Tech

Bayer Agrees To $7.25 Billion Proposed Settlement Over Thousands of Roundup Cancer Lawsuits (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust (www.ft.com)
2026-2-18

Tesla agrees to stop using the term “autopilot” to market its electric vehicles in California to avoid a 30-day suspension by the state's DMV (www.sfchronicle.com)
2026-2-18 Tesla California

YouTube appears to be suffering a widespread outage starting at ~7:45pm ET, with feeds, Shorts, and homepage inaccessible, based on 300K+ Downdetector reports (9to5google.com)
2026-2-18 YouTube

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Model Brings 'Much-Improved Coding Skills', Upgraded Free Tier (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft $80B+ total to run its models on their servers through 2029, plus an additional $100B for training costs (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-18 Google Amazon Microsoft

Apple Is Reportedly Planning To Launch AI-Powered Glasses, a Pendant, and AirPods (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 AI Apple

Discord Rival Maxes Out Hosting Capacity As Players Flee Age-Verification Crackdown (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M+, just eight months after launch (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 AI

Amazon shares close up 1.2%, snapping a nine-day slide that wiped out $450B+ in market valuation over concerns about Amazon's plan to spend $200B in 2026 capex (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-18 Amazon

Filing: Nvidia unloaded 1.1M Arm shares, worth about $140M based on Arm's closing price on Tuesday, sometime in Q4, bringing Nvidia's stake to zero (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 4Q Nvidia

NPR's Radio Host David Greene Says Google's NotebookLM Tool Stole His Voice (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 Google

Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 Linux

Spain orders NordVPN, ProtonVPN to block LaLiga piracy sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Spain

Google signs a power purchase agreement with Ormat to supply up to 150 MW of geothermal energy to its Nevada data centers through NV Energy starting in 2028 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Google Energy

Spain orders NordVPN and ProtonVPN to block LaLiga stream piracy (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Spain

Quantum computing company Infleqtion closed at $15.59 in its trading debut, up ~9% from its opening price of $14.25, after merging with a Michael Klein-led SPAC (www.barrons.com)
2026-2-18 Quantum

KDE Plasma 6.6 Released (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Palo Alto Networks reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $2.6B, vs. $2.58B est., and projects Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates; PANW drops 7%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-18

Sources: Western Digital plans to raise $3.09B by selling a Sandisk stake at $535-$555/share, a 9.4% discount to Tuesday's close; the offering is oversubscribed (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Western Digital

Most VMware Users Still 'Actively Reducing Their VMware Footprint,' Survey Finds (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 VMware

Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B+ valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-18 Startup AI

Meta commits to buy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; source: Meta's in-house AI chip strategy has suffered technical challenges (www.ft.com)
2026-2-18 AI Nvidia

US Lawyers Fire Up Privacy Class Action Accusing Lenovo of Bulk Data Transfers To China (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 China Lenovo

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

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

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