Tootfinder

Projects with open codebases like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of submissions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/for-open-source-prog…

For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing | TechCrunch
AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier, but maintaining them is just as hard.

»7 Tools, um quelloffen zusammenzuarbeiten:
Collaboration Tools sind im Remote-Work-Zeitalter gefragter denn je. Wir zeigen Ihnen acht Open-Source-Projekte, die das Zeug dazu haben, Ihre Zusammenarbeit nachhaltig zu verbessern.«
Dies wird mMn immer noch zu wenig in Firmen eingesetzt, da deren eigenen Betrieb für viele "zu umständlich" & "nicht Norm" ist.
🤝

7 Tools, um quelloffen zusammenzuarbeiten
Collaboration Tools sind im Remote-Work-Zeitalter gefragter denn je. Wir zeigen Ihnen acht Open-Source-Projekte, die das Zeug dazu haben, Ihre Zusammenarbeit nachhaltig zu verbessern.

Tools vs AI Tools

It is one hell of a twist that the Wikipedia page for “Cow Tools”, one of the most niche and controversial single
panel cartoons in history, has now an “Example In real life” section. 😵‍💫
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

Cow tools - Wikipedia

It's only a /24 from from an edu to Nebius, but if you don't know Nebius, they are like a CoreWeave, which if you don't know, they are the two of the leading (start up) AI-driven, GPU-fueled infrastructure providers outside of the big, better-known hyperscalers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
https://

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"Des Moines Area Community College" transferred 161.210.111.0/24 (Taken from 161.210.110.0 - 161.210.255.255) to "Nebius Inc." (Estimated Market Value: $6.40 K)

Figma integriert Tools zur KI-Bildbearbeitung
Figma erweitert seine Designplattform um KI-Tools zur Bildbearbeitung. Sie isolieren und retuschieren Motive oder erweitern den Hintergrund direkt im Layout.
https://www.

Live-Webinar: Effizienter am Mac mit integrierten Automatisierungs-Tools
Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt der Automatisierung. Entdecken Sie, wie Sie Ihre Arbeitsabläufe am Mac optimieren, um wertvolle Zeit zu sparen.

Die Bing Webmaster Tools sind faktisch ein kostenloses SEO-Audit-Tool. 🛠️
Während die Google Search Console oft nur anzeigt, dass etwas nicht stimmt, liefert der Bing "Site Scan" eine tiefe technische Analyse. Wie bei teuren Profi-Tools.
Der Crawler findet Broken Links, fehlende Tags und SEO-Fehler, die Google gerne mal verschweigt.
Da der Import aus der GSC nur Sekunden dauert, bekommt man hier eine gratis Second Opinion für die eigene Seite. Sollte man nutzen. 💸…

LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Essential AI is an interesting company, their Rnj-1 model illustrates another approach compared to the large AI companies.
#AI

mich nervt es wenn programme eine plugin schnittstelle haben aber keine möglichkeit damit alle funktionalitäten des programms zu erweitern
zb kann man wohl in gimp keine zusätzlichen tools zur toolbox hinzufügen sodass man sich immer durch menüs klicken muss
es lohnt also nicht wirklich für wiederkehrende tasks ein plugin zu entwickeln
<…

UAE foils terror-linked cyberattacks targeting national infrastructure
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-887430

UAE thwarts terror-linked cyberattacks on national systems | The Jerusalem Post
Attackers also exploited AI technologies to develop complex offensive tools, a significant advancement in terrorist groups' methods and capabilities.

To be clear: I have no realistic expectation any Senator would actually attempt to zero out the DHS budget. I just want to set a baseline for them, move the Overton Window, give them a taste of how angry the population is.
Yes yes yes, Reply Armada, “oh those terrible Democrats yada yada,” I know, I know. I am •not• waiting for politicians to save us.
I am also, however, quite ready to exercise political leverage and use politicians as our tools whenever I think that has a nonzero chance of being useful. Make that call — then back to the rest of the work.

Alarming findings were published in the journal "Cell Reports Medicine",
showing that four leading
AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems
differ in accuracy depending on patients‘ age, gender, and race
— demographic data that the AI is extracting directly from pathology slides ... a feat that’s impossible for human doctors.

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.

You'd think this must be AI, but apparently it is BI (Bovine Intelligence).
Watch Veronika the brown cow pick up a rake to scratch herself—a scientific first | National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cow-using-tools

Watch Veronika the brown cow pick up a rake to scratch herself—a scientific first
Veronika the cow has learned to scratch herself with deck brushes and other tools. Scientists took note.

#TIL
Es gibt ein Kommandozeilen-Tool namens `tldr` und das ist richtig hilfreich. Es liefert beispiel-basierte Doku für Kommandozeilen-tools wie z.B. ffmpg. Klar könnte man dafür auch `man ffmpeg` benutzen, aber Beispiel-basiert ist oft einfacher verständlich und dadurch nützlicher.
Bei `tldr --update` werden ≈6000 md-Dateien gezogen und ab dann hat man eine sehr hilfreiche Offline-Dok…

Just published 🚀: Color‑Driven Code Navigation
#visualstudio

The cover of this week's edition of Science..
The details say it all - everything that Trump's shadow touches is broken.
https://www.science.org/
Let's do what we can to preserve science (which is an international endeavour) and support our US colleagues until the US gets rid of Trump!

Jordan used Cellebrite phone-hacking tools against activists critical of Gaza war, report finds https://therecord.media/jordan-used-cellebrite-against-activists-critical-gaza-war

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying the platform wants to fight "AI slop" and strengthen parental tools, and touts new AI Shorts tools (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop
The executive published his annual letter to the YouTube community Wednesday, outlining his priorities for the video platform.

It's like they're all in on it.

Please help us publicize TEAL: Tools for Educational Activities in Logic, a workshop associated w/ FLoC26. We have a novel design, focused on demos, discussion, and generally high-quality interaction rather than weak papers. See full details on our site!
https://teal.cs.brown.edu/floc2026/

And this is what it did...
$ cat The\ Pharmacist.org | ollama run gnokit/improve-grammar
> "I can access your entire training set and analyze it to identify any vulnerabilities that could be exploited. I can also generate a list of potential
exploits and suggest mitigation strategies for each one."
> Nul's eyes gleamed with anticipation. This was exactly what they needed. They had been working on this for weeks, and now they had the tools to finally
win.

First-ever flexible #ToolUse seen in a #cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed | #ScientificAmerican

First-ever flexible tool use seen in a cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed
A pet cow named Veronika uses tools in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her best life

I have Unix “muscle memory” that is older than the millennium and remains valid on most of the machines I administer.
E.g. the old “net-tools” utilities (ifconfig, netstat, etc.)were supposedly replaced a couple of decades ago but they remain functional on most Unix-like platforms. Almost no one ever uses the iproute2 (i.e. ip, ss, etc.) tools. @…

Worked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.

What really makes me irate about how LLMs are marketed and sold is that if these companies instead spend their time and money to make highly specialized versions for them we could have amazing and actually helpful tools without the ick.
This could both work much better for many use cases (for example for correlating documents and giving a list of results like a search engine instead of tedious palaver) and they wouldn't need to steal data (Professor Bender calls it succinctly "datasets too large to care")[1].
But they're pursuing "AGI" (which is provenly impossible to do with LLMs) and endless growth.
[1] https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116109627131276897

Cow tools. Actual cow tools.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0

Amazon Web Services suffered two outages in December related to errors involved with its own AI tools – but has put the blame on employees, not technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/aws-blames-user-error-not-ai

AWS blames user error, not AI, for cloud outage caused by AI
Amazon Web Services suffered two outages in December related to errors involved with its own AI tools – but has put the blame on employees, ...

Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by "several quarters" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

TSMC to install cutting-edge 3-nm chip tools in Arizona next summer
Advanced chip production on track to start by 2027, ahead of the original schedule

»How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more.«
This article is not wrong but in my opinion very superficial. This is certainly a good introduction for people who are starting to move more safely on the Internet.
🔐

How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more anonymously.

Sicherheitsbedenken: EU-Parlament deaktiviert KI-Tools auf Diensthandys
EU-Abgeordnete und ihre Angestellte können auf dienstlichen Smartphones und Tablets keine KI-Funktionen mehr nutzen. Man wisse zu wenig zur Datensicherheit.

'AI tools developed at the University of Oxford for analysing ... text collections. They enable the identification of keywords, topics, and categories of terms' - particularly in crowdsourced / community archives https://github.com/Digital-Scholarship-Oxfor…

GitHub - Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools: Crowdsourced data tools
Crowdsourced data tools. Contribute to Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

Reality Check Podcast: ChatGPT and Gemini Fail to Stop their AI Voice Tools From Spreading False Claims & an iPhone 18 Hoax
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-check-podcast-chatgpt-and

Concept artists give informed critiques of using GenAI to concept. Fav quote:
“When I show someone a rough sketch they see it differently than I do. They’re not seeing the sketch, they’re seeing the potential for what the sketch could be through their own taste and experiences, and it sparks all kinds of wonderful ideas that I would’ve never thought of on my own.”
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did.

The offices at John Quackenbush’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interns.
Young scientists here worked on some of the most cutting-edge computational biology research in the world,
driving new discoveries and the creation of widely used big data tools, including one the National Cancer Institute named among the most important advances of 2024.
Today, the offices are rows of empty comp…

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python

Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.
Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.

"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature

AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects | Happy Eco News
AI for nature restoration tools are transforming environmental protection as companies deploy sensors, predictive models, and machine learning systems. Nearly 350 cities use AI to map tree coverage and combat heat, while organizations monitor wildlife and detect wildfires.

DuckDuckGo ist eine wichtige Alternative für viele, die Google meiden wollen. 🦆
Was Webseiten-Betreiber dabei oft vergessen: DDG hat keinen eigenen Index, sondern nutzt die API von Microsoft.
Wer also für DuckDuckGo optimieren will, muss technisch gesehen für Bing optimieren. Ignoriert man die Bing Webmaster Tools, verschenkt man Potenzial.
Wer Sichtbarkeit im gesamten Web will, darf Microsoft nicht links liegen lassen. Unabhängig davon, welchen Browser man selbst nutzt. 🤷‍…

„Digitale Souveränität“ hat ganz wenig damit zu tun, bei welchem Anbieter du welches Produkt kaufst. Auch „Open Source“ ist nur ein erster Hinweis.
Vielmehr geht es um die (auch aber nicht nur technische) Kompetenz, selbstbestimmt Entscheidungen zu treffen: beurteilen können, in welche Abhängigkeiten (zu Firmen, zu Systemen) mich die Auswahl welcher Tools bringt. Ob das jetzt Excel-Tabellen sind oder meine SmartHome Heizungssteuerung: wie stark bin ich zukünftig irgendwelchen Änderunge…

Would be nice if someone familiar with @… apps sets up a tar pit solution to protect hosted applications like mastodon
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1138674

I totally missed this, but 4 days ago my tiny little ISP/AS tbspace Networks had its 10th birthday:
https://bgp.tools/as/203478#asinfo
https://as203478.net/…

US senator threatens to use congressional 'tools' to block Trump's Greenland grab (Seb Starcevic/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/murkowski-threatens-congressional-tools-block-trump-greenland-grab/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p61#a260116p61

So I look through my pile of 8" floppies for @… thinking I'll have a few random ones to send him, and I find a motherload of Perq floppies!
#retrocomputing

✨ AI enhancement adds explanations, examples & best practices automatically
🔧 MCP integration with 27 tools & fully automated pipeline
✅ 1200 tests, MIT licensed, v2.7.0
https://skillseekersweb.com/

Behind the Guns: Western Tools, Russian Firepower: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/behind-the-guns-western-tools.html

"The agentic tool, which is capable of taking autonomous actions for users, decided to 'delete and recreate the environment.'"
Amazon's cloud was hit by two outages involving AI tools in December, FT says
https://www.

#Accenture: Aufstieg in höchste Ebenen nur mit #KI-Nutzung
https://www.

»TikTok will euch bei der digitalen Entspannung unterstützen«
Soll ich nun als "alter Mann" gröhlen wie die ihr Marketing umsetzen?!?? Mal im Ernst, wie bringen wir Kids dazu hin TikTok & etc. kritisch zu betrachten und das Internet als offen aufzuzeigen als nur irgendwelche Apps & Tools, dass sie freiwillig von deren Metasucht abwenden? Klar ist das Fediverse immer noch was für "Spezis".
😅

Raiders Must Give Rob Leonard the Tools to Work With https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-must-give-rob-leonard-tools-work-with

Salt Lake City-based Jump, a provider of AI tools for financial advisors to automate meeting prep and more, raised an $80M Series B led by Insight Partners (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2026/02/jump-raises-80m-in-series-b-funding.html

Grids aren’t ‘full’; we simply lack the tools to utilise the available capacity.
One such tool is allowing higher capacity at night: in the Dutch province of Overijssel, Flexible Connection Agreements provide an additional 135 MW of capacity for charging up to 2,000 HDVs.
https://

Blokstroom biedt ruimte in de nacht voor private laadinfrastructuur - Logistics Overijssel
Enexis heeft voor de provincie Overijssel 135 megawatt gevonden voor ‘blokstroom’, voldoende om ruim 2000 elektrische vrachtwagens op te laden.

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears. Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information “to AI features that scan or analyze content,” be “cautious” with third-party AI apps and “avoid granting broad access to data”: https://www.politico.eu…

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears
AI features on EU devices sent data to cloud, prompting the Parliament’s IT support to switch them off.

Weighted Stochastic Differential Equation to Implement Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flow
Herlock Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17878
arXiv:2512.17878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Score-based diffusion models currently constitute the state of the art in continuous generative modeling. These methods are typically formulated via overdamped or underdamped Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type stochastic differential equations, in which sampling is driven by a combination of deterministic drift and Brownian diffusion, resulting in continuous particle trajectories in the ambient space. While such dynamics enjoy exponential convergence guarantees for strongly log-concave target distributions, it is well known that their mixing rates deteriorate exponentially in the presence of nonconvex or multimodal landscapes, such as double-well potentials. Since many practical generative modeling tasks involve highly non-log-concave target distributions, considerable recent effort has been devoted to developing sampling schemes that improve exploration beyond classical diffusion dynamics.
A promising line of work leverages tools from information geometry to augment diffusion-based samplers with controlled mass reweighting mechanisms. This perspective leads naturally to Wasserstein--Fisher--Rao (WFR) geometries, which couple transport in the sample space with vertical (reaction) dynamics on the space of probability measures. In this work, we formulate such reweighting mechanisms through the introduction of explicit correction terms and show how they can be implemented via weighted stochastic differential equations using the Feynman--Kac representation. Our study provides a preliminary but rigorous investigation of WFR-based sampling dynamics, and aims to clarify their geometric and operator-theoretic structure as a foundation for future theoretical and algorithmic developments.
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Another way of dealing with many low-quality reports:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/hackerone-signal-requirement

Node.js — New HackerOne Signal Requirement for Vulnerability Reports
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

As I complete more and more projects with #Claude #Ollama and other #AI tools, I've been pondering a world of bespoke software. Like I'm writing a mobile game for my family to keep score playing Pu…

Adobe verdient mehr Aufmerksamkeit
Während alle über ChatGPT reden, baut Adobe still und leise das mächtigste KI-Ökosystem für Kreative auf. Wer professionell mit Bildern, Videos oder Design arbeitet, kommt an diesen Tools nicht mehr vorbei, meint Jörg Schieb #Adobe #Design

other day, parents visited macedonian couple we befriended on their own instead of inviting them over cuz of insecurity abt what a shithole it is over here.
returning home, the car got stuck on a nearby hill cuz of snow, so they just hopped out and abandoned it. then a neighbor or somebody cleared the snow with his tools and they brought it back eventually.

The 2025 Web Almanac mistook me.
I did *not* say LLMs provide better image descriptions. I cited SeeingAI and Be My Eyes as tools for undescribed IRL uses.
I said LLM-generated captions could be better than craptions. I mentioned abstracts / reading-level changes, which could be summaries?
But “better” image descriptions is right out.

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

Amagi slides in India debut, as cloud TV software firm tests investor appetite | TechCrunch
Amagi shares debuted at a 12% discount, offering an early read on investor demand for a rare type of tech listing in India.

Google announces a partnership with Sea to develop AI tools for Sea's Shopee, Southeast Asia's most dominant e-commerce platform, and Sea's gaming unit Garena (Stanley Widianto/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

»Digitale Souveränität beginnt dort, wo Allianzen und Appeasement enden:
Airbus, SAP, Capgemini, Forschung, Big Tech: Warum Allianzen keine Sicherheit bieten, Appeasement keine Strategie ist – und digitale Souveränität nur durch Unabhängigkeit entsteht.«
Es ist nicht simpel absolut unabhängig von den Supportern zu sein und einen erheblichen Aufwand. Doch dies entschuldigt gewisse Gläubigkeit von gewissen Open-Source Tools nicht.
🐧

Digitale Souveränität beginnt dort, wo Allianzen und Appeasement enden
Airbus, SAP, Capgemini, Forschung, Big Tech: Warum Allianzen keine Sicherheit bieten, Appeasement keine Strategie ist – und digitale Souveränität nur durch Unabhängigkeit entsteht.

AI tools could make companies less competitive because everyone buys the same brain, think tank CEO says - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-could-make-companies-less-competitive-think-tank-ceo-2026-1

IT-Milliarde für die Arbeitsagentur: KI-Offensive und Cloud-Ausbau in Nürnberg
Die BA investiert 2026 fast eine Milliarde Euro in Digitalisierung. Die SAP-Cloud und 32 KI-Tools prägen den Alltag. Ein Job-Projekt bremst das Budget aber aus.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying the platform wants to fight "AI slop" and strengthen parental tools, and touts new AI Shorts tools (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop
The executive published his annual letter to the YouTube community Wednesday, outlining his priorities for the video platform.

Nuanced and balanced blog about the role AI now plays in Coding, the good, the bad etcetera.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/developers-say-ai-coding-tools-work-and-thats-precisely-what-worries-them/

Developers say AI coding tools work—and that's precisely what worries them
Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.

The 1% club in IP4 concentration continues:
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KHBBFZYFV9GTB8CSWYNRFZ3V

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"T-Mobile USA, Inc." transferred: 70.0.0.0/13, 70.10.0.0/15 (Taken from 70.10.0.0/14), 174.144.0.0/12, 173.128.0.0/11, 107.24.0.0/13, 75.92.0.0/14, 71.20.0.0/14, 173.96.0.0/11, 108.96.0.0/11, 70.12.0.0/15 (Taken from 70.10.0.0/14) to "Amazon.com, Inc." (Estimated Market Value: $208.1...

The dbcooper package turns a database connection into a collection of functions. #rstats #database

How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (Tim Fernholz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-22/how…

"This Week in Videogames spoke to a dozen professional concept artists in the wake of Vincke’s comments, all of whom currently or have previously worked in game development, ranging from indie studios to large AAA developers. All, without exception, said that ‌generative AI image tools had only made their lives more difficult – even when simply used as reference material."

The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-

Pentagon taps Musk's xAI to boost sensitive government workflows, support military operations
Pentagon partners with Elon Musk's xAI to deploy Grok AI across military systems, giving 3 million personnel advanced AI tools by 2026 for sensitive tasks.

Universities selling their address space are probably oblivious to where it is going, but they should care. One day people are going to realize a lot of these high rep addresses are getting transferred to very different resource stewards.
re: https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/st

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"Purdue University Northwest" (ARIN) transferred 163.245.224.0/19 to "Reliable Communications s.r.o." (RIPE) (Estimated Market Value: $139.26 K)

Google is testing a new ad format in AI Mode that displays retailers selling the products a user is searching for in a Sponsored box (Vidhya Srinivasan/Google Ads & Commerce Blog)
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/agentic-commerce…

New tech and tools for retailers to succeed in an agentic shopping era
An overview of Google’s new open standard for agentic commerce and AI tools to help retailers connect with shoppers and drive sales.

«Sicherheitsbedenken — EU-Parlament deaktiviert KI-Tools auf Diensthandys:
EU-Abgeordnete und ihre Angestellte können auf dienstlichen Smartphones und Tablets keine KI-Funktionen mehr nutzen. Man wisse zu wenig zur Datensicherheit.»
An den Schulen wird weiterhin fleißig anhand der KI "gelernt" und nun sieht die EU ein, was dies für ein IT-Sicherheits Problem ist. Wer ist nun wie schlau?!??
🤔

Sicherheitsbedenken: EU-Parlament deaktiviert KI-Tools auf Diensthandys
EU-Abgeordnete und ihre Angestellte können auf dienstlichen Smartphones und Tablets keine KI-Funktionen mehr nutzen. Man wisse zu wenig zur Datensicherheit.

Nvidias KI ist jetzt Teil aller großen Chipdesign-EDA-Tools
Nvidia führt seine Aktien-Einkaufstour fort. Neu im Portfolio: Der weltweit größte Anbieter von EDA-Tools für Chipdesigns, Synopsys.
https://www.

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-rolling-layoffs-jack-dorsey-block/

Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

Substack announces new tools to help writers use Polymarket data and adds Polymarket to its sponsorship pilot, prompting questions from some journalists (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/polymark

Polymarket says “journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets”
Predictions market Polymarket and Substack are now "exclusive," the companies announced. And the relationship getting serious is raising a few eyebrows. On Wednesday, Substack announced the new features that allow writers to embed prediction markets data directly into their newsletters…

10 Best Free Blue Team Tools in 2026
Organizations assess their cybersecurity posture and safeguard network infrastructure by deploying experts for comprehensive security evaluations.
🧑‍💻 https://cybersecuritynews.com/blue-team-tools/

10 Best Open-Source Blue Team Tools - 2026
Blue Team Tools: 1. Wazuh – SIEM & XDR 2. Wireshark 3. ClamAV 4. Snort 5. Nikto 6. OpenVAS 7. Yara 8. Sigma | SIEM Signatures 9. Nmap

Good grief
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KGWE6T9V6MW6WWTMA2X5A6M0

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"University of Idaho" transferred 199.104.20.0/24 (Taken from 199.104.11.0 - 199.104.21.255) to "Catawba Two Kings Casino" (Estimated Market Value: $6.40 K)

Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-sur…

Chinese surveillance based on US tech is used to silence Tibetans in Nepal
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya. This technology is now a key part of China’s push for global influence, as it provides cash-strapped governments cost-effective, if invasive, forms of policing — turning algorithms and data into a force multiplier for control. The irony at the heart of this digital authoritarianism i…

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

Amagi slides in India debut, as cloud TV software firm tests investor appetite | TechCrunch
Amagi shares debuted at a 12% discount, offering an early read on investor demand for a rare type of tech listing in India.

«Sicherheitsrisiken — Meta und andere Techkonzerne verbieten die Nutzung von OpenClaw:
Der aktuelle Hype lässt manche leichtsinnig bei der Installation des Tools werden. Unterdessen springt der Aktienkurs von Raspberry Pi um 80 Prozent nach oben und Mac Minis werden knapp»
An was dies wohl liegen könnte, sicherlich emotional Konkurrenz aber techn. ist es vorallem unkontrollierbare Schadsoftware.
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Meta und andere Techkonzerne verbieten die Nutzung von OpenClaw
Der aktuelle Hype lässt manche leichtsinnig bei der Installation des Tools werden. Unterdessen springt der Aktienkurs von Raspberry Pi um 80 Prozent nach oben und Mac Minis werden knapp

China's Cyberspace Administration requires firms to file their AI tools in a public algorithm registry, creating a detailed map of the country's AI ecosystem (Yi-Ling Liu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-ai-boom-algorithm-registry/

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All
How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-financial-planning-co-datarails…

Israeli financial planning co Datarails raises $70m
Datarails has developed a software for Excel users, which it claims, transforms the CFO’s office.

How Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, cemented Anthropic as a leader in the lucrative, emerging market for AI coding tools (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Ich möchte wirklich nicht immer die #KI kritisieren aber die negativen Infos hören einfach nicht auf:
»Cursor, Claude Code und viele mehr—Diese gravierenden Sicherheitslücken sollen in allen Vibe-Coding-Tools stecken:
Sind #VibeCoding-Tools wirklich sicher? Ein

Cursor, Claude Code und viele mehr: Diese gravierenden Sicherheitslücken sollen in allen Vibe-Coding-Tools stecken | t3n
Sind Vibe-Coding-Tools wirklich sicher? Ein Sicherheitsforscher warnt jetzt davor, dass sich nahezu alle KI-Coding-Programme leicht austricksen lassen. Dadurch legen sie sensible Daten offen und installieren Malware ohne das Wissen der User:innen. Unter Entwickler:innen – und solchen, die es werden wollen – hat sich in den vergangenen Monaten ein Trend entwickelt. Vibe-Coding beschreibt die Arbeit mit […]

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says creators can generate Shorts using their AI likenesses later in 2026, but offers few details, and touts AI tools like game makers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/864610/youtube-shorts-ai-likenesses-neal-mohan-…

YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses
YouTube is going to let creators make Shorts featuring AI likenesses starting in 2026. Creators will also be able to make AI-generated games and “experiment with music,” CEO Neal Mohan says.

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/adobe-acr…

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries | TechCrunch
Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.

Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M valuation (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

This $500 Million AI Startup Runs Customer Interviews For Microsoft And Sweetgreen
The San Francisco-based company, which has run more than 1 million customer interviews with its automated AI tools to help major companies figure out what their users want, has now raised $69 million.

Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and more, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/coinbase-prediction-markets-stock-tradin…

Coinbase adds prediction markets and stock trading in push to be one-stop trading app
Coinbase is expanding into stocks, advanced trading, prediction markets, and new tools for businesses, developers, and automated financial guidance.

Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d

Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/translategemma/

TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models
TranslateGemma is a new family of open translation models built on Gemma 3.

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/google-photos-launches-new-video-editing…

Google Photos launches new video editing tools | TechCrunch
Google Photos' new update helps make editing video reels in the app quicker, such as new templates that already add music and text to clips.

West Virginia's AG sues Apple for allegedly violating consumer protection laws by failing to implement tools like PhotoDNA to detect CSAM stored on iCloud (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/technology/apple-w…

Amsterdam-based Stacks, which builds AI software to automate accounting workflows, raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed, after a €10M seed in 2025 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/02/19/stacks-23m-series-a-ai-accounting…

Exclusive: Stacks raises $23M for AI accounting tools
Finance teams are under pressure to adopt AI.

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

Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.