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Warner Bros. rejects Paramount again but asks for "best and final offer" (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-17 | get Streaming service → | tags: bros, discovery, merger

962.

New report shows RAM prices are continuing to fall in Germany, US trends less certain — SSDs and HDDs are more expensive than ever in the States (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Hassam Nasir | get RAM → | tags: computerbase, january, just

963.

Pentagon Considers Designating Anthropic AI as a ‘Supply Chain Risk’: Report (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-17 | get AI Supply Chain → | tags: ai company, business military, cut ties

964.

Running AI models is turning into a memory game (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-17 | by Russell Brandom | get Neural Network → | tags: cache, memory, save

965.

Brace for a barren landscape of new hardware launches, as AI demand reshapes the world of consumer electronics — trillions in AI investment threaten to derail entire industries (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Sayem Ahmed | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: chips, consumer, market

966.

How Ford is building more efficient EV batteries with help from a tiny charging startup it bought 2 years ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-17 | get Battery → | tags: affordable, affordable electric, automaker

967.

Ford is focusing on efficiency to make its 2027 $30,000 EV pickup affordable (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-17 | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: battery, ford, pickup

968.

Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | get MacBook → | tags: await, file, recall

969.

Japanese toilet maker 'the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary,' investors claim — shares up nearly 40% in first two months of 2026 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Zak Killian | get Smart Toilet → | tags: advanced, market, materials

970.

We Might Have Gotten Our First Look at the Villains of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-17 | get Web shooters → | tags: announces, announces movie, movie

971.

Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | by Zachary Shahan | get Electric Motors → | tags: compared, compared january, drop

972.

Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack drops to an all-time-low price (engadget.com)

2026-02-17 | get AirPods → | tags: apple, battery, battery pack

973.

Researchers uncover firmware-level backdoor installed on several Android tablet brands (techspot.com)

2026-02-17 | get Android → | tags: android, android tablets, based security

974.

Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic (futurism.com)

2026-02-17 | by Victor Tangermann | get Neuralink → | tags: anthropic, claude, military

975.

Valve's Steam Deck OLED Will Be 'Intermittently' Out of Stock Because of the RAM Crisis (slashdot.org)

2026-02-17 | by Posted | get OLED Display → | tags: deck, launch, memory

976.

Tide spent 10 years turning laundry detergent into a tile. Please don’t eat it (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-17 | get OxiClean → | tags: agents, agents past, brand

977.

SurrealDB 3.0 wants to replace your five-database RAG stack with one (venturebeat.com)

2026-02-17 | get Database → | tags: database, graph, hitchcock

978.

Qodo 2.1 solves your coding agents' 'amnesia' problem, giving them an 11% precision boost (venturebeat.com)

2026-02-17 | get Qodo → | tags: code, enterprise, friedman

979.

Elevation Lab's AirTag 10-year extended battery case is only $16 right now (engadget.com)

2026-02-17 | get AirTag → | tags: airtag, batteries, battery

980.

Sony considering PlayStation 6 delay to 2029, while Nintendo could hike Switch 2 price, according to report — memory and storage chip shortage now impacting products outside of RAM, storage, and GPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Jowi Morales | get Memory → | tags: chip, memory, nintendo

981.

Virtual Boy app now available for Switch, but you'll need a special accessory to play (techspot.com)

2026-02-17 | get Nintendo Switch → | tags: access, access requires, accessory

982.

How to Convert Any Recipe for the Air Fryer in Minutes (cnet.com)

2026-02-17 | by See Full Bio | get Air Fryer → | tags: air fryer, cooking, fryer

983.

As AI jitters rattle IT stocks, Infosys partners with Anthropic to build ‘enterprise-grade’ AI agents (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-17 | by Jagmeet Singh | get AI Agents → | tags: anthropic, billion, industry

984.

Valve confirms Steam Deck is out of stock due to memory and storage shortages — supply of popular gaming handheld in trouble because of massive AI demand (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Jowi Morales | get Steam Deck → | tags: deck, handheld, memory

985.

Tech tinkerer gets Gemini to help him 'vibe code' an x86 motherboard design — bot help was impressive, but project still required human awareness and intervention (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Bruno Ferreira | get CPU → | tags: chip, design, gemini

986.

Apple is finally testing RCS encryption, but there’s a catch for Android users (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-17 | get Messaging → | tags: android, apple, chats

987.

EU launches second investigation into Grok's nonconsensual image generation (engadget.com)

2026-02-17 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: children, grok, images

988.

IT worker tried to destroy an SSD with a drill and failed spectacularly (techspot.com)

2026-02-17 | get Hard Drive → | tags: data recovery, destroy, destroy platters

989.

IT worker's drill fails to destroy SSD in viral mishap (techspot.com)

2026-02-17 | get Hard Drive → | tags: data recovery, destroy, destroy platters

990.

Keep forgetting where you parked? I found a charger that remembers for you (zdnet.com)

2026-02-17 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Smartphone → | tags: battery, built, car charger