Tech

Claims That AI Can Help Fix Climate Dismissed As Greenwashing (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 AI Climate

A $10 Plastic Speaker is the Most Durable Revenue Line in Indian Digital Payments (slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 India

How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets (www.wired.com)
2026-2-19

Trump Has Prepared Speech On Extraterrestrial Life (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Trump

Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Apple

Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English (restofworld.org)
2026-2-19 Facebook

A study of 12K+ EU companies finds AI adoption increases labor productivity by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run (cepr.org)
2026-2-19 AI

OPM Director Scott Kupor says tech billionaires such as Elon Musk will give talks to the US Tech Force, which aims to recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers (www.ft.com)
2026-2-19 Elon Musk

Apple's 40-day correlation to the Nasdaq 100 fell to 0.21 last week, the lowest since 2006, making it an appealing alternative to the AI-fueled volatility (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 AI Apple

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require “regular adoption” of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff (www.ft.com)
2026-2-19 AI

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 India

Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve information for at least 10,000 years (gizmodo.com)
2026-2-19 Microsoft

Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Samsung

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (www.statesman.com)
2026-2-19 AI Manufacturing

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the “For you” feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (gizmodo.com)
2026-2-19 Algorithm

EPA Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Climate

Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19

Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-19

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19

Uber Putting $100 Million into EV Charging for Robotaxis (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Uber

A US judge rules ex-Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to stop their work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19

Google's Pixel 10a Is the Same Damn Phone As the Pixel 9a (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Google

The UK proposes new rules requiring tech firms to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours or risk blocking and fines of up to 10% of global revenue (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-19

Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda (politics.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 AI

Crypto lending firm Ledn sold $188M in securitized bonds backed by bitcoin loans, making it the first deal of its kind in the market for asset-backed debt (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Bitcoin Asset

Cadence shares closed up 7.6% on Wednesday after the chip design company reported Q4 revenue up ~6% to $1.44B and adjusted EPS of $1.99, both above estimates (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-19 4Q

Sources: the US State Department is developing an online portal at “freedom.gov” to let users in Europe and elsewhere view content banned by their governments (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-19 Europe

Mark Zuckerberg Testifies During Landmark Trial On Social Media Addiction (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Social Media Zuckerberg

Google's AI Music Maker Is Coming To the Gemini App (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Google AI

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