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Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the "latest AI breakthroughs and updates" in Gemini, Android, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/google-io-2026-date/

Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20
Following the interactive puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2026 is taking place May 19-20...

1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: #GenAI

Open Source and GenAI?

And cue “Swiss neutrality” (privilege cowardice complicity) in 3… 2… @… https://hcommons.social/@adachika192/116087612441385859

Volumetrisches 3D-Druckverfahren ermöglicht schnelles und präzises Drucken
Ein neues, volumetrisches 3D-Druckverfahren baut Objekte komplett auf, und das sehr schnell: Ein millimetergroßes Objekt entsteht in weniger als einer Sekunde.

"We also found that the evidence presented for examples of climate benefit, regardless of AI type, tend to be weak whether from companies or organisations like the IEA. The potential benefits are overstated, in surprising and significant ways."
(Original title: NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax)
https://

NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax
A new report on AI greenwashing, analysing the rhetoric and evidence behind the idea big tech will solve climate change

SBU strikes chemical factory used for explosives production deep inside Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/sbu-strikes-chemical-factory-used.html

I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more:
Meow~ :neocat_scream_stare:

I should start requiring post samples from anyone replying to vet them

Big tech is failing domestic abuse victim-survivors
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/19/big-tech-domestic-abuse-victim-survivors/

angela merkel ist die einzige SPDlerin die Ich respektiere

Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman are barred from future attendance after Justice Department files revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to DEF CON.
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/02/def

DEF CON bans hackers, technologists named in Epstein documents
Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman are barred from future attendance after Justice Department files revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to DEF CON.

Sony sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining Netflix, Paramount, WBD, and Disney in condemning the model's AI-generated copyright infringement (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/sony-seedance-protest-1236666951/

Sony Joins Studio Protest Against Seedance 2.0 Infringement
Sony has joined in the studios' protest against infringement on Seedance 2.0, citing 'Breaking Bad' and 'Spider-Verse' AI clips circulating online.

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
by Mark Graham
https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/81797

Ricardo Mendes
18 February 2026 🔖 https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/ - Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. by Mark Graham Preserving The Web Is...

The Trump administration is increasingly trying to criminalize observing ICE (Meg Anderson/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/18/nx-s1-5699708/ice-observers-impeding-obstructing-interfering
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p135#a260218p135

on my blog!
one page of async Rust
https://dotat.at/@/2026-02-16-async.html
what is the least boilerplate needed to make a minimal async runtime?

White House economic adviser says Fed researchers should be punished
Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to Donald Trump, on Wednesday
assailed a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finding that U.S. companies shoulder most of the costs of tariffs,
-- calling for the central bank to punish the researchers behind the work, which he characterized as an “embarrassment.”

“What they’ve done is they put out a conclusion, which has created a lot of news, that…

White House economic adviser says Fed researchers should be punished
One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers assailed Fed research into the administration’s tariffs policies, saying the authors deserved to be punished.

Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography
Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. […] The aes-js/pyaes maintainer, on the other hand, has taken a more… cavalier approach.
🔓 https://…

Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography
Two popular AES libraries (aes-js and pyaes) provide dangerous default IVs that lead to key/IV reuse vulnerabilities affecting thousands of projects. One maintainer dismissed the issue, while strongSwan’s maintainer exemplified proper security response by comprehensively fixing the vulnerability in their VPN management tool.

"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.
https://www.

Maybe America Needs Some New Cities
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.

@… @… @… well, yeah — shit.

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/a-st

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app | TechCrunch
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

Countries for which genocide is a deal breaker:
Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain
Countries for which genocide is not a deal breaker:
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany (2nd largest arms dealer of the genocide behind the US; historic fan of genocides), Greece, Israel (our good friends who are carrying out the genocide), Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, L…

Eurovision Song Contest 2026 - Wikipedia

RE: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/
Ketan Joshi, who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence …

Russian, Belarusian athletes to compete under national flags at 2026 Winter Paralympics: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/russian-belarusian-athletes-to-compete.html

Microsoft: 50 Milliarden US-Dollar für den KI-Ausbau im globalen Süden
Microsoft warnt vor einer sich vergrößernden digitalen Kluft und will bis 2030 fünfzig Milliarden US-Dollar in den Ausbau von KI im globalen Süden investieren.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116092491198574746
science forbid I make a joke in a shitpost and people start getting at each other’s throats in the replies
for the love of Carl Sagan’s turtleneck, grow up

:neocat_think:

Ukraine needs $15 billion of funding to shield against Russia's 2026 record terror waves: Kyiv has found only $584 million so far - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/19/ukraine-needs-15-billion-of-funding-to-shield-against-russias-2026-record-terror-waves-kyiv-has-found-only-584-million-so-far/

We are screwed
Jay Bhattacharya, a top Trump administration health official and an outspoken critic of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to the coronavirus pandemic,
will lead the CDC on an acting basis, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe personnel moves.

Bhattacharya, who will continue his role as director of the National Institutes of Health, replaces Jim O’Neill, who had served as the CDC’s acting directo…

White House taps Jay Bhattacharya, CDC critic, to lead agency for now
The co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which rebuked CDC’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, will oversee the nation’s leading public health agency.

Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that artificial intelligence (AI) assistants that support web browsing or URL fetching capabilities can be turned into stealthy command-and-control (C2) relays, a technique that could allow attackers to blend into legitimate enterprise communications and evade detection.
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Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies
Researchers show AI assistants can act as stealth C2 proxies, enabling malware communication, evasion, and runtime attack automation.

The 'Enigma': Why JD Vance Befuddles the World (Nahal Toosi/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/02/17/jd-vance-ready-to-run-the-world-00785096
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p136#a260218p136

Interesting, RAG system combining Docling document processing with ChromaDB vector storage to power openclaw https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/interesting-rag-system-combining-docling

@… maybe something with a diamond ok it needs work but there is something there

Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/openai-funding-o…

Hey, have you heard the UK is entering the Furby Organ guy in the Genocide Song Contest… how amusing is that?

VR-Laufband Omni One wird offizielles Meta-Quest-Zubehör
Das VR-Laufband Omni One wird künftig Meta Quest unterstützen. Am hohen Anschaffungspreis dürfte sich wenig ändern.
https://www.

Found an edge case with Walmart self-checkout, to start the checkout you need to scan an item, however they sell items without a barcode (e.g. jalapeños), so it’s possible that you have only items that you can’t scan.
This is how capitalism will collapse.

Russia and Ukraine resume U.S.-mediated talks in Geneva: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/russia-and-ukraine-resume-usmediated.html

Coca-Cola sued by US agency over work event that excluded men
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/19/coca-cola-work-discrimination-lawsuit-men-women-only-event

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-…

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership | TechCrunch
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.

„Recht auf Reparatur“: Verbraucherschützer fordern Nachbesserungen
Die Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinie zum Recht auf Reparatur durch das Bundesjustizministerium stößt auf Kritik bei Verbraucherschützern. Sie fordern Änderungen.

'If you stop, you die' — Inside Ukraine's last fight for Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/if-you-stop-you-die.html

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-t…

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW | TechCrunch
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.

Trump family says U.S. dollar needs an upgrade, and they can do it
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/trump-eric-don-jr-cryptocurrency-world-liberty-financial.html

Confused about this artwork/book case stand

Ukrainian special forces destroy Iskander missile depot in occupied Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukrainian-special-forces-destroy-iskander.html

Trump signs order to promote the production of weedkiller hated by MAHA
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/trump-executive-order-weedkiller-hated-by-maha.html

Cadence shares closed up 7.6% on Wednesday after the chip design company reported Q4 revenue up ~6% to $1.44B and adjusted EPS of $1.99, both above estimates (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/cadence-design-systems-stock-earnings-ai-chip.h…

Cadence Design Systems shares pop on earnings beat, custom chip optimism
CEO Anirudh Devgan said he expects the trend of companies making their own custom chips to accelerate.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116093031199752230
Don’t get left behind in having your confidential emails sloppified

Ukraine’s Air Force denies reports of foreign pilots flying F-16s over Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukraines-air-force-denies-reports.html

Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/figma-anthropic-ai-code-designs.html

Figma partners with Anthropic to turn AI-generated code into editable designs
Figma has been caught in the software stock sell-off that has sent names like Salesforce, ServiceNow and Intuit plummeting.

‘Love That Stormy Detail’: Trump Floated Through a Parade as a Jaw-Dropping Spectacle, and One Hilarious Detail Revives a Chapter He Forgets
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/02/18/trump-floated-through-a-parade-as-a-jaw-dropping-spectacle-and-one-wildly-shocking-detail-has-viewers-zooming-in/

If LLMs are so great why do we still have cancer and why isn’t there a theory of everything

Kremlin’s insatiable ambitions: only PRESSURE can stop Russia | In Focus: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/kremlins-insatiable-ambitions-only-pressure.html

Render, which is positioning itself as an alternative to Salesforce-owned Heroku, raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation, says 4.5M developers use its tools (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/render-raises-100-million-at-1point5-billio…

Cloud startup Render raises funding at $1.5 billion valuation as AI-built apps boom
Render is one of the beneficiaries of growing competition in the cloud computing world spurred by the booming demand for artificial intelligence.

Curious, it’s much more likely that children get hurt, abused or indoctrinated at home or commuting to school or in school than on the Internet, yet no one is banning homes, commutes or schools.
But everyone is eager to cut off children’s access to the Internet.

Winter has grounded Ukraine's interceptor drones, gutting Kyiv's air defense: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/winter-has-grounded-ukraines-interceptor.html

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/snapchat-launches-creator-subscription-in-the-u-s/…

Snapchat launches creator subscription in the U.S. | TechCrunch
Snapchat will let creators set their monthly subscription price.

Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/ai-data-viruses-biosecurity

AI's big biosecurity blind spot
Once high-risk biological data hits the open web, it can't be recalled.

DeepState: Defense of Myrnohrad nears end as Russian forces push toward Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/deepstate-defense-of-myrnohrad-nears.html

CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/cftc-prediction-markets-mike-selig

U.S. commission fights states on prediction markets: "We will see you in court"
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets.

Ukrainian military to train Germany’s Bundeswehr in drones and battlefield apps: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukrainian-military-to-train-germanys.html

Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/18/ios-26-4-carplay-support/

iOS 26.4 Brings CarPlay Support for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
With iOS 26.4, CarPlay users will be able to use third-party chatbots with CarPlay. AI services like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT will be accessible...

Kremlin threatens to deploy navy if Europe seizes more Russian shadow fleet vessels: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/kremlin-threatens-to-deploy-navy.html

Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/18/efficient-computer-r…

Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end - SiliconANGLE
Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end - SiliconANGLE

ORBÁN IN PANIC! Hungary and Slovakia desperately hunt Putin oil routes around Ukraine!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/orbn-in-panic-hungary-and.html

Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands. (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/wordpress-co…

WordPress.com adds an AI Assistant that can edit, adjust styles, create images, and more | TechCrunch
The WordPress AI assistant doesn't need precisely tailored prompts, either.

Russian 'Rubikon' drone operator defects to Ukraine after witnessing civilian killing: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/russian-rubikon-drone-operator-defects.html

Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/mistral-ai-buys-k…

Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions | TechCrunch
Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

Ukrainian forces hit Russian Ka-27 helicopter in Crimea, strike three UAV control centers: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukrainian-forces-hit-russian-ka.html

Audible launches an "immersion reading" feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/audi

Audible's new 'Read & Listen' feature syncs your Kindle ebooks with audiobooks | TechCrunch
The feature will require customers to buy both versions of the title, but at a discounted price.

Court sets $4.6 million bail for Ukrainian ex-minister in biggest graft case of Zelensky era: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/court-sets-million-bail-for.html

London-based Fyld, which makes AI tools to assist infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, raised a $41M Series B led by Energy Impact Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/17/ai-field…

AI field operations startup FYLD raises $41M to help build large-scale infrastructure - SiliconANGLE
AI field operations startup FYLD raises $41M to help build large-scale infrastructure - SiliconANGLE

Ex-CIA director David Petraeus outlines conditions that could force Russia to halt the war: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/excia-director-david-petraeus-outlines.html

The UK proposes new rules requiring tech firms to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours or risk blocking and fines of up to 10% of global revenue (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/f

LASERS against RUSSIAN DRONES – "Sunray" system protects Ukrainian skies | Front News: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/lasers-against-russian-drones-ampquotsunrayampquot.html

Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M accounts are in English (Hazel Gandhi/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/facebook-creator-monetization-indonesia/

Creators are cashing in on a “Facebook renaissance”
And Indonesian creators are leading the charge.

WHERE ARE OUR FLAMINGOS? 🚀 Why no missile storm on Russia? – Truth about AFU "surgical strikes"!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/where-are-our-flamingos-why.html

Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation (Kurt Schussler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The largest oil refinery in southern Russia is ON FIRE #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/the-largest-oil-refinery-in.html

Crypto lending firm Ledn sold $188M in securitized bonds backed by bitcoin loans, making it the first deal of its kind in the market for asset-backed debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/crypto-…

🇸🇰 Fico: Slovakia cannot give up CHEAP Russian oil #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/fico-slovakia-cannot-give-up.html

NEW ROUND of negotiations: will they bring us closer to a CEASEFIRE? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/new-round-of-negotiations-will.html

A US judge rules ex-Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to stop their work (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple's 40-day correlation to the Nasdaq 100 fell to 0.21 last week, the lowest since 2006, making it an appealing alternative to the AI-fueled volatility (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/dylan-patels-semia…

Dylan Patel’s SemiAnalysis Mulls Raising Venture Fund
SemiAnalysis, the top chip and infrastructure research firm founded by Dylan Patel, is considering raising money to invest in startups, according to someone with direct knowledge of the discussions. The talks are in the early stages, and the firm does not yet have a target, but it could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The move to raise a venture capital fund would formalize

Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised an $80M Series B led by Iconiq at an $800M post-money valuation (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software…

Exclusive: AI observability startup raises $80M at an $800M valuation
ICONIQ led the new Series B

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/business/technol

Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle raises $30M for Austin AI startup
Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle’s Austin startup Circuit raised $30 million in one of Texas’ largest angel rounds to address manufacturing labor shortages.

Some private software companies including McAfee released earnings early to reassure investors worried about an AI-linked selloff, dubbed the "SaaSpocalypse" (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sports-focused prediction market Novig raises a $75M Series B led by Pantera Capital at a $500M valuation; Novig is commission-free for retail traders (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/18/sports-prediction-markets-novi…

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, and others to advance its world models focused on robotics and scientific discovery (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/ai-pion…

Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin (Pierre Paulden/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-…

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

OPM Director Scott Kupor says tech billionaires such as Elon Musk will give talks to the US Tech Force, which aims to recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7691a233-953b-450e-aefc-f7678ddca6e1

Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require "regular adoption" of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ac672f97-a603-4c56-afa3-4a5273d45674

Accenture combats AI refuseniks by linking promotions to log-ins
Consulting firms use ‘carrot and stick’ with some senior staff less willing to use technology than junior colleagues

Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve information for at least 10,000 years (Gayoung Lee/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-glass-chip-holds-terabytes-of-d…

Microsoft's Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 Years
"This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation."

Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers like Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, raised $70M led by StepStone to expand into gaming, sports, and music (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Sources: Apple is ramping up work on wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw (Danilo Masoni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/raspberry-pi-soars-40-c…