Latest News

Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-18

Moment Ukrainian robot takes on Russian soldier in close combat gunfight on frontline (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-18 Russia Robot Ukraine

Tourists are ordered to leave Italian and Swiss Alps as villages are evacuated because there's too much SNOW (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-18 Italy Switzerland

Seen for the first time in 82 years, haunting faces of 200 Greek prisoners seconds before they were executed by the Nazis in one of WW2's forgotten atrocities (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-18 Greece

Flaws in popular VSCode extensions expose developers to attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18

Source: Benchmark's 2020 fund is now worth 10x+ and 2024 fund is 3x what investors put in, based on cash distributions and the paper value of its investments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18

The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 AI

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

Powerful cyclone kills dozens in Madagascar (PHOTOS/VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-2-18

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

Zelensky launches F-bomb-laden rant in Munich (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-2-18 Munich

India and France announce ‘special global strategic partnership' (www.rt.com)
2026-2-18 France India

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

Previous Page Next Page