Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches
BeauHD / slashdot - Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global "AI kill switch" that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser's AI features. Phoronix reports: Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image…
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Bungie Confirms That Cheaters in Marathon Will be “Permabanned” When Caught, “No Second Chances”
David Carcasole / wccftech - Bungie's upcoming first-person PvEvP extraction shooter, Marathon, will be out on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S in a little more than a week from the time of this writing, and as you might expect, there has been a lot of communication and marketing from th…
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IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization
msmash / slashdot - IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an es…
- Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims (2)
- Developer reaction: COBOL community responds (1)
- Market panic: IBM shares tumble (6)
- Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble (2)
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Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims
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Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
Simon Willison / simonwillison - Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AIReally interesting case-study from Andreas Kling on advanced, sophisticated use of coding agents for ambitious coding projects with critical code. After a few years hoping Swift's platform support outside of the Appl…
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Former Apple Employees Just Released A Weather App Replacement That Doesn't Suck
bgr - The former Apple developers who created Dark Sky have just released a new weather app, and it's already winning over fans of the original app.
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Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…
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Anthropic released Claude Code Security as research preview
Erin / testingcatalog - What's new? Anthropic introduced Claude Code Security for security teams and maintainers to spot code gaps; it uses Claude Opus 4.6 with layered checks and patch proposals;
- Developer ecosystem — Claude expands into tools: compilers, IDEs, PowerPoint (7)
- Market reaction — Traders dump cybersecurity stocks after Anthropic demo (4)
- Pentagon friction — Defense confronts Anthropic over safeguards and military use (2)
- Security risks — Vulnerability scanning raises misuse and real-world exploit concerns (2)
Developer ecosystem — Claude expands into tools: compilers, IDEs, PowerPoint
Market reaction — Traders dump cybersecurity stocks after Anthropic demo
Pentagon friction — Defense confronts Anthropic over safeguards and military use
Security risks — Vulnerability scanning raises misuse and real-world exploit concerns
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AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
Jessica Lyons / theregister - 4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowl…
- Developer-tool supply-chain sabotage prompts security alarms (5)
- Ecosystem fallout: bans, scams, 'Claws' debates, and creators (8)
- OTHER (1)
- Raspberry Pi meme-run fueled by OpenClaw chatter (3)
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Developer-tool supply-chain sabotage prompts security alarms
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Google Pixel 10a Preview
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Google graciously offered to try and ship me a Pixel 10a here in Mexico, so I'm hoping to review this new handset soon.The post Google Pixel 10a Preview appeared first on Thurrott.com.
Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 2:21 pm / permalink 19478 / 4 stories in 14 days
Chrome just fixed some of its biggest daily annoyances
digitaltrends - Chrome adds split view, PDF annotations, and Google Drive saving to help you work faster directly in the browser. The post Chrome just fixed some of its biggest daily annoyances appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Coinbase’s Base moves away from Optimism’s 'OP stack' in major tech shift
Margaux Nijkerk / coindesk - Base launched in 2023 and quickly became one of the most widely used Ethereum layer-2 networks.
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Microsoft releases KB5077241 Update preview with new features for Windows 11 users
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders signed up to the Release Preview Channel. The release of the KB5077241 update brings Windows 11 up to builds 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 and includes a number of important changes and – im…
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Dutch defense chief claims F-35 could be "jailbroken like an iPhone" to bypass US approval
techspot - In an interview with NR Nieuwsradio, Tuinman was asked if the F-35's software could be altered by European forces without the United States' consent should they lose the US as an ally – a prospect that has been repeatedly raised as tensions between the co…
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Google I/O 2026 leans into AI, here’s what it means for you
digitaltrends - Google locked in I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 and it’s already framing the event around Gemini and AI tooling. Here’s what’s confirmed, what’s missing, and how to plan what to watch.The post Google I/O 2026 leans into AI, here’s what it means for you appeare…
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Launches With 1M Context Window, Opus-Level Coding Performance
iclarified - Anthropic has officially released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a major update to its AI model that reportedly outperforms its predecessor in coding and agentic tasks. The release brings significant upgrades to computer use capabilities and introduces a massive cont…
- Anthropic faces ethical, defense, and governance scrutiny over Claude (4)
- Community demos, explainers, and user projects around Claude (1)
- Sonnet 4.6: 1M‑token context and upgraded coding (7)
- Sonnet's $3 pricing threatens Opus-class models and competition (3)
Anthropic faces ethical, defense, and governance scrutiny over Claude
Community demos, explainers, and user projects around Claude
Sonnet 4.6: 1M‑token context and upgraded coding
Sonnet's $3 pricing threatens Opus-class models and competition
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WordPress’s new AI assistant will let users edit their sites with prompts
Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Starting on Tuesday, WordPress users can edit their websites using the new AI assistant built into the platform's site editor and media library, TechCrunch reports. The AI has a sidebar in the WordPress site editor where users can ask it to edit and trans…
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Nintendo's Virtual Boy app is now available to download
Matt Tate / engadget - Nintendo’s Virtual Boy app is now available to download on Switch and Switch 2 as part of its Nintendo Classics offering. You’ll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership to access the launch titles, and unlike Nintendo’s other ret…
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Anthropic debuts Sonnet 4.6, a highly capable creative and coding AI model
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC upgraded its Claude Sonnet model to version 4.6 today, adding stronger computer-use skills, long-context reasoning, agent planning and improved performance for knowledge work and design. The company said it brings the coveted 1 million token…
- Benchmarks and pricing: Sonnet matches Opus performance (3)
- Other: personality, rollout notes, and community reactions (1)
- Sonnet 4.6 launch: features and 1M-token context (5)
- Stronger computer-use: coding, forms, and multi-tab browsing (3)
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Benchmarks and pricing: Sonnet matches Opus performance
Other: personality, rollout notes, and community reactions
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Cisco builds its own VMware hypervisor alternative, release imminent
Erik van Klinken / techzine - Cisco is introducing a hypervisor for running its own applications. NFVIS-for-UC is intended to offer an alternative for organizations that are virtualizing their telephone systems but do not want to purchase the expensive VMware Cloud Foundation. For yea…
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iOS 26 Adoption Reaches 74% on Recent iPhones, 66% Overall [Chart]
iclarified - Apple has updated its developer support page with new adoption statistics, revealing that iOS 26 is now installed on 74 percent of iPhones introduced in the last four years. Apple hasn't shared updated install figures since the public release last Septemb…
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