Q&A with Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, on the game turning 10, evolving as a developer, working solo, cozy game growth, and more (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/stardew-valley-turns-10-the-big-concernedape…

Stardew Valley Turns 10: The Big ConcernedApe Interview - IGN
We sat down with Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone for a lengthy interview not about the game's beginnings, but about its journey over the last 10 years, and its future.

I'm going to hibernate for 256 years. You're welcome to join! :bear:

AMD knackt erstmals 10 Milliarden US-Dollar Quartalsumsatz
Das Jahr 2025 lief für AMD erfreulich, unter anderem mit einem Verkaufsrekord von Ryzen-CPUs. Die Aktie fällt trotzdem um über zehn Prozent.
https://www.…

Interesting article, "10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?"
https://warontherocks.com/2026/03/10-ukrainians-humbled-two-nato-battalions-when-will-nato-wake-up/?__readwiseLocation=…

10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?
Last May, NATO invited 10 Ukrainians to act as an opposing force during Hedgehog 2025, one of NATO’s largest exercises in the Baltics. The Ukrainians

For hackathon.lu, I was initially unsure what my main project would be, but I ultimately decided to focus on implementing the future GCVE BCP-10.
GCVE-BCP-10: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE
The idea is combine it with the cpe-guesser and have a registry to facilitate the interaction with the CPE values to handle vendor and product references.
#gcve

GCVE-BCP-10 : Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE
GCVE-BCP-10: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE Document ID: GCVE-BCP-10 Title: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE Status: Draft Category: Best Current Practice Updates: CPE-compatible naming and match semantics Author: GCVE.eu Intended use: Platform and product identification, applicability matching, vendor management, and synonym handling in the GCVE ecosystem Abstract This document specifies an improved platform enumeration format for GCVE. The format is intentionally…

Analysis: 10 major tech publications lost 58% of their Google traffic since early 2024, falling to a combined 65M monthly visits in January 2026; some lost 90% (Yuval Halevi/Growtika)
https://growtika.com/blog/tech-media-collapse

Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024 | Growtika
We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 63 million monthly visits.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116169909005304716
Fifteen years ago today, Amsterdam celebrated the milestone of its 100th public charging point. Today, it is celebrating its 10,000th!

How Ukraine appears in the latest Epstein files: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/how-ukraine-appears-in-the.html

Execs mock the NFL Draft's top 10: Jets go boom-bust at 2, Chiefs nab a running back https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7082310/2026/03/03/nfl-mock-draft-execs-raiders-jets-chiefs/

The word you’re looking for is „robbery“
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115836426999897261

RE: #Mastodon #SocialMedia

"Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization"
#ORCID iD use…

Wir sehen die Bombardierung Venezuelas und die Entführung des Präsidenten Maduro doch die Tagesschau zeigt jubelnde Menschen in Chile und anderen Ländern.
Stellt euch vor nach Russlands Überfall auf die Ukraine hätte die Tagesschau die jubelnden Menschen in der Krim gezeigt. Es ist immer mediales Framing und wir werden jetzt erleben wie SPD und CDU alles was geschieht bestenfalls mit Worten schlecht heißt, aber vollkommen gewähren lässt und rechtfertigt.

Ich, vor drei Tagen: »Jetzt wohnen wir schon zweieinhalb Jahre hier und ich habe die Klappbrücke noch nie offen erlebt.«
Gestern wartete ich in der ersten Reihe. #ueckermünde #vorpommern #klappbrücke

Dog lovers... prepare yourselves.
▶️ Try Not To Cry: Rescuing Shelter Dogs! (ft. Joey Graceffa)
#react

I have been maintaining a few top 10 lists for several years now, and I thought I might as well publish them. Here they are:
https://stefanritter.de/blog/top-10/

from my link log —
Removing macOS 26 Tahoe’s unwanted menu icons.
https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/01/10/removing-tahoes-unwanted-menu-icons/
saved 2026-02-02

Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons
We can avoid Apple’s heavy-handed implementation of a questionable idea.

2026 Tucson Mineral Symposium of the Friends of #Mineralogy National, in conjunction with the Mineralogical Society of America and the Tucson Gem & Mineral Society, February 14. Remote attendance is possible! 🧪⚒️ 💎
https://w…

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Ich war gestern Abend auf einem Vortrag der Bayerischen Landeszentrale für neue Medien.
Thema war die Mediennutzung in der Familie mit Fokus auf 10-14 Jährige.
Mal abgesehen, dass es mich irritiert, dass auf der Webseite wie selbstverständlich Google Maps eingebunden ist, wurde auch im Vortrag eines mittelalten weißen Mannes ohne eigene Kinder, nahezu völlig frei von Kritik über Instagram, Tiktok, etc. gesprochen, als wenn es völlig normale Plattformen wären.

Homepage der Bayerischen Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM) - Radio und TV in Bayern
Die Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM) genehmigt die privaten Hörfunk- und Fernsehangebote sowie Online-Angebote in Bayern.

Today’s Artemis II:
Integrity on its way to the Moon.
Time-lapse covering the period from 09:17:45 to 10:01:26 UTC
on 2026-04-03.
https://bsky.app/profile/s2a-systems.bsky.social/post/3milxqr5vpc2a

s2a systems (@s2a-systems.bsky.social)
Today’s Artemis II: Integrity on its way to the Moon. Time-lapse covering the period from 09:17:45 to 10:01:26 UTC on 2026-04-03.

SEN BERNIE SANDERS: We need to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, Trump is right (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-bernie-sanders-need-cap-credit-card-interest-rates-10-trump-right
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p101#a260202p101

https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs

Japan and the Octopus Trap of Modernity (file under: Takotsubo is not only a cardiac disease)
https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/2021/6/10/cgq5rildc4mxhatmak817jxn3f9bef

Genealogies of Modernity — Japan and the Octopus Trap of Modernity
What we see in Japanese modernity, according to Maruyama, is a national franchise of these “idols of the market place” through the continuous specialization and internal diversifications that multiply these groups. Takeshi Morisato on how Japan became trapped in a hyper-specialized version of mode

@… @… Thank you Lynn! Appreciate you!

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY €3.66B, above €3.62B est., expects to raise investments to €2.7B in 2026, and forecasts growing AI demand (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Putin's SHADOW FLEET caught in a STORM, – The Economist #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/putins-shadow-fleet-caught-in.html

Nielsen: CBS' Grammy broadcast averaged 14.41M viewers, down 6% from 15.4M in 2025 and a 17.09M post-pandemic high in 2024; Disney will broadcast it from 2027 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2026-gra…

TV Ratings: Grammys Draw 14.4 Million Viewers, Decline in Final Year on CBS
The audience for the awards falls by about 6 percent from 2025.

Massiver Stromausfall in Berlin dauert wohl bis Donnerstag
Zehntausende im Südwesten der Hauptstadt haben seit gestern keinen Strom – und das bei Schnee und Kälte und wohl noch tagelang.
https://www.

SAP is perhaps the antithesis of flexibility, which is why it is often used in complex administrative systems, such as those found in many energy companies. So it's good news that there is now a module available to link Enode's flexibility engine, which works with a wide range of consumer devices.

Enode x SAP: SAP has chosen Enode to enable residential flexibility within SAP Distributed Energy Resources | Enode
Energy retailers are moving from experimentation to long-term decisions about residential flexibility. Today, flexibility needs to operate as part of day-to-day business, not as a side initiative. SAP sees that shift clearly. That’s why SAP has chosen Enode to enable SAP Distributed Energy Resources, a solution supporting residential distributed energy resource (DER) flexibility within SAP environments. The partnership brings Enode’s full product capabilities into the SAP ecosystem, allow…

Leseverständnis ist stark schwindende Superkraft. Jedenfalls auf Social Media. #justthinkin

Let me know if you see me at #FOSDEM this year!

Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/most-active-fintech-inve…

Y Combinator Was By Far The Most-Active Fintech Investor in 2025, Data Shows
All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per Crunchbase data. The investors who provided all that capital included a mix of private equity and alternative investors, with venture capital firms and accelerators next in line.

@… you called it early on!

Minsk and Moscow PREPARE STRIKE? New drills near NATO borders push world to disaster's edge: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/minsk-and-moscow-prepare-strike.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/113441521436240302
Today, I learned that the new Prime Minister of the Brussels Region is the district mayor who ordered the removal of these bicycle parking facilities.

Podemos entrenar esta jauría de gatos salvajes.

:neocat_stretch_down:⁠:neocat:⁠:neocat_devil:⁠:neocat_nom_cat:⁠:neocat_evil:⁠:neocat_floof_owo:⁠
:neocat_stretch_up:

AMD reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $10.3B, Data Center revenue up 39% to $5.4B, forecasts Q1 revenue below the highest projections; AMD drops 5% after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-0…

Memo: Bloomberg Media now has 707,000 paying subscribers, reports revenue up 6% YoY, subscriptions revenue up 10%, and advertising and sponsorship revenue up 5% (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/bloomberg-media-700000-subscribers-2025/
…

Bloomberg Media Tops 700,000 Subscribers as Revenue Rises 6% in 2025
According to a memo obtained by ADWEEK, the publisher posted gains across subscriptions, advertising, and live events.

@… A fair question and I wish it were possible! Unfortunately our fiscal sponsor on Open Collective would not allow Kickstarter contributions as expenses (as Kickstarter by definition is prepayments), per the documentation:

Ouija Board with full Unicode support (including emojis)

Super Micro reports Q2 net sales up 123% to $12.7B, vs. $10.43B est., and expects Q3 net sales above estimates; SMCI jumps 5% after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/super-micro-computer-q2-2026-earnings-ai-boom-bubble-s…

Super Micro crushes estimates for Q2, offers strong guidance
The AI server company just released its fiscal Q2 results.

@… @… @… Ahhh, 11tybundle is the saddest part of the rename, I’m so sorry.

Kremlin says talks possible only in Moscow, invites Zelensky again: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/kremlin-says-talks-possible-only.html

KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/kkr-and-singtel-stake-in-stt-gdc-for-over-5-bi…

KKR and Singtel to acquire remaining stake in data center firm STT GDC for over $5 billion
The deal pegs the enterprise value at S$13.8 billion.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116167644511095804
My first day at BlueSky went well, IMO :3

@… We love to see it!!

Medvedev threatens nuclear strike, warns Zelensky as New START deadline nears: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/medvedev-threatens-nuclear-strike-warns.html

Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/database-startup…

Database Startup Supabase in Talks to Double Valuation to $10 Billion
Singapore’s GIC is in talks to lead an investment in database startup Supabase at a valuation of about $10 billion, double the level it raised at last fall, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Supabase is aiming to raise about $500 million in the fundraising round, ...

@… appreciate you Jason!

END OF THE KREMLIN'S "SHADOW FLEET" – EU blocks Russia's tankers, China & India refuse oil!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/end-of-the-kremlins-ampquotshadow.html

@… @… *some* of the Pro features are runtime services, and will require an active subscription to have access to those. For example: collaboration will require an active sub. But the snapshot of your web site will be fully exportable a…

Ukraine stalls Russian push near Hulyaipole amid heavy losses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/ukraine-stalls-russian-push-near.html

Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, vows to "pull out all the stops" to fight back after the US moved to bar Anthropic (Steven T. Dennis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… Really appreciate you Jared! 🙌

EPSTEIN and KGB?! SCANDALOUS TESTIMONY in the RELEASED EPSTEIN FILES: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/epstein-and-kgb-scandalous-testimony.html

Analysis: since the end of 2025, Polymarket users have rarely bet large sums on US strikes the next day; before the Iran strikes, 150 accounts placed such bets (Amy Fan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/upshot/…

How Anonymous Bettors Cashed In on the Iran Strike, Just Hours Before It Happened
Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about insider trading.

@… yeah, sign me up! cc @…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says initial plans to raise $15B to $20B were a "misconception"; sources say Tether's advisers have floated raising as little as $5B (Jill R Shah/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3f7f0306-4bc2-43e1-8370-ea251229e5b6…

Pinterest fires two employees who it says "wrote custom scripts" that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k670n0ydo

Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track job cuts
The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.

A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/04

Incognito Market founder Rui-Siang Lin sentenced to 30 years in crypto darknet drug marketplace case
U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools before investigators tied him to the platform through domain records and digital traces.

Galaxy Digital reports a Q4 net loss of $482M, above $282M est., driven primarily by the crypto market crash, and says its trading volumes declined ~40% QoQ (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A profile of Obsidian, a game studio Microsoft acquired in 2018, as it seeks to expedite game development and reduce costs after releasing three titles in 2025 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

An interview with Kai-Fu Lee on his startup 01.ai, which builds agentic AI tools for companies, why he thinks China will beat the US in consumer AI, and more (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5d71bb69-25e0-4425-8ac8-635b7a8abb68

Sources: banks are marketing at least $56B in investment-grade data center construction loans tied to Oracle's leases, as they seek out new buyers for the loans (Michelle Chan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/90aa74a5-b39d-4131-a138-367726cb18fb

AMD reports $390M in revenue from MI308 AI chip sales in China in Q4; CEO Lisa Su says orders were "from very early in 2025" but shipped in Q4 after US approval (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

AMD rakes in $390m from AI chip sales to China but warns of uncertainty
Company sees $100m more revenue from China as Beijing weighs rules on Nvidia, other foreign chips

Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…

Japan's Renesas to sell timing solution segment to US-based SiTime for $3bn
Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025

Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d963c6c9-3618-4d83-8efe-eccf74cd637f

Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-piv

Adobe reversed its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, stating it won't get new features but will remain available "indefinitely" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/873621/adobe-animate-maintena…

Adobe actually won’t discontinue Animate
Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate. Instead, the application will be available in maintenance mode.

Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting "ephemeral messaging tools" (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new developments in AI will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31%, CRM 6.85%, and Thomson Reuters 15.83% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/soft…

Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/03/alaffia-health-raises-55m-expand-agen…

Alaffia Health raises $55M to expand agentic AI for health plan claims operations - SiliconANGLE
Alaffia Health raises $55M to expand agentic AI for health plan claims operations - SiliconANGLE

Source: Anthropic plans an employee tender offer at a valuation of at least $350B, the same valuation discussed in the company's ongoing $20B fundraising (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/anthr…

Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T parameters (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/02…

The Top Open AI Models Are Chinese. Arcee AI Thinks That’s A Problem.
The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters, aiming to reclaim the open-weight lead from Chinese labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek.

Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…

Salesforce Tableau Chief to Leave Following Slack Executive Exit
The chief of Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization unit, Tableau, has left the company, raising some concerns on Wall Street about executive churn at the software maker.

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)

AMD hints Microsoft could launch its next-gen Xbox in 2027
AMD says it’s ready to support Microsoft launching its next-gen Xbox in 2027. The pair have partnered to work on a custom chip for the next Xbox.

Sources: Nvidia is nearing a deal to invest $20B in OpenAI as part of OpenAI's $100B funding round (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/nvidia-nears-deal-to-invest-20-billion-in-openai-round

OpenAI names Dylan Scandinaro, who worked on AGI safety at Anthropic, as the company's head of preparedness (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/openai-fills-safety-job-listed-at-555-00…

US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…

EA reports Q3 net bookings up 38% YoY to $3.05B, vs. $2.86B est., driven by strong sales of Battlefield 6, and net income of $88M, down from $293M a year ago (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ea-beats-

Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.58B, net revenue up 25% to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO up 5% after hours (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/take-two-raises-…

Take-Two raises its net bookings outlook, reaffirms November release for “Grand Theft Auto 6”
Take-Two reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday afternoon.

Match reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $878M, vs. $871M est., net income up 32% YoY to $210M, paying users down 5% to 13.8M; MTCH jumps 7% after hours (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…

Sources: Texas Instruments is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for ~$7B, a premium to Silicon Labs' market cap of $4.4B as of Tuesday (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c7b3eaa5-a650-400d-beda-ba71d44cc8e7

Microsoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launch…

Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/bitcoin-price-today.html

Bitcoin breaks below $73,000 to lowest since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes
Bitcoin fell below $73,000 on Tuesday as investors sold the asset to hedge against heightened geopolitical and economic uncertainties.

Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/skyryse…

Skyryse lands another $300M to make flying, even helicopters, simple and safe | TechCrunch
Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.

At the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-says-company-will-make-gpus-has-hired-…

Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst (Craig Chapple/PocketGamer.biz)
https://www.pocketgamer.biz/ares-interactive-raises-70m/

Ares Interactive raises $70m as it plots expansion plans and new game launch
Glu Mobile founder Niccolo de Masi’s new company Ares Interactive has raised $70 million to expand its operations and launch a new baseball game in 202...

Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/agentic-codi…

Agentic coding comes to Apple's Xcode with agents from Anthropic and OpenAI | TechCrunch
Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.

Tomorrow.io raised $175M at a $1B valuation to deploy an AI-driven LEO satellite network for weather forecasting, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj67r5yvze

Tomorrow.io raises $175 million at over $1 billion valuation to build AI-driven weather satellite network
DeepSky constellation aims to replace aging government infrastructure and close global forecasting gaps.

Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/alphabet…

Lockheed Martin to follow US federal ban on Anthropic, as government contracting attorneys say defense contractors are expected to comply with the DOD's order (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc