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Multiple Ecco the Dolphin games in development, new website launched #EccoTheDolphin

Multiple Ecco the Dolphin games officially in development
“Several new Ecco the Dolphin products and games” are officially in development, developer A&R Atelier announced. A&R Atelier is a studio founded in Half Moon Bay, California …

Sources: Google will start developing and making high-end Pixel phones like the Pro and Fold from scratch in Vietnam in 2026; the Pixel A remains in China (Lauly Li/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/goog…

Google to develop and make high-end phones in Vietnam this year
Move comes as Apple plans to achieve a similar milestone for iPhones in India

Very interesting, sounds like a good team,
"IBM researchers are working with the developers of the secure messaging platforms Signal and Threema to design cryptographic systems that can resist future quantum computer attacks."
https://cyberinsider.com/ibm-part…

IBM partners with Signal to develop quantum-safe messaging encryption
IBM researchers are working with Signal and Threema to design cryptographic systems that can resist future quantum computer attacks.

Considering that the US currently lacks the capability to safely land payloads on the moon, the timeline seems rather aggressive.
NASA, Department of Energy To Develop Lunar Surface Reactor By 2030 - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/

Five intriguing developments from first week of 2026 NFL free agency https://www.nfl.com/news/five-intriguing-developments-from-first-week-of-2026-nfl-free-agency

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 
— an inflection point in the race to develop ever more powerful forms of artificial intelligence
— developers have been scouring the United States for places to build the giant computing clusters needed to scale up the technology.
Located nine miles northeast of the city of Scranton, and home to about 7,500 people,
Archbald PA is facing plans to build five data center complexes across six sites, making it one of the most …

Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town
DeSmog investigation reveals how developers persuaded local officials to weaken limits on giant AI projects.

Never did code while on my commute. If you want me to work then pay for it, no freebies!
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-a…

I don't think I'll ever tire of these magic moments when a print first appears almost out of nowhere when pouring developer over it...
(The image is another one of my ancient art pieces from 2010/11, a rendered detail of the skeleton of one of the generative characters made for a collection of 100 3D printed sculptures)
Thanks to @… for being m…

During the outsourcing and offshoring craze a decade or two ago everyone hired cheap developers in India and eventually companies realized that that doesn’t work.
Now they’re trying the same with outsourcing to LLMs.
The bottleneck in software development isn’t coding.
It’s management and design.

Spotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers "have not written a single line of code since December" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spot

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI | TechCrunch
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.