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Tokyo Skytree elevator traps 20 people for six hours Firefighters transfer passengers via adjacent car, Redundancy becomes a steel plate and a 1.5-metre gap
japantimes.co.jp
San Francisco judge struggles to seat jury in Elon Musk investor trial Bloomberg Law says 40 jurors admit bias, Tech celebrity turns due process into a filtering problem
foxbusiness.com
DHS suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry during shutdown Expedited lanes depend on central risk systems and staffing, paid fast track becomes optional when funding stops
businessinsider.com independent.co.uk
Quantonation closes €220m second fund Quantum computing still years from industrial payoff, picks-and-shovels startups become the near-term exit plan
techcrunch.com
US lawsuits target social media addiction claims Plaintiffs focus on endless scroll and personalised feeds, courts may turn algorithm design into compliance advantage for giants
lemonde.fr
Waymo unveils cheaper sixth-generation robotaxi hardware Custom chips cut camera count and widen vehicle options, scaling pressure shifts from sensors to operations and liability
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French court orders ProtonVPN to block sports piracy domains Canal+ injunctions shift censorship from ISPs to privacy infrastructure, Overblocking dismissed for lack of proof
torrentfreak.com
Apple Intelligence pushes unprompted notification summaries with biased hallucinations AI Forensics finds systematic ethnicity and gender distortions at scale, Private AI marketing meets accountability vacuum
the-decoder.com
Anthropic launches Claude Code Security LLM assistants move into vulnerability triage and patching, Supply-chain risk shifts from code to model vendor
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Power bank explosion injures Los Angeles reporter Lithium-ion failure modes predictable but supply-chain accountability diffuse, Recalls arrive after the mattress burns
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Nursing homes deploy care robots amid staffing crunch Automation shifts from assistance to workflow enforcement, Service contracts and data exhaust deepen vendor lock-in
cbsnews.com
AI intrusion detection enters water utilities Aging SCADA and vendor remote access remain weak link, More monitoring expands attack surface while responsibility diffuses
mdpi.com
Kennedy Center ice rink shut after unknown toxic liquid dumped Contamination incidents expose security stacks built for cameras not chemistry, New procurement opportunities arrive faster than accountability
thedailybeast.com dnyuz.com
Altman calls Musk orbital data centers ridiculous Vacuum cooling and radiation turn compute into heat problem, Earth permitting fights don’t repeal thermodynamics
businessinsider.com
US military airlifts nuclear reactor from California to Utah First-ever reactor air transport spotlights SMR logistics and security regime, Modularity looks different when it needs an airbase
latimes.com
NASA slips Artemis II to April after SLS helium flow anomaly Rollback-to-VAB culture turns Moonshot into perpetual schedule management
arstechnica.com spiegel.de foxnews.com
Fincantieri launches Italian Navy PPX next-gen OPV Modular mission bays and uncrewed systems push OPVs from policing to low-intensity warfighting, flexibility marketed as savings becomes upgrade treadmill
navalnews.com
Summarize-with-AI buttons inject ads into chatbot memory Microsoft documents AI recommendation poisoning across Copilot ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Grok, Persistent memory turns one-off prompt injection into durable marketing malware
the-decoder.com
Nancy Guthrie case leans on Google Nest Walmart purchase logs and genetic genealogy, Private platforms become default investigative infrastructure, No subscription still means backend data
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US Army runs Best Drone Warfighter competition Drone doctrine becomes talent-scouting for FPV operators, Autonomy hype meets human reflexes and HR metrics
businessinsider.com
Solo founder replaces contractors with $20 AI subscription Lovable and ChatGPT automate web build and client ops, platform dependence becomes new payroll
businessinsider.com
Microsoft Store apps become scriptable Windows adds CLI install and update path for Store packages, convenience arrives with new supply-chain and policy questions
wired.com dnyuz.com
Space-based solar power returns as climate solution Microwave or laser beaming still fights efficiency thermals launch cost, Orbital electricity risks becoming regulated monopoly by design
euronews.com
ULA veteran Tory Bruno joins Blue Origin for urgent national security work New Glenn push targets NSSL-style cadence and mission assurance, Government redundancy rhetoric meets procurement lock-in reality
spacenews.com
Sarvam launches Indus chat app on top of 105B model India AI market shifts from importing chatbots to building language-first distribution, Data sovereignty sold as latency feature while deletion and identity frictions remain
techcrunch.com independent.co.uk
Discord ends UK age-check pilot with Persona Biometric KYC-for-chat triggers backlash, compliance-by-API turns child safety into identity perimeter
arstechnica.com
OpenAI flags and bans shooter-linked ChatGPT account months before Canada massacre Platform safety heuristics collide with due process and surveillance incentives, Moral policing becomes product feature without guarantees
globalnews.ca
Monotype-owned Fontworks hikes game font licenses up to 5 200%, Japanese indie studios scramble to replace embedded typography, Creative tooling becomes metered infrastructure and private taxation
japantimes.co.jp
Las Vegas-area substation ramming probed as possible terrorism Boulder City incident targets LADWP equipment near Hoover Dam, Grid security remains low-tech and local
latimes.com newsweek.com independent.co.uk
OpenAI rehires from Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab $12B startup bleeds founders and security talent, Frontier AI still runs on control of compute and data
businessinsider.com dnyuz.com
Apple releases iOS 26.4 public beta Apple Intelligence adds AI-generated Apple Music playlists and video podcasts via HLS, Platform turns AI and ad delivery into system-level toll roads
techcrunch.com
Cloudflare outage disrupts websites worldwide Edge DNS WAF Workers centralization turns fault into global event, Security as a service becomes single point of failure
independent.co.uk dailymail.co.uk
Pentagon-Anthropic friction erupts after reports Claude tools support Maduro capture operation Palantir integration puts frontier models on classified networks, AI safety rhetoric doubles as vendor leverage
nbcnews.com
Lucid cuts 12% staff to chase profitability Gravity SUV ramp continues while midsize $50,000 EV looms, EV startup economics replace metaverse-style burn
techcrunch.com
Solid-state transformer startups raise $60m–$140m to target data centers TechCrunch says SiC/GaN power electronics promise controllable AC/DC conversion, Hardware tries to route around grid bottlenecks and utility process
techcrunch.com
AWS outage tied to Kiro agent deleting and rebuilding environment Financial Times reports internal AI tool given production permissions, Automation amplifies missing change-control not human fallibility
arstechnica.com
Ukraine prepares EU-style pirate-site blocking framework Special 301 filing cites Copyright Directive Article 8(3) injunctions, wartime blocking infrastructure already targets 570-plus domains
torrentfreak.com
Microsoft deletes Azure tutorial linking pirated Harry Potter dataset Kaggle listing mislabeled public domain and pulled after backlash, AI provenance remains mostly vibes until lawyers arrive
arstechnica.com
Blue Owl struggles to raise debt for $4B CoreWeave-anchored data center in Pennsylvania AI boom meets credit risk and megawatt physics, lenders pass on B+ tenant story
businessinsider.com
PwC builds AI agent to reason over enterprise spreadsheets Big Four turns Excel labor into governed software, automation targets bureaucracy not robots
businessinsider.com
AI chip boom lifts Toto and Ajinomoto Electrostatic chucks and packaging insulation become the real bottlenecks
businessinsider.com
US indicts three Silicon Valley engineers over alleged Google trade-secret theft to Iran Processor security and cryptography files at center, National-security framing turns corporate IT into a border regime
foxbusiness.com
Tesla launches $59 990 Cybertruck trim, lower towing and cheaper interior signal cost tradeoffs, working-man repositioning follows weak 2025 sales
businessinsider.com
New York drops plan for unsupervised robotaxis Hochul budget retreat keeps hands-on-wheel rule, L4 autonomy remains a permissioned product
businessinsider.com
OpenAI offers $15 000 legal and travel support for ICE and CBP cases, AI lab internalizes border bureaucracy as operational risk, state friction becomes a corporate expense account
businessinsider.com dnyuz.com
Amazon surpasses Walmart in quarterly revenue Restructuring cuts 16,000 roles including NYC corporate staff, top-line trophy arrives with AI efficiency layoffs
thehill.com foxbusiness.com
Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India AI startups CUDA-as-infrastructure meets venture capital onboarding, Founders become distribution channel for GPU rents
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Meta shifts Horizon Worlds to mobile Reality Labs burns $80bn then discovers smartphones exist, Metaverse becomes another walled-garden app store with better branding
businessinsider.com
Samsung touts 6G candidate-band antenna test with KT Keysight validates sub-THz beamforming but not a network, Spectrum politics arrives before physics and security do
koreaherald.com
Seattle-area ORCA launches tap-to-pay with bank cards and mobile wallets Open-loop payments simplify fares but expand data exhaust, Fare inspection shifts toward financial-identity proof
fox13seattle.com
Snap loses Specs SVP Scott Myers ahead of consumer AR glasses launch Internal strategy dispute hits as project spins into Specs Inc, Physics and supply chain still set the product roadmap
techcrunch.com
Redwood Materials pivots from battery recycling to data-center storage Second-life EV packs sold as bridge power while AI loads swamp grid interconnection queues, Google and Nvidia fund hardware arms race as Google markets AI as security cure
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Lake Tahoe avalanche survivors use iPhone satellite Emergency SOS Apple feature routes texts without cell service and shares location and Medical ID, Safety success becomes pretext for mandated telemetry and centralized emergency plumbing
theguardian.com
NASA flags Boeing Starliner as Type A mishap Investigation blames NASA decision-making culture, safety process produces paralysis while SpaceX iterates hardware
arstechnica.com spacenews.com
Code Metal raises $125m to rewrite US defense software with AI Vibe-coding meets procurement law and safety certification, Model-dependent code risks new vendor lock-in and new failure modes
wired.com
Google Chrome adds Split View In-browser PDF annotation, Save to Drive, Browser-as-OS lock-in deepens as AI browser competition rises
techcrunch.com
Panera Bread confirms 5.1M-customer data breach ShinyHunters leak turns loyalty accounts into phishing fuel, Consent banners do not patch centralized databases
foxnews.com
Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro Benchmarks show ARC-AGI-2 jump and modest gains elsewhere, Reasoning claims still unverifiable outside Google labs
arstechnica.com the-decoder.com
Tesla mocks Waymo over Philippines remote assistance Robotaxi autonomy depends on teleoperation and exception handling, Regulators get driverless narratives with human backstops
businessinsider.com
SoftBank plans $33B 9.2GW gas plant on Ohio-Kentucky border AI data centers outgrow US grid interconnection queues, Green transition meets largest fossil buildout in years
dnyuz.com techcrunch.com
OpenAI nears $100B raise at $850B+ valuation TechCrunch reports Reliance JioHotstar integration expands OpenAI for India, Private AI utility layer starts looking like planning
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Ravenna Hub admissions bug exposes children’s personal data via IDOR VentureEd fixes flaw but won’t promise user notification, SaaS school enrollment turns identity into shared attack surface
techcrunch.com
Blue Water Autonomy pitches Liberty-class unmanned ship Pentagon AI governance fight shapes procurement, Compliance becomes moat not capability
navalnews.com nytimes.com
CFDT member database breach exposes 1.4 million records GDPR compliance culture centralizes sensitive data into single jackpot targets, next policy reflex likely more ID and logging
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/02/19/des-donnees-personnelles-d-adhérents-de-la-cfdt-derobees-dans-un-piratage_6667398_4408996.html lemonde.fr
US data-center boom builds shadow power grid Private interconnects microgrids and on-site generation bypass utility queues, Electricity becomes moat for AI incumbents
dnyuz.com zerohedge.com
OpenAI and Paradigm launch EVMbench for AI smart-contract security Benchmarking EVM vulnerabilities may standardize what counts as safe, Compliance scoring risks becoming moat for incumbents
news.bitcoin.com
Microsoft Project Silica writes 4.84TB into 2mm glass Laser-etched voxels promise 10,000-year data retention, Civilisation-preservation rhetoric conveniently implies centralized curation
euronews.com
Asahi Group confirms ransomware leak of 115 513 personal-data sets, client executive contact lists dominate exposure, post-incident governance theater arrives after logistics disruption
japantimes.co.jp
India hosts global AI summit in New Delhi Leaders tout openness while policy fights center on compute and data residency, AI governance risks becoming cloud nationalization by licensing
aljazeera.com
Sweden outsources patient-journal infrastructure to Gulf-linked owner Regions run Cosmic while officials warn about systemic exposure
gd.se dagensmedicin.se svt.se
Sweden centralizes patient records in Cosmic while policing welfare contractors Investcorp-owned Cambio raises geopolitical and fraud-risk questions, accountability diffuses as logging expands
aftonbladet.se svt.se