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India's New Social Media Rules: Remove Unlawful Content in Three Hours, Detect Illegal AI Content Automatically (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-16 India AI Social Media

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-16 Iran

Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-16

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

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and several team members; Steinberger would likely work on personal agents (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-16

Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts (counterpointresearch.com)
2026-2-16

Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-16 India AI

'Babylon 5' Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-16 YouTube

This refurbished Microsoft Surface Pro 6 is on sale for just $230 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-16 Microsoft

Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-16

CTM360: Lumma Stealer and Ninja Browser malware campaign abusing Google Groups (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-16 Google Browser

DNA Mutations Discovered In the Children of Chernobyl Workers (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-16

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-16 Google

Oldest Active Linux Distro Slackware Finally Releases Version 15.0 (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-2-16 Linux

Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law (www.axios.com)
2026-2-16 AI Republican California

Analysis of JWST Data Finds - Old Galaxies in a Young Universe? (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-16

Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-16

Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 Apple Tesla MacBook Aluminum

Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-16

Vim 9.2 Released (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-16

As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (margaretstorey.com)
2026-2-15 AI

Apple Patches Decade-Old IOS Zero-Day, Possibly Exploited By Commercial Spyware (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-2-15 IOS Apple

Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead! (wccftech.com)
2026-2-15 AI Western Digital

Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission, says India will seek international agreement on a “global AI commons” at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-15 India AI

Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-15 AI

Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit “relates to a recent procurement decision” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-15 AI

Uber says it plans to launch Uber Eats in Austria and six other European countries in 2026, as it gains market share in the UK, Germany, France, and Spain (www.ft.com)
2026-2-15 Germany France Europe Uber Spain Austria

Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to roll out the feature globally (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-15 U.S. AI Airbnb

Additional Benefits For Brain, Heart, and Lungs Found for Drugs Like Viagra and Cialis (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-15

Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and closing at $198.79 on Feb. 13 (sherwood.news)
2026-2-15 Amazon

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