Tech

Just $80 gets you a refurbished travel-ready Lenovo Chromebook (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-1 Lenovo

AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize (indiadispatch.com)
2026-2-28 India AI

Rubin Observatory Has Started Paging Astronomers 800,000 Times a Night (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28

Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many capable of spotting basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-28 AI

Southern California Air Board Rejects Pollution Rules After AI-Generated Flood of Comments (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 AI California

US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade (www.wired.com)
2026-2-28

Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years (www.culpium.com)
2026-2-28

Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (www.wired.com)
2026-2-28 Google Amazon Nvidia

Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-28 4Q

Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24 to restrict access to developer database service Supabase; the government did not publicly cite a reason (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-28 Database India

Perplexity Announces 'Computer,' an AI Agent That Assigns Work To Other AI Agents (slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 AI

OpenAI Fires an Employee For Prediction Market Insider Trading (slashdot.org)
2026-2-28

Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies (x.com)
2026-2-28 AI

Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-28 AI Nvidia

A look at a local group's lawsuit against Micron over its $100B New York manufacturing complex, alleging a rushed permitting process and environmental review (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-2-28 Manufacturing New York

Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-28

Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products (www.ft.com)
2026-2-28 China AI

Human Brain Cells On a Chip Learned To Play Doom In a Week (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28

Hyperion Author Dan Simmons Dies From Stroke At 77 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28

Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdos solutions, “cheap wins”, hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-2-28 AI Mathematics

Source: Sam Altman told employees the DOD is willing to let OpenAI build its own “safety stack” and won't force OpenAI to comply if its model refuses a task (fortune.com)
2026-2-28

CISA Replaces Bumbling Acting Director After a Year (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28

Sources: crypto investment firm Paradigm is looking to raise up to $1.5B for a new fund to expand into AI, robotics, and other forms of frontier tech (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-28 AI Robot

Source: the DOD appears to have accepted OpenAI's safety red lines, which were similar to Anthropic's, to deploy OpenAI's tech in classified settings (www.axios.com)
2026-2-28

Perplexity Announces 'Computer,' an AI Agent That Assigns Work To Other AI Agent (slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 AI

A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Virginia from enforcing a new law restricting children's social media use, on First Amendment grounds (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-28 Virginia

South Korea Set To Get a Fully Functioning Google Maps (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Korea Google

Dell stock closes up 22%, its biggest single-day gain since March 1, 2024, after the company gave an outlook for sales of its AI servers that exceeded estimates (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-28 AI

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company (x.com)
2026-2-28

Trump Orders Federal Agencies To Stop Using Anthropic AI Tech 'Immediately' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Trump AI

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