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Europa will Astronauten zum Mond senden und hat mehr Pläne
Europa liefert Technik für die Mondmissionen und hat eigene Pläne. Wann deutsche Astronauten dabei sein sollen und Europas Vorhaben auf dem Mond.
https:…

“Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter states: ‘No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.’”
https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c309pj8d8qqo

Online DTC luxury brand Quince raised a $500M Series E led by Iconiq at a $10.1B valuation; it recently launched in Canada and its revenue topped $1B in 2025 (James Manso/WWD)
https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/quince-10-1-billion-v…

EXCLUSIVE: Quince Closes $500 Million Series E at $10.1 Billion Valuation
Quince reached a $10.1 billion valuation for its $500 million series E, following 2025 revenues of over $1 billion.

RE: https://jb.heydingus.net/2026/03/11/its-not-lost-on-me.html
Reminds me a little bit of the Commodore 64 and the 1541 floppy drive having the same CPU

Have you increased shareholder value today?

The greatest triangles of the century. Or so.
Fun for geomentry/maths lovers.
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2025/10/14/10-best-triangles-of-the-21st-century-so-far/

"10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go"
#Oceans #Environment
https://

10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go
More than 10% of the world’s ocean is now protected to some degree, marking significant progress in global ocean conservation efforts, according to an Apr. 1. annoucement from the U.N. Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). However, this accomplishment comes six years behind schedule, and experts warn that efforts must pick up speed to […]

Die Stadt #Essen hat 1.394 #Straßenlaternen auf #LED-Technik umgestellt.
Das ist Teil eines Programms mit rund 13.500 Leuchten, das den

Russia Further Restricts Telegram, Escalating Internet Clampdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/world/europe/telegram-throttled-internet-russia.html

Russia Further Restricts Telegram, Escalating Internet Clampdown
The throttling of the communication app, used by more than 100 million Russians, endangers what remains of the country’s free internet.

EU-komissio tavannut vain turkisalan edustajia – järjestöt kantelivat Euroopan oikeusasiamiehelle https://animalia.fi/2026/02/10/eu-komissio-tavannut-vain-turkisalan-edustajia-jarjestot-kantelivat-euroopan-oikeusasiami…

EU-komissio tavannut vain turkisalan edustajia – järjestöt kantelivat Euroopan oikeusasiamiehelle   - Animalia
Eläinjärjestöt ovat kannelleet Euroopan oikeusasiamiehelle, sillä komissio on tavannut vain turkisalan edustajia käsitellessään turkiskieltoa. 

AfD, was wollen die eigentlich?
Antrag heute im Ratsauschuss in Bochum:
"Die Förderung für die freie Theaterszene wird in den nächsten fünf Jahren auf Null gefahren."
"...Vereine und Chöre, die sich mit
viel privatem Engagement der Heimatpflege widmen, deutlich stärker gefördert."
Noch gibt es keine Mehrheit dafür.

El Paso airport closed for 10 days for unspecified “security reasons” at 11:30pm Tuesday. All flights canceled. 10 mile airspace around the airport also closed.
#FAA #ElPaso #ELP

F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
No flights would be allowed to or from the airport for 10 days under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”

„Wieso, mir sind doch alle Weiber!“¹ – aus einem Fernsehbeitrag aus den 1960ern, in dem der Reporter einen älteren Herrn fragt, ob er denn an Weiberfastnacht auf die Straße gehen würde.
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¹ich versuch jetzt nicht, rheinische Mundart nachzubilden

For those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
https://…

The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.
Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 139,255 neurons in extraordinary detail. Then a startup turned that milestone into a story about brain…

Solid chance mark carney drove by me today in a stretch suv?
#springBreak

Russian ArBat battalion commander 'Abrek' killed in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/russian-arbat-battalion-commander-abrek.html

Hospitals are posting prices for patients. It's mostly industry using the data (Darius Tahir/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5704792/health-care-price-transparency-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p166#a260210p166

**EPA to revoke finding underpinning all climate regulations**
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/epa-revoke-endangerment-finding-climate-regulations.html

Once again, fossil energy prices are soaring due to global conflicts. Let’s save and replace another 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year by ‘orange-green’ energy, within 5 years: emergency plan by @…, the Netherlands Association for Renewable Energy.

Nieuwe gascrisis toont kwetsbaarheid: NVDE wil plan voor 10 miljard kuub minder gas - NVDE - Nederlandse Vereniging Duurzame Energie
Door de oorlog in Iran schoot de gasprijs omhoog. Dat laat opnieuw zien hoe kwetsbaar Nederland is voor internationale energiecrises. De Nederlandse Vereniging Duurzame Energie (NVDE) roept het kabinet op […]

2026 NFL Draft Big Board: Prospects 6-10 https://insidethestar.com/2026-nfl-draft-big-board-prospects-6-10

Most major book publishers lack clear rules on AI use, frustrating authors and readers and raising fears that AI-generated books will slip past editors (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/books/shy-girl-ai-publishing.html

How Authors and Readers Feel About the ‘Shy Girl’ Cancellation
Major publishing houses risk unwittingly putting out books generated with A.I. tools. Authors and readers are frustrated, nervous and grasping for solutions.

RE: https://esq.social/@SuffolkLITLab/116054463472872585
For Big Tech, “deleted” means setting deleted = false to deleted = true.

“You should be ashamed of where you work. Not just Grammarly or Superhuman or whatever comically dumb name you come up with next. Almost everyone running tech firms, most people in positions of responsibility, pretty much every C-suite type — congrats, you’re all making the world a worse place. People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next.”
https://www.moryan.com/an-open-letter-to-grammarly-and-other-plagiarists-thieves-and-slop-merchants/

Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/applied

Applied Materials forges partnerships with Micron and SK Hynix for AI memory chips
Applied Materials said on Tuesday it has partnered with memory chip companies Micron ​Technology and SK Hynix to develop next-generation chips that ‌are crucial for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

21 statt 10 Tonnen Nutzlast: Ariane 6 vor erstem Start mit vier Boostern
Fünfmal ist die Ariane 6 mit Nutzlast gestartet, nun steht ein Upgrade an: Mit vier statt zwei Boostern soll sie am Donnerstag Amazon-Satelliten befördern.

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/?mid=1#cid=3384744

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

"10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go"
#Oceans #Environment
https://

10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go
More than 10% of the world’s ocean is now protected to some degree, marking significant progress in global ocean conservation efforts, according to an Apr. 1. annoucement from the U.N. Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). However, this accomplishment comes six years behind schedule, and experts warn that efforts must pick up speed to […]

I would have expected so much more from the Olympics… they always seemed like such a moral bunch. @… https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/116056944…

Pope Leo sends 80 generators, thousands of medicines to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/pope-leo-sends-generators-thousands.html

:neko_sad:

Eine aktuelle #Studie des Forschungsinstituts für #Nutztierbiologie zeigt, dass #Nanoplastik in Zellkulturen von Rindern und Schweinen aufgenommen wird.
Bereits geringe Konzentrationen…

Studie warnt vor Mikroplastik: Krankheitsrisiko für Nutztiere und Menschen
FBN-Studie warnt vor möglichen Folgen dieser winzigen Partikel für Tiergesundheit, Fleischerzeugung und die menschliche Ernährung.

NFL Free Agent Running Backs: The Top 10 RBs Available This Offseason https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-free-agent-running-backs-top-10-rbs-available-offseason

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/health-insurance-startup-alan-reaches-e5b…

Health insurance startup Alan reaches €5B valuation | TechCrunch
French health insurance startup Alan is now valued at €5 billion — approximately $5.83 billion, up from $4.5 billion in 2024.

Iran-Krieg: GPS-Jamming am Persischen Golf erreicht neue Eskalationsstufe
Mit dem Krieg gegen den Iran hat das GPS-Jamming eine neue Stufe erreicht. Über 1650 Schiffe registrierten verfälschte Daten, was die Kollisionsgefahr erhöht.

Those Nest cameras keep videos for three hours on their backend servers even if you're not a subscriber.
How Google played a key role in recovering the video from Nancy Guthrie’s cameras
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/tech/google-video-nancy-guthrie

How Google played a key role in recovering the video from Nancy Guthrie’s cameras
A major breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case largely came down to Google’s technical expertise, a person familiar with the investigation told CNN.

Ukraine says strike on Rostov drone depot destroyed about 6,000 Russian FPV drones: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukraine-says-strike-on-rostov.html

📰 Forschung kann Leben retten oder verlängern – durch Warnungen vor #Risiken und Fortschritte in #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende und

KlimaCrew
Ich informiere über Zukunftsthemen, um Menschen vor Risiken zu warnen und Fortschritte sichtbar zu machen.

"if you were in charge of star trek, what would you do"
Episodic series in the exact style of the original 1960s Star Trek with two types of episodes only; "look at my cool mid-century furniture" and "let's visit a Nazi planet and beat everyone up".

NFL Free Agent Wide Receivers: The Top 10 WRs Available This Offseason https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-free-agent-wide-receivers-top-10-wrs-available-offseason

OpenAIs KI-Gadget kommt erst 2027 und nicht unter der Marke io
OpenAI wird sein erstes KI-Gadget erst 2027 auf den Markt bringen. Zudem wird es wegen einer Markenrechtsklage nicht unter der Marke io erscheinen.

AI cybersecurity startup Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI agents, raised ~$190M led by Accel; Google bought Mandiant for $5.4B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/kevin-mandia-raised-190-mi…

Kevin Mandia sold his cybersecurity company to Google in 2022. He has a fresh $190 million for a new venture
Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia is staying in cybersecurity after selling his prior company to Google, but now he's focused on AI.

Ukraine says no counteroffensive near Hulyaipole, debunks Russian front-line maps: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukraine-says-no-counteroffensive-near.html

Is it too much to ask to live out the rest of my life without hearing some guy in a video utter “so, let’s get into it” ever again?

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Windräder trocknen das Land aus und führen zu #Dürren“.
#Windkraftanlagen

Fakten statt Furcht: 8 Mythen der Windenergie-Gegner entlarvt
Windräder machen krank? Vögel in Gefahr? Entdecke den Faktencheck zu allen gängigen Vorurteilen und diskutiere künftig auf Augenhöhe.

JavaScript frameworks are planned obsolescence for software

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/uzbekistans-uzum-va…

Uzbekistan's Uzum valuation leaps over 50% in seven months to $2.3B | TechCrunch
Uzum now reaches 20 million users and processes $11B in payments as it expands its e-commerce and fintech ecosystem across Uzbekistan.

Facebook wird bunter: Meta AI animiert Profilbilder und Posts
Facebook führt KI-Animationen für Profilbilder und Posts ein, um die Plattform für jüngere Nutzer attraktiver zu machen. Der Rollout erfolgt schrittweise.

Intercepted call reveals Russian soldiers shot civilians near Pokrovsk, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/intercepted-call-reveals-russian-soldiers.html

Say what you will but AI has the douchbag developer persona down pat.
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html…

YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to a select group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists to fight AI impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/youtube-deepfake-detection-journalists-politicians…

YouTube expands deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists
AI tools are making it easier to create convincing videos of real people.

As a former SXSW speaker I highly recommend you don’t attend.
Instead loudly mock them in public whenever you can, for the reason alone that they don’t move the conference out of Texas.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: #Balkonkraftwerk -

Analyse: So sehr hinken die deutschen Autokonzerne hinterher
Für die Autoindustrie war 2025 vielerorts ein Jahr zum Vergessen. Deutsche Hersteller hatten schwer zu kämpfen. Eine Studie zeigt, wie schlecht es lief.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kcarruthers/116059008870036290
Almost afraid to share this given the climate but it’s important. Big emphasis is on *RARE* (as in 200 deaths in millions of lives saved). This is not some reason to not get vaccinated.

AI networking equipment startup Eridu emerges from stealth and raised a $200M Series A led by Socratic, John Doerr, and more, taking its total funding to $230M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/ai-network-start…

AI network startup Eridu emerges from stealth with hefty $200M Series A | TechCrunch
Unlike a vibe-coded product built by a college dropout, Eridu's co-founder, Drew Perkins, has been inventing networking tech since the dawn of the internet.

TIL a LLM-based simulation of a specific person (like Grammarly does without asking) is called a “sloppelgänger”
(Source: https://bsky.app/profile/lifewinning.com/post/3mgqaymhkf227)

❗️"10 ways to turn on a blocked STARLINK": Russians are desperate #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ampquot-ways-to-turn-on.html

Kommentar: Metaversum war gestern, nun kommt die Meta-Vision
Meta hat sein Horizon OS umgekrempelt, lässt das unbeliebte Horizon Worlds nun weg. Stattdessen sucht man mächtig Inspiration – ausgerechnet bei der Vision Pro.

@… Hey Lenz,
Is there a repository somewhere where I can report issues with Hetzner’s OpenAPI spec?
This is the issue, by the way, in case there isn’t and you can forward it to the correct folks:
***
As far as I can tell, the generateHetznerCloudClient(opts: PlatformaticClientOptions): Promise<HetznerCloud> function’s opts parameter is…

hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client generated from the official specification using Massimo.

HSBC and Standard Chartered obtain the first stablecoin licenses in Hong Kong, beating 34 other applicants; they are expected to issue stablecoins in H2 2026 (Kiuyan Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Pour out a quicksort today in honor of the late Tony Hoare.

„Macrohard“: Elon Musk kündigt gemeinsames Projekt von xAI und Tesla an
xAIs Macrohard-Projekt und Teslas KI-Agent „Digital Optimus“ sollen zu einem intelligenten KI-System in Echtzeit verschmelzen, mit Grok als zentralem Navigator.

What Fabio said…
(If you see the antisemitic Zionist meme accounts Fabio is talking about – yes, they’re about as antisemitic as you can get as they conflate being Jewish with supporting Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian people – please report them for antisemitism. Good rule of thumb to remember: Zionism is – and always has been – antisemitic. Let’s make sure we implement a zero tolerance policy on the fediverse for genocide deniers and antisemitic Zionists.)

Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.eu)
@hydra0179 https://factually.co/fact-checks/military/israel-thermal-weapons-gaza-evaporated-palestinians-mk-84-217fc9You abhorrent propaganda asset polluting the Web with dumb memes, don’t you feel...

France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-f…

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch
France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

Imagine you had the blueprints for all car motors ever made. Some are joke blueprints or bad photocopies or missing sections. Some use metric units, some use imperial, and often it’s not specified. There’s any number of cylinders. Various cooling approaches. Different basic materials.
Now you make a new motor by taking the average of all these blueprints.
That’s how LLMs work.

Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing smartphone models starting March 16, citing the rising costs of components such as high-speed storage (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/03/10/oneplus-oppo-price-hikes-market-conditions/

OnePlus and Oppo will raise prices for existing smartphones starting next week
In the midst of frankly insane market conditions, Oppo and OnePlus have confirmed plans to raise prices of existing smartphones...

Samsung’s app is called “SmartThings”. Doesn’t show up when searching for “Samsung”.
It’s infuriating how user-hostile this is.

Filing: Microsoft files an amicus brief in support of Anthropic and advocates for a temporary restraining order to block the DOD's supply chain risk designation (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/microsoft-says-c…

Microsoft says court should temporarily block Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic
Microsoft threw its support behind Anthropic and advocated for a temporary restraining order to the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation.

"Darknet Diaries Deutsch": Hieu - vom Darknet zum Datendealer Teil 1
Ein junger vietnamesischer Hacker will online Geld verdienen und landet im Darknet. Dort findet er einen globalen Daten-Schwarzmarkt.

It’s like if you could only reach the Google website by going to another website called “index fun” or something

After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the "classic" search experience instead of the newer AI-powered "Ask Photos" option (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/goog

Google gives in to users' complaints over AI-powered 'Ask Photos' search feature | TechCrunch
The option appears on the Google Photos Search screen and lets users pick which experience they want.

Studie: KI macht Arbeit nicht leichter, sondern intensiver
Eine neue Studie hat in einem US-Tech-Unternehmen die Folgen des KI-Einsatzes untersucht. Die Produktivität stieg deutlich an – allerdings warnen die Forscher.

For example, by Bosch Dishwasher has an app called “Home Connect”, which doesn’t show up when you search the phone for “Bosch”

Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

ChatGPT führt Werbung in den USA ein
OpenAI testet Werbung auf dem US-Markt. Das Unternehmen verspricht eine strikte Trennung von Anzeigen und KI-Antworten und die Einhaltung des Datenschutzes.
https://www.

When I'm president, I'll sign an executive order that any device that requires an app to operate must have a large, high-contrast label on it that states the name of the app

Nach Datenabgriff: Coupang sabotiert Ermittlungen, US-Politik mischt sich ein
Coupang ist eigentlich nur in Südkorea tätig, aber in den USA gelistet. Dort sucht der Onlinehändler Unterstützung gegen Ermittlungen zu einem Datenabgriff.

Nitra, which offers a platform powered by AI agents to manage medical practices, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $205M (Catherina Gioino/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/tim-hwang-nitra-funding-ai-healthcare-platform/

This Harvard dropout took a company public before 30. Now he’s raising $205M to fix the business side of medicine
Tim Hwang, who's also a former Obama campaign staffer, now has his sights set on a $10 billion valuation, and the numbers suggest he might not be bluffing.

YouTube Music: Lyrics verschwinden bei einigen Nutzern hinter Paywall
Google experimentiert damit, Songtexte in YouTube Music nur noch zahlenden Premium-Nutzern anzuzeigen. Unklar ist, ob diese Idee eine Zukunft hat.

Survey of 6,698 people across six EU countries: around 84% said they don't trust US tech companies with their personal data; 93% don't trust Chinese companies (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/8-in-10-europeans-dont-…

8 in 10 Europeans don’t trust US, Chinese firms with data
Europe is rolling out measures to keep data local and reduce reliance on foreign tech.

The CIA says it recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and plans to build "AI co-workers" into all of its analytic platforms (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/cia-ai-intelligence-…

A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the "default AI" is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents arrive (Olivia Moore/Andreessen Horowitz)
https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-6/

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition
Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.

Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operating income, above €639.1M est. (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…

Paris-based online corporate event booking marketplace Naboo raised a $70M Series B led by Lightspeed with participation from Notion Capital, ISAI, and Ternel (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/02/10/naboo-raises-70m-from-lightspe…

NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

This Startup’s Clever Way To Cut Health Costs Helped It Hit A $1.4 Billion Valuation
Garner Health uses data to identify the country’s best doctors based on quality and cost, then gives its customers’ employees financial incentives to go to them — which can save 12% on healthcare costs.

Sources: Salesforce plans a record debt sale of up to $25B to fund its share buybacks; the company announced a $50B stock buyback program in February (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/salesforce-plans…

In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet browser to make purchases on behalf of users from password-protected Amazon accounts (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/amaz…

IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M (Kaamil Ahmed/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-develop

Cisco reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $15.35B, vs. $15.12B est., and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS only in line with estimates; CSCO drops 7% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/cisco-csco-q2-earnings-report-2026.html

Cisco's stock drops 7% on mediocre forecast even as earnings and revenue top estimates
Cisco reported revenue growth in the quarter of close to 10%, topping analysts' estimates.

Tel Aviv-based Backslash Security, which safeguards enterprise software development from vibe coding risks, raised a $19M Series A, taking total funding to $27M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/10/backsl…

Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/rede…

Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30 sources; a source says Codex had $1B in annualized revenue by January's end (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-codex-race-claude-code/

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark combining its societal impacts, red team, and economic research teams (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Anthropic is launching a new think tank amid Pentagon blacklist fight
Anthropic is shaking up its C-suite just after filing a lawsuit against the government. Its new think tank, the Anthropic Institute, will be led by Jack Clark.

Samsung says it sent the first commercial HBM4 shipments to customers, as it seeks to supply Nvidia and compete with memory rivals like SK Hynix and Micron (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Sources: Amazon, Google, and others plan to skirt Trump's $100K H-1B fee by finding workers in categories that don't include the fee, like existing H-1B holders (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was "north of $400M", up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/664249e7-e8d5-4425-b397-ad3ed590b305