Tech

Nigerian man gets eight years in prison for hacking tax firms (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Tax Nigeria

Texas sues TP-Link over Chinese hacking risks, user deception (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 China Texas

CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Dell flaw within 3 days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20

How infostealers turn stolen credentials into real identities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20

The RAM Crunch Could Kill Products and Even Entire Companies, Memory Exec Admits (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20

Amazon Dethrones Walmart as World's Biggest Company by Sales (slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 Amazon Walmart

FreeForm, which is building an AI native 3D printing system that uses 18 lasers to fuse metal powders into precision components, raised a $67M Series B (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-20 AI

West Virginia's AG sues Apple for allegedly violating consumer protection laws by failing to implement tools like PhotoDNA to detect CSAM stored on iCloud (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-20 Apple Virginia

Amsterdam-based Stacks, which builds AI software to automate accounting workflows, raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed, after a €10M seed in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-2-20 AI

ByteDance is currently hiring for nearly 100 US-based roles within its Seed AI team across San Jose, LA, and Seattle to develop LLMs, drug discovery, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-20 AI Seattle

EV Sales Boom As Ethiopia Bans Fossil-Fuel Car Imports (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20

Klarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 50%+ since its September 2025 NYSE IPO (t.co)
2026-2-20 IPO 4Q

Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B+ (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-2-20 Mobile

Amazon overtakes Walmart as the world's largest company by revenue, reporting $717B in 2025 sales compared to Walmart's $713.2B for the 12 months to January 31 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Amazon Walmart

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after a Super Bowl “Search Party” ad, calling it a “perfect storm” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19

Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-19

Atlassian's founders lost ~$7.2B in wealth in 2026, behind AppLovin's three founders, amid an SaaS rout; TEAM dropped ~48% YTD, the Nasdaq 100's worst performer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 SaaS Atlassian

Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19 Uber Child Abuse

Book extract: ex-Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton recounts his role in sparking North Korea's 2014 hack, one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-19 Korea Sony

India's AI Summit: Modi orchestrated a photo op with tech and business leaders holding hands in a line, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei awkwardly refused (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

The Gates Foundation says Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote at India's AI Summit after “careful consideration” amid controversy over his Epstein ties (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-19 India AI Bill Gates

Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19 India AI Entrepreneur

Russian forces in Ukraine face communications issues as SpaceX restricts Starlink access and Telegram faces a crackdown, per pro-Russian military channels (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Russia Ukraine SpaceX

Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B in building AI-related infrastructure over the next seven years, and JioHotstar plans a ChatGPT bot (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

Claims That AI Can Help Fix Climate Dismissed As Greenwashing (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 AI Climate

A $10 Plastic Speaker is the Most Durable Revenue Line in Indian Digital Payments (slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 India

How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets (www.wired.com)
2026-2-19

Trump Has Prepared Speech On Extraterrestrial Life (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Trump

Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Apple

Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English (restofworld.org)
2026-2-19 Facebook

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