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Report Blames NASA and Boeing for Botched Starliner Flight Test
Universe Today - 20 Feb 2026 01:49
Nearly two years after Boeings botched Starliner mission to the International Space Station, NASA put the mishap in the same category as the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters - and said the spacecraft would...
A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
Wired - 20 Feb 2026 01:12
The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon-without breaking the hardware.
Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs
The Register - 20 Feb 2026 14:30
Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraud...
Could one of Europe's most important wetlands really vanish? Satellites show it may happen in our lifetime
SPACE.com - 20 Feb 2026 13:00
New satellite imagery reveals that DoƱana National Park, one of Europe's most valuable wetlands, is shrinking so rapidly that it could disappear within a human lifetime.
US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content
Engadget - 20 Feb 2026 13:00
The US State Department is building a web portal, where Europeans and anyone else can see online content banned by their governments, according to Reuters. It was supposed to be launched at Munich Security Conference las...
CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug
The Register - 20 Feb 2026 12:13
Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active...
Why Cosmic Dark Matter Is Living On Borrowed Time
Universe Today - 20 Feb 2026 03:21
A plethora of newly discovered baryonic (or normal) dark matter signals the first step toward the end of dark matter theory. Or so say the authors of a new paper just accepted by the journal Physical Review D.
AI agents are fast, loose and out of control, MIT study finds
ZDNet - 20 Feb 2026 01:00
The vast majority of agentic AI systems disclose nothing about what safety testing, if any, has been conducted, and many systems have no documented way to shut down a rogue bot, a study by MIT and collaborators found.
OpenClaw Security Fears Lead Meta, Other AI Firms To Restrict Its Use
Slashdot - 20 Feb 2026 00:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last month, Jason Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. "You've likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. While cool, it is c...
Former Sony Exec Says Obama Called Him After the Big Hack to Trash The Interview
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2026 23:35
The President let it be clear that he thought it was a bad idea for Sony to greenlight a picture about killing a head of state.
Samsungs finally killing off support for these Galaxy Fit trackers
Android Authority - 20 Feb 2026 23:32
The Galaxy Wearable app is getting a One UI 8.5 theming overhaul, but it's losing support for two 2019 fitness trackers.
The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense
The Register - 20 Feb 2026 23:31
The micro-computer makers shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand opinion Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged...
8 Of The Best Kia SUVs, According To JD Power
Slash Gear - 20 Feb 2026 23:30
Some Kias score higher than you'd expect. See how the Telluride, Soul, EV6, and others perform in J.D. Power reviews this year.
James Cameron Has Entered the Paramount-Netflix-Warner Bros. War on the Side of James Cameron
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2026 23:25Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index
Slashdot - 20 Feb 2026 23:20
Goldman Sachs has launched an "S&P ex-AI" index (SPXXAI) that tracks the S&P 500 stocks not related to AI, offering investors a way to "hedge their exposure to the AI trade," reports Axios. From the repor...
A Top James Bond Director Also Made One Of The Worst Comic Book Movies Of All Time
BGR - 20 Feb 2026 23:17
Martin Campbell didn't don the infamous Alan Smithee moniker for this 2011 comic-book flop, instead owning up to his effort. Here's the story.
Apple researchers develop on-device AI agent that interacts with apps for you
9 to 5 Mac - 20 Feb 2026 23:02
Despite having just 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or surpasses the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger. Here are the details. more
9to5Mac Daily: February 20, 2026 - iPhones satellite features, more
9 to 5 Mac - 20 Feb 2026 23:00
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The MS Office and Windows 11 Pro bundle is just $45 for a couple of days
Mashable - 20 Feb 2026 23:00
Get Microsoft Office 2021 Professional and Windows 11 Pro for just $44.97 with lifetime licenses before this limited-time bundle after Feb. 22.
Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links
Slashdot - 20 Feb 2026 22:40
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS...
Ancient 'Asgard' microbe may have used oxygen long before it was plentiful on Earth, offering new clue to origins of complex life
Live Science - 20 Feb 2026 22:36
A new study suggests that ancient microbes once cast as oxygen haters may have actually learned to use the gas, offering a clue to how the first complex cells - and, eventually, all plants and animals - evolved.
Wisconsin Reverses Decision to Ban VPNs in Age-Verification Bill
CNET - 20 Feb 2026 22:35
The law would have required websites to block VPN users from accessing "harmful material."