Tech

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

Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is “a step forward in core reasoning”, for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers; the .1 increment is a first for Google (9to5google.com)
2026-2-20 Google AI

HR Teams Are Drowning in Slop Grievances (slashdot.org)
2026-2-20

ZaiNar, a developer of a GPS alternative that uses Wi-Fi and 5G to provide location data, raised $10M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $100M (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-20 5G GPS

Ownwell, which uses AI to let homeowners appeal property taxes, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M; it also raised $20M in debt (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-2-20 Tax AI

New 'Massiv' Android banking malware poses as an IPTV app (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Android

Hackers target Microsoft Entra accounts in device code vishing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Microsoft

Police arrests 651 suspects in African cybercrime crackdown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Africa

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

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