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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

How Trump Is Righting the Economic Ship After the SS Biden Disaster (www.heritage.org)
2026-2-20 Trump

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

Bangladesh charts a new multipolar course (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-2-20 Bangladesh

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

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