Tech

Benchmark hires Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital and Lattice, as its fifth general partner; three Alt Capital team members will join him at Benchmark (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-18

Chinese hackers exploiting Dell zero-day flaw since mid-2024 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 China

Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the “latest AI breakthroughs and updates” in Gemini, Android, and more (9to5google.com)
2026-2-18 Android Google AI Google I/O

Microsoft's AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months (slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 Microsoft AI

Notepad++ boosts update security with ‘double-lock' mechanism (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18

Block ads & hide your IP with this AdGuard $40 family suite deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18

Some private software companies including McAfee released earnings early to reassure investors worried about an AI-linked selloff, dubbed the “SaaSpocalypse” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 AI

Britain Lost 14,000 Pubs, a Quarter, in 13 Years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 U.K.

A YouTuber's $3M Movie Nearly Beat Disney's $40M Thriller at the Box Office (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 YouTuber

Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers like Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, raised $70M led by StepStone to expand into gaming, sports, and music (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18

Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses (www.axios.com)
2026-2-18 AI

Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 AI Apple

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, consistency, and more, for Free and Pro users; it features a 1M token context window in beta (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-18

Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 AI Paris

Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 SpaceX

Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits (www.axios.com)
2026-2-18 CFTC

Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 NLP WordPress AI

SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 IPO Mobile

Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-18

Ireland now also investigating X over Grok-made sexual images (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Ireland

Poland arrests suspect linked to Phobos ransomware operation (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Poland

3 years of web hosting is currently just $50 in this lifetime deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18

New Keenadu backdoor found in Android firmware, Google Play apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Android Google

What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18

Microsoft Teams outage affects users in United States, Europe (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Europe Microsoft

Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18

99% of Adults Over 40 Have Shoulder 'Abnormalities' on an MRI, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 Snapchat

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