Tech

Sources: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as 2026, and considers letting the glasses identify people with public Meta accounts (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-13 Facial Recognition

10 Everyday Activities That Secretly Alter Consciousness (listverse.com)
2026-2-13

10 “Modern” Problems with Surprising Historical Analogs (listverse.com)
2026-2-13

Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOs, a move once seen as taboo and lacking long-term commitment (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-13 IPO SpaceX

Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-13

Russia Fully Blocks WhatsApp (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-13 Russia WhatsApp

A look at Higgsfield, an AI video startup that grew to $300M ARR within 11 months, as it faces a creator backlash over aggressive and shocking marketing tactics (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-13 Startup AI

The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance 2.0, saying the model engages in unauthorized use of US copyrighted material “on a massive scale” (variety.com)
2026-2-13 AI

The suspect believed to be behind the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada made a Roblox game simulating a mall shooting; Roblox says it removed the account (www.404media.co)
2026-2-13 Canada

Anna's Archive has quietly begun releasing millions of music files from its scrape of Spotify, despite an injunction against distribution of copyrighted works (torrentfreak.com)
2026-2-13 Spotify

CIA Makes New Push To Recruit Chinese Military Officers as Informants (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-13 China

Sources: the Trump administration has shelved tech security measures against China, including data center equipment curbs, ahead of a Trump-Xi meeting in April (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-13 Trump China

Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock that would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, following backlash (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-13 Amazon

Applied Materials reports Q1 revenue down 2% YoY to $7.01B, vs. $6.86B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; AMAT jumps 12%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-13

Apple's stock dropped 5% on Thursday, its worst day since April, following FTC scrutiny of Apple News and reports about delays with Siri (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-13 Apple

A US jury finds Apple did not infringe Optis' 4G wireless technology patents, after two earlier trial verdicts Optis had won were overturned (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-13 Apple

Russia tries to block WhatsApp, Telegram in communication blockade (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-13 Russia WhatsApp

In a memo to US lawmakers, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of using distillation techniques to train the next generation of R1 and “free-ride” on leading US AI models (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-13 AI

Russia confirms it has blocked WhatsApp, citing Meta's “unwillingness to comply with Russian law”, and proposes that Russians switch to the state-owned Max app (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-13 Russia WhatsApp

IBM Plans To Triple Entry-Level Hiring in the US (slashdot.org)
2026-2-13 IBM

Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 22% YoY to $1.78B, vs. $1.84B est., transaction revenue down 37% to $983M, a net loss of $667M, vs. a $1.3B profit in Q4 2024 (decrypt.co)
2026-2-13 4Q Coinbase

Bitwarden introduces ‘Cupid Vault' for secure password sharing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-13

Didero, which provides an agentic AI layer that integrates with ERP systems to automate supply chains, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Chemistry and Headline (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-13 AI ERP

Roku reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.35B est., and an $80.5M net income, vs. a $35.5M loss in Q4 2024; ROKU jumps 9%+ after hours (www.thewrap.com)
2026-2-13 4Q

Instacart reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $992M vs. $974M est., gross transaction value up 14% to $9.85B, gives strong Q1 guidance; CART jumps 14%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-13 4Q

Microsoft: New Windows LNK spoofing issues aren't vulnerabilities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-13 Microsoft

Critical BeyondTrust RCE flaw now exploited in attacks, patch now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-13

Pinterest reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.32B, vs. $1.33B est., MAUs up 12% to 619M, and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; PINS drops 17%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-13 4Q

Airbnb reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $2.78B, vs. $2.72B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 10% to 121.9M, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-13 Airbnb 4Q

Highspot, which has raised $650M and makes AI-powered sales enablement software, plans to merge with rival Seismic; the combined company will be called Seismic (www.geekwire.com)
2026-2-13 AI

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