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3001.

Microsoft is bringing a built-in network speed test to Windows 11 (theverge.com)

2026-02-18 | by Emma Roth | get Network Speed Test → | tags: ability, access, check

3002.

Lenovo denies allegations of transferring data to China — class action lawsuit alleges company uses trackers to expose American behavioral data to ‘foreign adversaries’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-18 | by Jowi Morales | get Lenovo Tracker → | tags: china, concern, countries

3003.

Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-18 | get Facebook → | tags: facebook, hearing, internal

3004.

Ken Watanabe didn’t think a kabuki movie would work (theverge.com)

2026-02-18 | by Andrew Webster | get Kabuki film → | tags: actors, experience, film

3005.

Save $600 on this RTX 5080-powered Alienware gaming PC, down to its best price in months — just $2,399.99 for 4K-capable rig equipped with a 24-core Intel CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-18 | by Ben Stockton | get Alienware → | tags: alienware, deals, gaming

3006.

Hallucinogen DMT an effective antidepressant in small clinical trial (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-18 | get Neurotransmitter → | tags: depression, dose, effects

3007.

Are Elon Musk’s Mars plans finally coming back down to Earth? (theverge.com)

2026-02-18 | by Georgina Torbet | get SpaceX → | tags: building, mars, moon

3008.

Why Olympic Choreographer Benoît Richaud Went Viral Just for Changing Jackets (wired.com)

2026-02-18 | by Daniele Polidoro | get Jackets → | tags: choreography, coaching, experience

3009.

Call of Duty advert banned for trivialising sexual violence (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-02-18 | tags: clothes, clothes shoes, female

3010.

$1,000 bought an RTX 5080 in November 2025, now it only buys an RTX 5070 Ti — report shows 15% average global price hike across Nvidia, AMD & Intel GPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-18 | by Hassam Nasir | get RTX 5080 → | tags: average, price, rtx rtx

3011.

Telegram channels expose rapid weaponization of SmarterMail flaws (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-02-18 | get SmarterMail flaw → | tags: access, attackers, email

3012.

Meta will deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs in production, with Vera to follow — company sees perf-per-watt improvements of up to 2X in some CPU workloads (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-18 | by Jeffrey Kampman | get Nvidia Grace → | tags: grace, memory, meta

3013.

Ford's upcoming $30,000 EV truck leans on efficiency instead of a massive battery pack (techspot.com)

2026-02-18 | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: abandons, abandons compromises, advanced

3014.

A Mini Version of the Viral Opal Nugget Ice Maker Is Coming. We Got a First Look at KBIS (cnet.com)

2026-02-18 | by See Full Bio | get Opal Nugget → | tags: maker, mini, nugget

3015.

The Rise of RentAHuman, the Marketplace Where Bots Put People to Work (wired.com)

2026-02-18 | by Kyle Macneill | get RoboHuman → | tags: agents, liteplo, model

3016.

The internet’s favorite design shop is closing. Its founder reflects on what went wrong (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-18 | get Etsy → | tags: act optimism, announced, announced close

3017.

Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream (technologyreview.com)

2026-02-18 | by Jessica Klein | get Blockchain → | tags: decentralized, network, responsible

3018.

How Two Zoomers Created RentAHuman, the First Marketplace for Bots to Hire Humans (wired.com)

2026-02-18 | by Kyle Macneill | get RentAHuman → | tags: agents, liteplo, model

3019.

Palo Alto Networks slumps 7% as third-quarter profit guidance falls short (cnbc.com)

2026-02-18 | by Samantha Subin | get Firewall → | tags: billion, cents, cybersecurity

3020.

Meta signs major Nvidia deal to power AI data centers with Blackwell and Rubin GPUs (techspot.com)

2026-02-18 | get Nvidia GPUs → | tags: according separate, ai training, centers

3021.

Waymo denies using remote drivers after Senate testimony goes viral (theverge.com)

2026-02-18 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | get Autonomous driving system → | tags: assistance, assistants, mcnamara

3022.

Nevada sues to block Kalshi’s prediction betting market (theverge.com)

2026-02-18 | by Emma Roth | tags: bets, cftc, kalshi

3023.

How to Choose the Bamboo Sheets for You (2026) (wired.com)

2026-02-18 | by Nena Farrell | get Bamboo sheets → | tags: bamboo, bedding, best

3024.

Tesla’s New Sales Data Is Absolutely Brutal (futurism.com)

2026-02-18 | by Joe Wilkins | get Electric Cars → | tags: european, january, musk

3025.

This new REI short film might inspire you to run, but it will definitely make you cry (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-18 | get Hoka One One → | tags: bone, cancer, cancer years

3026.

Are women board members risk averse or agents of innovation? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-18 | get Board Members Technology: AI → | tags: according recent, answer, answer according

3027.

Mistral AI to Buy Software Infrastructure Startup Koyeb (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-02-18 | get Koobie → | tags: acquisition, acquisition french, ai clinched

3028.

Data breach at fintech firm Figure affects nearly 1 million accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-02-18 | get Cloud storage → | tags: access, figure, incident

3029.

Amazon quietly cancels Blue Jay warehouse robot months after debut (techspot.com)

2026-02-18 | get Blue Robot → | tags: advances, advances artificial, ai rapid

3030.

TP-Link sued by Texas over alleged China-linked hacking access (techspot.com)

2026-02-18 | get Smart Router → | tags: abusing, abusing american, accessing