung announces the Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chipset, starting at $899 and $1099, respectively, a $100 hike (www.cnet.com)
2026-2-26 Samsung

Hands-on with Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display: very impressive with a dual-pixel system that allows users to toggle viewing angles to prevent side-peeking (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-26

DVD Sales Decline Slows Sharply as Gen Z Discovers the Appeal of Physical Media (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-26

Critical Cisco SD-WAN bug exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-26 Cisco

A livestream of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026 (www.youtube.com)
2026-2-26 Samsung

A live blog of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026, where the company is announcing the Galaxy S26 series (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-26 Samsung

Scientists Crack the Case of 'Screeching' Scotch Tape (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-26

Chinese cyberspies breached dozens of telecom firms, govt agencies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-26 China

Kalshi says it has suspended an editor for MrBeast and a former GOP California gubernatorial candidate for insider trading, its first public enforcement action (www.npr.org)
2026-2-26 Republican California

Court records: the FBI subpoenaed X for details about Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create 200+ sexual deepfakes of a woman he knew in real life (www.404media.co)
2026-2-26 FBI

Microsoft Japan Raided Over Suspected Violation of Anti-Monopoly Law (slashdot.org)
2026-2-26 Japan Microsoft

Marquis sues SonicWall over backup breach that led to ransomware attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-26

Israel-based Gambit Security, which offers an AI-native cyber resilience platform that autonomously maps infrastructure, raised $61M across seed and Series A (en.globes.co.il)
2026-2-26 Israel AI

The OpenClaw Hype: Analysis of Chatter from Open-Source Deep and Dark Web (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-26 Darknet

Sensor Tower: EA led all publishers in 2025 with 200M+ PC and console downloads, ahead of its $55B deal to go private; Fortnite had the top console player base (variety.com)
2026-2-26 Sensor

Uber Previews Its Dubai Air Taxi Service (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-26 Uber Dubai

Insurance brokerage Harper, which uses AI to automate submission routing and follow-up, raised $46.8M in combined Series A and seed led by Emergence Capital (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-26 AI Insurance

Gambit Security: an unknown hacker used Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data, including 195M taxpayer records, in December 2025 and January 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-26 Mexico Hacker

Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-26 Alibaba AI

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