IBM crashes because we’re gonna YOLO a replacement for banking and credit-card back-ends, replacing billions of lines of COBOL with vibe code. Uh…
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire
IBM shares fall 12% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization (Pia Singh/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/ibm-is-the-latest-ai-casualty-…
Odesa couple faces life in prison for $30 scheme to register Starlink for Russia’s military: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/odesa-couple-faces-life-in.html
AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy. | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/ai-is-mcdonalds-that-will-be-good-bad-and-catalytic-for-civil-rights-advocacy
Media advocacy group Free Press analyzed 35 top corporate media and tech companies for their DEI goals and says 26 retreated from those goals in 2025 (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/regulatory-leg…
Just patched a long fiber link, which would've absolutely _sucked_ to get CAT.7 cable through.
The steel-armored OS2 cable is cheap and super robust/easy to work with. The LC connectors are even smaller than the hole for CAT.7 would've been.
This is nice \o/
What I want to say is: Don't be afraid of fiber for DIY networking people, it's awesome and often muuuch better than copper cable!
I also didn't have to do any annoying LSA terminations or crim…
Civil Servants Demand Impeachment of Russell Vought - Action Network
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-servants-demand-impeachment-of-russell-vought/
More USB-PD cursedness. I really need to figure out what's up with this power bank.
Laptop is an older Thinkpad with the yellow rectangle power connector. The USB-C ports are also Thunderbolt but are not able to charge the laptop (there's no PD sink functionality).
Laptop - phone via USB C-C cable: phone charges
Power bank - phone via same cable: phone charges
Power bank - laptop via same cable: power bank lights up for a second or two then shuts off and does no…
“The government’s understaffing and high case load is a problem of its own making,”
a federal judge observed.
On Feb. 18, 2026, after a 90-minute hearing,
U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino of the District of Minnesota imposed a conditional civil contempt fine upon a government attorney handling one of the hundreds of immigration related habeas corpus cases
that have overwhelmed the courts of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., since December.
She ordered Specia…