Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in February 2026
Welcome to the February 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! These reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting items of...
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What it was like to watch grieving parents stare down Mark Zuckerberg in court
Around a dozen parents huddled in the dim hallway outside the courtroom in February, nervously gripping paper tickets. They were glaring at a gray tote bag...
Read moreTrump’s DOJ is not falling for Sam Bankman-Fried’s MAGA makeover on X
Ever since Donald Trump took office and declared himself a “pro-crypto president,” FTX’s disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been working to convince the administration that he’s...
Read moreThe original AirTag is the cheapest it’s ever been
The original AirTags are still great value, especially now they’re over half off. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Despite the fact Apple released...
Read moreKPop Demon Hunters is getting a sequel, obviously
The girl group is coming back. Get ready to get even more K-pop, demonier, and as huntery as possible. Netflix’s smash-hit, Oscar-nominated animated film KPop Demon...
Read moreHow Would a Field Sequential Home Computer Have Worked?
The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of the most interesting might-have-beens was the CBS field-sequential system. This was...
Read moreGoogle Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
WIRED spoke with Nick Fox, Google’s SVP of knowledge and information, about how AI is changing the company’s advertising business.
Read moreDirk Eddelbuettel: RcppBDT 0.2.8 on CRAN: Maintenance
Another minor maintenance release for the RcppBDT package is now on CRAN, and had been built as binary for r2u. The RcppBDT package is an early...
Read moreAnthropic’s Claude can now draw interactive charts and diagrams
Anthropic’s Claude has always been great at coding and working with text, but where Google and OpenAI invested heavily in audio, image, and video models, Anthropic...
Read moreInvesting in Your Professional Community Yields Big Returns
Engineering is so much more than solving problems or writing efficient code. It is about creating solutions that affect billions of lives and contributing to a...
Read moreUS Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access
A bipartisan bill would force the FBI to get a warrant to read Americans’ messages and ban the federal purchase of commercial data on US residents...
Read moreFacebook Marketplace adds AI auto-replies for annoying ‘Is this still available?’ messages
Facebook Marketplace is adding a bunch of new AI-powered tools that are supposed to make selling items on the platform a little more efficient. One feature...
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