Tech

Sources: Meta cuts its annual distribution of stock options by ~5% for most of its staff, equating to tens of thousands of employees, after a ~10% cut in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-2-20

PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Android AI

Minecraft Java Is Switching From OpenGL To Vulkan (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20

Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data center energy demand, is raising a $25M seed extension at a ~$250M post-money valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-2-20 Energy AI

IRS Loses 40% of IT Staff, 80% of Tech Leaders In 'Efficiency' Shakeup (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled On Usage Goals and Underage Users At California Trial (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 Zuckerberg California

Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary behind remakes of older games like Demon's Souls and Uncharted; ~70 employees will lose their jobs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-20 Sony

China's Hottest App of 2026 Just Asks If You're Still Alive (slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 China

Meta says it is “explicitly separating” Quest VR from its Worlds platform, making Worlds “almost exclusively mobile”, letting it better compete with Roblox (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-20 VR Mobile

Docs: DHS has signed a five-year, $1B blanket purchase agreement with Palantir, allowing agencies like ICE to skip the competitive bidding process (www.wired.com)
2026-2-20

CZ returned to the US for the first time since his release from prison in 2024, to attend a WLF event at Mar-a-Lago attended by Brian Armstrong and others (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-20

Microsoft's New 10,000-Year Data Storage Medium: Glass (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 Microsoft

Europe's Labor Laws Are Strangling Its Ability To Innovate, New Analysis Argues (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 Europe

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (www.wired.com)
2026-2-20 AI Layoffs

Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-20 Startup AI Toronto

Bafta To Reward 'Human Creativity' as Film and TV Grapples With AI (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 AI

Google blocked over 1.75 million Play Store app submissions in 2025 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Google

Train for CompTIA, AWS, Cisco & more with this $40 course deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Cisco

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after Ring's Super Bowl Search Party ad, calling it a “perfect storm” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-20

Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-20 AI Goldman AMD

LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20

Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-20 AI Reddit

A Half-Century of US Labor Data Shows Steady Retreat From Evening and Night Work (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20

Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular modules used in IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B as the US seeks to reduce its reliance on China (www.axios.com)
2026-2-20 IoT China

New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools (slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 AI Freelance

Flaw in Grandstream VoIP phones allows stealthy eavesdropping (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20

New York pulls a proposal that would have allowed for robotaxi services outside NYC, a setback for Waymo, which wants to hit 1M paid weekly US rides by 2026 end (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-20 New York

Inside the “gay tech mafia” that mixes social and professional lives, as investors, entrepreneurs, and executives detail gay influence in Silicon Valley (www.wired.com)
2026-2-20 Entrepreneur

Accenture Links Staff Promotions To Use of AI Tools (slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 AI

10 Dark Details of the “Bodies in the Barrels” Murders (listverse.com)
2026-2-20

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