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A look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/op…

Microsoft's Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 Years
https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-glass-chip-holds-terabytes-of-data-for-10000-years-2000723455

"What Mozilla leadership has continually demonstrated for the last several years is that they not only fail to understand the values of those who believe in and use the product, but they also have no intention of figuring out a non-parasitic financial basis for the organization to operate."
https://blo…

50 years ago tonight, the #JerryGarcia band in #berkeley, with former family stone drummer greg errico subbing for ron tutt, his 2nd gig with garcia, after a legion of mary show in june. audience tape:

"Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records"
#China #India #Energy

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

In #Knysna, Südafrika, drohen in wenigen Tagen die #Wasserhähne trocken zu bleiben.
Der #Akkerkloof-Damm ist nur noch zu 15 Prozent gefüllt. Jahrzehntelange Versäumnisse bei

Knysna has days of water left after years of ‘long-term operational and management failures’
Unless there’s a significant downpour in Knysna, residents’ taps will run dry within days. An intergovernmental team is looking at urgent interventions, but the crisis has been brewing for years.

This is not a unique story. I saw this happen to a friend of mine in the Upper Fillmore 20 years ago; I've read this story repeatedly. Perhaps it's time to look at more than just asking landlords to move more quickly? A host of options come to mind: A fast track lane for permits, a revolving fund for financial assistance, and requirements on PG&E on the incentive side; perhaps eminent domain into small sites for a stick?
3 years after fire, tenants long to return to I…

3 years after fire, tenants long to return to Inner Sunset ‘spaghetti paradise’ apartment
Tenants of Inner Sunset apartments were warned it would take a long time to return. It’s taking a really, really long time.

Was listening to NIN's Year Zero album last night and it feels like Trent released it 20 years too early.
Also, KMFDM's WWIII was 23 years too early. So much stuff out of the GWB administration era was crystal clear at the time, but Obama/Biden convinced centrists & the media that everything was fixed and we didn't need to actually worry about accountability and then helped to expand the police state. 8 years of "don't worry about it", then the shock of T…

Now officially shopping for an organization, ideally in Canada but absolutely out of US jurisdiction (Europe OK), to provide Web & DNS support. We have a few mostly-dormant WordPress blogs and static sites, a bunch of identity-supporting DNS records, and that's about it. Nothing very high-traffic, should be an easy ask. Would prefer something that demonstrates resilience and stability by having been around a few years.

Can't sleep so I'm naturally browsing the Internet about old tech. This Sony Walkman from 1995 could very well be the ur-gadget for translucent plastics, predating the original iMac by 3 years.
But! The Sony Whoopee predates it by a year, although I think this one was aimed at kids.

The really classic Greenlandic band is Sume, there was a wonderful documentary about them a couple of years ago called The sound of a revolution (tilgængelig på Filmstriben i Danmark) - really worth checking out..
#greenland alt-rock band Atsinnermiut and their self-titled album. It’s not online, but you can buy a copy here. https://atlanticmusicshop.gl/en/rock-213/atsinnermiut-p4135
Lots of other bands’ albums are available from the same company, have a look!

"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…

“…he stole my frog that I had for the frog jumping competition” is wild new lore that my partner (18 years in, btw) just casually and unironically dropped on me today

7 years ago, I got a room full of people in Sheffield to sing the red flag, o tannenbaum and o christmas tree simultaneously, while I played with the chords in @… (they all have the same tune)
More info here:

From Bill McKibben
The tsunami of tech spilling from China’s factories has changed the country’s energy landscape—and its physical one, too. For decades China’s development was synonymous with coal, which produced choking air pollution and massive carbon emissions, still greater than those of all other developed nations combined. Now, solar panels carpet deserts and the high, sunstruck plateau of Tibet, and wind turbines up to 300m tall guard coastlines and hilltops

The Crucial Years | Bill McKibben | Substack
Working on Winning the Climate Fight. Click to read The Crucial Years, by Bill McKibben, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/banned-for-years-dangerous-pesticides-persist-in-nigerian-farming/

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming
The sun rises over lush farm fields of on the outskirts of Lagos. For more than 20 years, a farmer named Joe has tilled the land, coaxing life from the earth and reaping bountiful harvests. But here, beneath the surface of this idyllic scene, lies a complex web of challenges — chief among them, the […]

For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water.
But new research from Saarland University reveals that this
long-standing explanation is wrong.
Instead, the slipperiness comes from the subtle interaction of molecular dipoles between ice and surfaces like shoes or skis.
These microscopic electrical forces disorder the crystal structure of ice,
creating a thin liquid layer even at temperatures near abs…

The real reason ice is slippery, revealed after 200 years
For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water. But new research from Saarland University reveals that this long-standing explanation is wrong. Instead, the slipperiness comes from the subtle interaction of molecular dipoles between ice and surfaces like shoes or skis. These microscopic electrical forces disorder the crystal structure of ice, creating a thin liquid layer even at temperatures near absolute zero. The discovery overturns n…

One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Mšrquez
https://ift.tt/5nAxtaX
updated: Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57amfull name / name of organization: MELOW: The Society for…
via Input 4 RELCFP htt…

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga
The deal would end a years-long saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

I'm rewatching Firefly (on Disney ).
The CGI is obviously lacking modern lighting techniques and often feels soft, the compositing has clipped highlights due to the lack of a modern linear and color-managed workflow. But that's to be expected. The show came out more than 20 years ago!
What matters more is the story and its vibe. I remember it as one of the most beloved sci-fi shows back then, in good company with

Reads a TODO with 8 !'s which is 25 years old.

AP obtains documents showing Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez has been on DEA's radar for years (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/delcy-rodriguez-donald-trump-venezuela-drugs-maduro-70ffbe17378fe0fa9b7f12a40e07b2f3
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p31#a260117p31

David Eugene Edwards' legendary band 16 Horsepower reunite for a 2026 European tour and one US festival
For the first time in over 20 years, the original 3 members David Eugene Edwards, Jean-Yves Tola, and Pascal Humbert will be playing together (with Chuck French, the guitarist from David EE’s band Wovenhand)
https://wovenhandband.com/n…

During the pandemic, I spent over a year in my evenings livestreaming #Wikipedia editing out on #Twitch ! 🤣😱 As we celebrate #Wikipedia25 today, I reflected back on the almost 22 years that I'v…

Just listened to the current episode of @… and heard @… you'd like to attend 40C3, would be awesome to have you there!
We've been running the Open Source Firmware assembly for a handful of years now, will happily welc…

I hate how rapidly Intel EOL's CPUs.
Like, my office workstation has a pair of Skylake-SP's (Xeon Scalable Gold 6144) which were launched in Q3 17 and hit end of support in December 2023. That's only six years.
And Vtune 2024.x is the last version that supports it. I have to pin an old version of VTune to be able to do profiling now.
I know it's getting on in years now, but it's still a pretty decent processor (CPUMark per-core performance competitive wi…

"La production d'électricité Š partir du charbon a diminué Š la fois en Chine et en Inde en 2025, la première baisse simultanée en un demi-siècle, après que chaque pays ait ajouté des quantités record d'énergie propre."
https://www.

Will Indiana complete an epic turnaround? Hoosiers could join '97 Marlins, 2008 Celtics and 2010 Auburn Tigers

https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/ind

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga
The deal would end a years-long saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

This guy made the best counterfeit US cash the Secret Service had seen in 25 years. The article has a nice short documentary interviewing him. Yes, he shares some of his methods.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/counterfeit-money-actually-works-according-204204316…

How counterfeit money actually works, according to a former forger
Jeff Turner counterfeited over $1 million in US currency. He forged the 1996-series $100 bill and later the 2013 "blue note." He was indicted on federal...

Ramadan in Gaza: fasting among tents and rubble
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/02/18/ramadan-in-gaza-two-years/

Here's the song/idea that Boots based his upcoming movie 'I Love Boosters' on.
https://youtu.be/geY-ydeYb4M
This record (Pick a Bigger Weapon) came out in 2006- this year is its 20th anniversary. So cool that now, 20 years later, Boots gets this movie out. You can hear the inspiration her…

Did you know that #PEP425 ("Compatibility Tags for Built Distributions") said:
> Why isn’t there a . in the Python version number?
>
> CPython has lasted 20 years without a 3-digit major release. This should continue for some time. Other implementations may use _ as a delimiter, since both - and . delimit the surrounding filename.
This didn't age well.
#Python

Jackery is making solar power actually beautiful. At CES, they unveiled solar roof tiles, a home battery system, and even a Solar Gazebo with 2 kW of panels that generates 10 kWh daily.
The gazebo runs $12-15K and pairs with battery storage for backup power. It's not utility-scale, but it's the kind of creative design that could make clean energy irresistible to everyday consumers.

Jackery Brings Creativity & Design To Solar & Energy Storage - CleanTechnica
While walking the floor at CES, Jackery attracted my attention. Jackery started as a portable battery power company 14 years ago. There are many competitors in that space now offering high-quality products. Increasingly, they blur the line between portable battery storage and home storage, with solar-integrated scalable home batteries that can be taken with you when you need them. Jackery’s new HomePower 3600 Plus is a great example.

Almost exactly 2 years ago when it was below -16°C.
This was a real cool experience - literally.
But I'm just so glad that I went there. I think, this waterfall isn't frozen like that so often. So I was just really lucky to be at the right time at the right spot.
And now - enjoy your weekend 😉
#nature

These prophets of economic doom are worried about another collapse
Dean Baker has earned a reputation for predicting economic catastrophe,
and he tries to follow his own advice.

-- After the economist warned of a stock bubble in the late 1990s, he rebalanced his investments to reduce exposure to the market.
-- Several years later, he became concerned that soaring home values would fall to earth, so he and his wife sold their condo in Washington.

⚠️He was rig…

These prophets of economic doom are worried about another collapse
The current investment boom is triggering déjà vu for some economists and traders who successfully predicted past economic crashes.

The Spectator has 113K subscribers, a record, print is its fastest-growing type of subscription, and it is offering its subscription service to external clients (Freddie Sayers/The Spectator)
https://spectator.com/article/the-spectators-record-subscriber-numbers/

The Spectator’s record subscriber numbers
Something remarkable is happening at the world’s oldest weekly magazine. After years of relatively flat subscriber numbers, The Spectator has surged past its Covid-era peak and now has more paying subscribers than at any point in its 198-year history. Today’s ABC circulation figures show that, while most of our competitors have been on a downward trajectory

I have been trying for YEARS to have my printer print on Linux and it has always felt like a headache and I stopped before it worked.
Today, having no other choices, I plugged it in my #Fedora Silverblue 43. A pop-up asked me for my admin creds. I inserted it. VoilŠ. The printer works and I had nothing to do for it to work. That's amazing 😻 Whoever fixed this and automated this: you are…

Ramadan in Gaza: fasting among tents and rubble
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/02/18/ramadan-in-gaza-two-years/

Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the "code red"; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-organizational-p…

How OpenAI’s Organizational Problems Hurt ChatGPT
Over the past year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ...

https://dafilms.com/program/1746-visegrad-visions-25-years-25-films?utm_source=newsletter-int&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=visegrad_visions

Visegrad Visions: 25 Years, 25 Films - dafilms.com
A program celebrating 25 years of the International Visegrad Fund

Endangered marmots make comeback on Vancouver Island
CBC reports that efforts by conservation groups to restore Vancouver Island marmots – a separate species endemic to the island that was near extinction twenty years ago – have rebounded to more than 400 animals.
https://www.

British Columbia - CBC News
Stay on top of British Columbia with the latest in news, weather, sports and interviews.

In a world with kings, our only agency is to beg “please, sir, be kind.”
#apple #BigTech

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure.

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

IETF@40
Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait
Elizabeth Alker features specially recorded concert performances of music from home and abroad to reflect 250 years of American Independence.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pm62

Amazon Threat Intelligence observed sustained targeting of global infrastructure between 2021-2025, with particular focus on the energy sector, by Russian state-sponsored threat actors.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/

Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure | Amazon Web Services
As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the primary initial access vector, while vulnerability exploitation activity declined. This tactical adaptation enables the same […]

Many years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.
The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.
By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.
https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880

Like #OCTRANSPO itself, the travel planner is not working. I have been living at my current location for over five years so I KNOW there is a bus just across the street. Just wanted to confirm the start times for tomorrow and then how badly it figured out the transfer point.
Failed in Vivaldi, failed in Chrome so it isn't browser related. Firefox it just barfed.

The often mentioned "But China and India are still building new coal power plants" - true - doesn't mean that the amount of electricity they generate from coal goes up. Actually, it went down last year, and the amount of coal used probably went down faster thanks to the increased efficiency of the fleet.

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

Learn fundamentals, not frameworks
https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/learn-fundamentals-not-frameworks

'I Didn’t Know What to Do': Louisiana Woman Sentenced to Life for Desperately Feeding Her Infant Cow Milk After Hurricane Katrina Denied Parole
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/02/18/louisiana-mom-convicted-of-murdering-infant-by-feeding-him-cows-milk-after-hurricane-katrina-denied-parole-after-spending-18-years-in-prison/

Raise my taxes without telling me you’re raising my taxes with illegal tariffs… ( prices have gone up in Vancouver, Canada as well but now many things are cheaper eg coffee gear in Canada for the first time in what 20 years because of the illegal USA tariffs)
From: @…

Ok, so I have this HP-server in my garage that I've had for years.
I decided to plug it in, add drives and connect the iLO port.
Ofcourse, I have forgotten the iLO password - and I dont have a monitor that I can use to reset it via the BIOS.
I do remember this vulnerability from a couple of years ago, that where I could get the password (or change it) for the Administrator user with a curl post request.
But I can't find it.
Help

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled (Dakin Campbell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fermi-america-amazon-tenant-t…

Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge
"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said.

To celebrate Wikipedia's 25 years (today!), I'm reading the article on the Nuremberg trials.
No reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

Nuremberg trials - Wikipedia

So, now that Orange Trump is sabre rattling about invading and militarily taking Greenland from Denmark we ought to remember the Satyandra's adivice: That those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it.
So let's remember some history...
The news is that Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and other European nations are starting to build up defense forces on Greenland and in the waters around it.
About 20 years ago the US participated in naval war games with variou…

Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels

Eleven organizations just won a combined $5.9M for solutions that are actually changing lives.
The 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize winners are tackling everything from AI diagnostics to eco-brick production. Since 2008, this prize has impacted over 411 million people through innovations in health, water, energy, and climate action.

Zayed Sustainability Prize Honours Global Pioneers Advancing Progress - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. US$5.9M awarded to 11 organisations and high schools from the UAE, Brazil, Canada, Nepal, Switzerland, Uganda and across six sustainability categories From AI-enabled diagnostics to Cooling-as-a-Service, this year’s winners deliver locally adapted innovations that empower millions In 18 years, the ... [continued]

Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne, who I always thought of as one of the more dogmatically right-wing columnists in Canadian media back when I lived there 20 years ago, delivers one of the most lucid and comprehensive analyses of Trump and his so-called administration I have seen.
The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border

The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
A view from our neighbor

Found a real-world difference between Claude Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5 today. As an experiment, I posed a question to it that I had gotten wrong a couple years ago. The question requires knowledge of TLS protocol details and thinking through their implications. Sonnet 4.5 caught the trap immediately (faster than I did back when I had the idea), Haiku 4.5 missed it, even when explicitly asked to think about the details of the TLS protocol.
So, yeah, it's not just differences in abstr…

Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein coverage (Julie K. Brown/The Epstein Files)
https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/eight-years-of-jeffrey-epstein-coverage
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p6#a260215p6

Years ago, I started saying "have a great day" and "I love you" every morning to my kids when sending them off to preschool or school. I did it because I had a realization there's a possibility, however remote, this morning could be the last time I say something to them, and I wanted it to be something good.
I can't imagine the heartache the parents feel who sent their kids off to school, preschool, or even college, to never see them again.

I guess no-one should ever buy Apple gift cards. https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Just a few months ago, AI coding was described as an overblown “auto-complete”, auto-complete has been around for functions and classes and what not since…I don’t know, years ? imagine if PR were rejected because the developed had used auto-complete to help him/her write a piece of code, or worst, a bug fix? I fully understand that no humans should be tasked to review spam PR & spam automated “contributions” but if a contribution is “generated” by Cla…

Sad day for this F1 fan... It was an amazing value for the few years that I had it.

I have worked for them for something like 20 years, but it wasn't in a single stretch, and I know for a fact they don't recognize all of it. I'm tempted to go just to see what they consider my number of years of service.

I read this fascinating thread while listening to Qobuz and by sheer coincidence, this track came on and it seems horribly appropriate:
#IfYouTolerateThisYourChildrenWillBeNext Manic Street Preachers on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/track/55341288
https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/116075306722957554
@… - The Russians cannot be trusted. At best the Russians will buy time, and then have another go.
When will European governments call a spade a spade and really push to disconnect from Russian oil and gas? If that means buying it from the US interim so be it. But then really push hard for energy and military security.
Russia is NOT going away. Nor is its hatred of Europe which is why the've been waging war on us in myriad ways for the last 20 years.
4/end
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/alexei-navalny-poisoning-death-russia-frog-toxin

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that renamed itself in the Metaverse craze less than five years ago, is reducing its Metaverse activity by 10% and laying off some 1500 employees.
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-reportedly-laying-off-over-10…

I'm somewhat proud of this. A few years ago I bought this trailer, specifically choosing the width because it could carry a typical snowblower. This is how I load a snowblower onto the trailer, all by myself, with no need to run the snowblower up a ramp.
https://vimeo.com/1165003436

Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and closing at $198.79 on Feb. 13 (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/amazon-just-matched-its-longest-losin…

Amazon just matched its longest losing streak in 20 years
Its giant capex expectations are haunting the stock.

A look at long-running BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, which reaches 2M listeners a week, as Misha Glenny replaces original host Melvyn Bragg, who has retired (Nicholas Quah/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/in-our-time-bbc-podcast-new-host-interview.…

Life After Melvyn Bragg: ‘In Our Time’ Enters a New Era
After 28 years and over 1,000 episodes, Melvyn Bragg is leaving his popular BBC podcast ‘In Our Time.’ His replacement, Misha Glenny is hoping you’ll stay.

"Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions in the U.K.—but a loophole from Britain's smog years is fueling the problem"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #WoodBurner

Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions in the U.K.—but a loophole from Britain's smog years is fueling the problem
Wood-burning stoves are booming in the UK, a cozy response to high energy prices and cost of living pressures. But this comes with a hidden cost.

Oh look, tax cheats. #epstein

Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M MAUs and 31M paid users, and expects to IPO in the next "couple of years" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/canva-gets-to-4b-i…

Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises | TechCrunch
The creative company's monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 20 years of the Amaryllis Quartet
In this birthday concert, chamber music classics by Beethoven and Brahms are performed alongside a new work by the Swiss oboist, composer and conductor Heinz Holliger.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r463

this still sounds so incredibly miraculous, even 25 years after its official release with the correct date etc. can't fathom how hard this must've hit when it came out in the early '70s. @…

Now the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/…

Over the years I have written a lot of code. Most of my stuff is deep down networking or kernel stuff - users rarely see it.
But sometimes I have to do a user interface. I'm not good at it. But it is amazing how much better I am than so many who produce commercial tools and websites.
I usually back my user input fields with a layer that puts input into a canonical form and then validates it.
That step to create a canonical form is important - it catches bad input err…

Barely a year ago, the moon was “a distraction” to Elon Musk,
the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX then fixated on his ludicrously ambitious project to build a self-sustaining city on Mars within 20 years.
Why bother returning to the orbiting chunk of rock humanity conquered half a century ago, he reasoned,
when the greater prize of the red planet lay tantalizingly in reach for his company’s mighty Starship rockets?
Fast forward to February 2026, and the world’s …

40 years after first playing Frogger on my Atari 2600, I only just discovered that you can stay on a log or a turtle as it wraps around the screen. I’d assumed for over four decades that you’d die if you hit the side of the screen.
#frogger #atari2600

"Britain’s 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees #Environment

Britain's 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests | Happy Eco News
Britain's largest seed processing center opened in Cheshire to produce seeds for climate-resilient forests. The facility processes four tonnes of seeds annually and can store them for up to 20 years.

Malaysia lost 20% of its coral reefs in three years https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/malaysia-lost-20-of-its-coral-reefs-in-three-years/

Malaysia lost 20% of its coral reefs in three years
Malaysia’s coral reefs are shrinking at a pace that is hard to ignore. According to the latest national survey by Reef Check Malaysia, about one-fifth of the country’s coral cover has been lost since 2022, a decline compressed into just three years. What had been gradual erosion now looks more like a slide. The 2025 […]

The Trump administration has increasingly deported people
– including refugees
– to countries with which they have little or no connection,
often placing their lives in danger.
For years, Bhutan had refused to repatriate Bhutanese refugees,
and no public repatriation agreement between the two countries exists,
according to Aisa Villarosa, an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, also involved in
ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation tie…

Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Anderson Cooper has decided to pass on a renewal offer with CBS and leave 60 Minutes after almost 20 years with the newsmagazine show (Lachlan Cartwright/Breaker)
https://www.breakermedia.com/p/scoop-anderson-cooper-to-depart-60-minutes

🔎 SCOOP: Anderson Cooper To Depart 60 Minutes
Legendary Newsman Will Focus on CNN And Family

A US court sentences Ramil Ventura Palafox, CEO of Praetorian Group, to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K people (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/389760/bitcoin-ponzi-20-years

Lionsgate has sold its South Asian and Southeast Asian streaming operation Lionsgate Play to Rohit Jain, the executive who built the service over eight years (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/lionsgate-play-streaming-…

Lionsgate Sells Asian Streaming Service Lionsgate Play to Rohit Jain
Lionsgate sells streaming service Lionsgate Play across South Asia and Southeast Asia to Rohit Jain, who led the platform for eight years.

Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb

iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/robot…

Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
iRobot Corp. filed for bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co., its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong Co.

The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market
and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies,
according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
The inquiry by the congressional watchdog was requested nearly two years ago by top members of the Senate
in the wake of an investigation about the 2…

The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds
Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about defective breathing machines and never ordered a recall.

Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/13/apple-shares-ios-26-adoption-stats/

Apple Reveals How Many iPhones Are Running iOS 26
Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions. These...

Axios' Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen reflect upon their 20 years as media entrepreneurs together and how the media landscape changed since Politico's 2007 launch (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/politico-founders-axios-media-vandehei-allen

Behind the Curtain: 20 years of media revolution
We alone didn't start this fire. But we surely lit or fanned it — and then had front-row seats to witness the blaze.

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/10/terraform-s-do-kwon-s…

Terra Creator Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
The Terraform Labs co-founder pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud in August.

OpenAI strikes a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy 750 MW of computing capacity from Cerebras over three years; sources: the deal is worth more than $10B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-fo…

Nvidia and Eli Lilly plan to invest $1B over five years in a new Silicon Valley-based AI drug laboratory, aiming to boost the pharmaceutical industry's AI use (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12…

Gary Shapiro plans to step down as CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the owner and producer of annual CES events in Las Vegas, after 35 years (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/cta-ceo-gary-shapiro-ste…

Gary Shapiro Stepping Down as CTA CEO After More Than 35 Years
Gary Shapiro is exiting his role as CEO of CTA after more than 35 years at the helm. Kinsey Fabrizio will take over the CEO role effective May 1.

JPMorgan exec Naveen Mallela, global co-head of blockchain division Kinexys, steps down after 11 years at the bank; Kinexys handled $5B transactions per day (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-1…

On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/ten-years/