Tech

Infostealer malware found stealing OpenClaw secrets for first time (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-17

Crypto lender Nexo says it is relaunching in the US in partnership with Bakkt, three years after leaving the US and paying a $45M fine to settle SEC charges (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-17

Internal email: the European Parliament has blocked AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns (www.politico.eu)
2026-2-17 Europe AI

Ireland Launches World's First Permanent Basic Income Scheme For Artists, Paying $385 a Week (slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 Ireland

New EU Rules To Stop the Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17

As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is set to promote a frugal AI strategy focused on solving local issues (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-17 India AI

Passwords to passkeys: Staying ISO 27001 compliant in a passwordless era (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-17

A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17 India Startup

Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 Pentagon

A senior Pentagon official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating it as a “supply chain risk” (www.axios.com)
2026-2-17 Pentagon

Apple sends invites for a “special Apple Experience” event on March 4 in New York City; rumors suggest an M5 MacBook Pro, entry-level iPad Air, and iPhone 17e (www.macrumors.com)
2026-2-17 iPhone Apple MacBook New York iPad

Sony May Push Next PlayStation To 2028 or 2029 as AI-fueled Memory Chip Shortage Upends Plans (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 AI Sony

Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity? (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 AI

Samsung releases an ad for the Galaxy S26 series that briefly shows a “Zero-peeking privacy” toggle to black out on-screen content for onlookers at an angle (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-17 Samsung

Data analytics company Fractal, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, raised $313M in its Mumbai IPO; its shares fell 5% amid a weak Indian IPO market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 India IPO AI

Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-16 India Asia

Sources: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as the AI boom fuels huge memory chip demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 AI Sony

Turn 15 minutes into daily learning with this Headway deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-16

CISA gives feds 3 days to patch actively exploited BeyondTrust flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-16

Alibaba debuts Qwen 3.5, adding “visual agentic capabilities” to independently execute tasks, and says it is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-16 Alibaba

London lawsuit: Getir co-founders Nazim Salur and Serkan Boranç&inodot;l&inodot; sue Abu Dhabi's Mubadala for $700M, alleging a “significant loss” in breaking up Getir assets (www.ft.com)
2026-2-16 Asset London

Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring (t.co)
2026-2-16 AI

OpenAI retired GPT-4o on February 13, angering loyal users, 20K+ of whom signed a petition; 4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 chatbot

ByteDance says it “respects IP rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance” and it plans to “strengthen” safeguards, after Disney's legal threats (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-16

A look at the US tech industry's effort to influence Californian politics: fighting the 5% billionaire tax, super PACs, and seeking a new tech-friendly governor (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-16 Tax

A look at Anti Fund, a small VC firm cofounded by YouTuber Jake Paul that has gained access to hot rounds in startups like OpenAI, Anduril, Polymarket, and Ramp (fortune.com)
2026-2-16 Startup YouTuber

Sensor Tower: dating app downloads in Saudi Arabia have risen annually for five years, hitting 3.5M in 2025, as liberalization enables more casual relationships (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-16 Arabia Sensor Saudi Arabia

Analysis: sports bets on Kalshi generate an estimated ~$1.3B in annualized revenue, underscoring the threat prediction markets pose to traditional operators (www.ft.com)
2026-2-16

In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC” (www.implicator.ai)
2026-2-16 Zuckerberg

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source (x.com)
2026-2-16

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