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South Korea's ex-president avoids death penalty but is jailed for life for botched attempt to bring in martial law in 2024 (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-19 Korea

Iran carries out military drills with Russia days after closing Strait of Hormuz in warning to Trump as world waits to see if the president will unleash war upon the regime (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-19 Trump Russia Iran

Taliban 'legalises' domestic violence with new laws allowing husbands to beat women - as Afghanistan descends into the dark ages (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-19 Afghanistan

Germany's army chief warns Europe will suffer 'things we cannot even imagine right now' as Putin looks to go to war with Europe - and slams 'egomaniac' Trump (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-19 Trump Putin Germany Europe

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after a Super Bowl “Search Party” ad, calling it a “perfect storm” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19

Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-19

Atlassian's founders lost ~$7.2B in wealth in 2026, behind AppLovin's three founders, amid an SaaS rout; TEAM dropped ~48% YTD, the Nasdaq 100's worst performer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 SaaS Atlassian

Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19 Uber Child Abuse

Book extract: ex-Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton recounts his role in sparking North Korea's 2014 hack, one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-19 Korea Sony

India's AI Summit: Modi orchestrated a photo op with tech and business leaders holding hands in a line, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei awkwardly refused (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

Time for the U.S. to Designate Sudan's Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-2-19 U.S. Muslim Terrorism

It Is Time To Listen To What Hamas Says in Arabic (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-2-19

The Gates Foundation says Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote at India's AI Summit after “careful consideration” amid controversy over his Epstein ties (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-19 India AI Bill Gates

Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19 India AI Entrepreneur

Russian forces in Ukraine face communications issues as SpaceX restricts Starlink access and Telegram faces a crackdown, per pro-Russian military channels (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Russia Ukraine SpaceX

Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B in building AI-related infrastructure over the next seven years, and JioHotstar plans a ChatGPT bot (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

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

The Chinese warships Australians never got to debate (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-2-19 China Australia

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

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