Tech

The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K+ users under “enhanced” Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (variety.com)
2026-2-24

Samsung's $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold works well as a smartphone, especially for entertainment, but falls short as a tablet and laptop, marred by unpredictability (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-24 Samsung

How Silicon Valley has long ignored China's looming Taiwan invasion and its chip supply impact; US officials warned Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm about China's plans (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-24 China Taiwan Apple AMD

Quantum Algorithm Beats Classical Tools On Complement Sampling Tasks (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 Algorithm Quantum

Anthropic introduces “persona selection model”, a theory to explain AI's human-like behavior, and details how AI personas form in pre-training and post-training (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-24 AI

Discord says it “ran a limited test of Persona in the UK” to verify user ages and “that test has since concluded”, distancing itself from Persona amid backlash (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-24

A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-24 AI

Texas Is About To Overtake California In Battery Storage (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 Battery California Texas

Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-24

Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-24 Facebook Instagram

A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply chain, as the company commits to buying more than 100M chips from TSMC Arizona in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-24 Apple

US Farmers Are Rejecting Multimillion-Dollar Datacenter Bids For Their Land (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24

Apple says it plans to move some production of Mac Mini to Houston from Asia later in 2026, as part of its efforts to invest $600B in the US over four years (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-24 Asia Apple

New Microsoft Gaming CEO Has 'No Tolerance For Bad AI' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 Microsoft AI

The administrator winding down Terraform Labs sues Jane Street, alleging it engaged in insider trading to profit from and ultimately hasten Terraform's collapse (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-24

Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street's Deep Anxiety About AI Future (slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 AI Wall Street

Tesla sues California's DMV to reverse a ruling that found Tesla violated the law by falsely promoting its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-24 Tesla California

How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-24 Trump Iran

A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-24 Trump Nvidia

Sources: Anthropic has lined up $5B to $6B for an employee share sale at a valuation of about $350B; outside investors will be buying up the insider shares (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-24

Trump's 'Board of Peace' Explores Stablecoin For Gaza (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 Trump

A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused (www.axios.com)
2026-2-24

OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push (slashdot.org)
2026-2-24

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially files for a US IPO after withdrawing a previous IPO last year, and a listing could take place as soon as April (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-24 IPO AI

Android mental health apps with 14.7M installs filled with security flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-24 Android

Panasonic Will No Longer Make Its Own TVs (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 Panasonic

Uber agrees to acquire SpotHero for an undisclosed sum, to offer parking reservation for events and at venues and airports; SpotHero was last valued at $290M (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-24 Uber

Spain arrests suspected hacktivists for DDoSing govt sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-24 Spain

ASML Unveils EUV Light Source Advance That Could Yield 50% More Chips By 2030 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24

IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization (slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 IBM

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