There was way too much going on this week to not split, so here we are. This first half contains all the usual first-half items, with a focus on projections...
Monthly Roundup #39: February 2026
There really is a lot going on these days. I held off posting this because I was trying to see if I could write a net helpful post about the...
Verizon acknowledges “pain” of new unlock policy, suggests change is coming
FCC let Verizon lock phones for longer Verizon did not mention this plan when we contacted the company’s public relations team on Friday. At the time, Verizon confirmed the current...
Chevy Bolt, BMW i3, or something else? At $10K, you have lots of EV options
2026 is looking like a pretty good year for affordable electric vehicles. There’s a new Nissan Leaf that starts at a hair under $30,000 (as long as you ignore the...
Lawsuit: EPA revoking greenhouse gas finding risks “thousands of avoidable deaths”
EPA sued for abandoning its mission to protect public health. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency was accused of abandoning its mission to protect public health after...
5 changes to know about in Apple’s latest iOS, macOS, and iPadOS betas
The 26.3 updates were mostly invisible; these changes are more significant. A collection of iPhones running iOS 26. Credit: Apple A collection of iPhones running iOS 26. Credit: Apple This...
Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium. Right now, Silica hardware isn’t quite ready for commercialization. Credit: Microsoft Research Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media...
FDA reverses surprise rejection of Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine
Anti-vaccine agenda Agency insiders told reporters that a team of career scientists was ready to review the vaccine and held an hourlong meeting with Prasad to present the reasons for...
Record scratch—Google’s Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today
Sour notes AI-generated music is not a new phenomenon. Several companies offer models that ingest and homogenize human-created music, and the resulting tracks can sound remarkably “real,” if a bit...
Google’s Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear
It’s that time of year—a new budget Pixel phone is about to hit virtual shelves. The Pixel 10a will be available on March 5, and pre-orders go live today. The...
X-rays reveal kingfisher feather structure in unprecedented detail
A spongy nanostructure The Northwestern team started looking at kingfisher feathers in tian-tsui objects via postdoc Madeline Meier, who has a background in chemistry and nanostructures and was interested in...
Inside the DHS forum where ICE agents trash talk one another
Complaining about your job Forum members have discussed their discomfort with mass deportation efforts. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images Every day, people log into an online forum for current and former...
GameHub will give Mac owners another imperfect way to play Windows games
Reasons for worry In a recent interview with The Memory Core newsletter, GameSir admitted that its primary motivation for releasing a Windows emulation tool was to sell more of its...
Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true
ZERO KNOWLEDGE, ZERO CLUE Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over. Over the past 15 years, password managers have grown from a niche security...
Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat
We contacted CBS and its owner Paramount today and have not received a response. CBS denied prohibiting an interview with Talarico in a statement reported by Variety. The CBS statement acknowledged...
Most VMware users still “actively reducing their VMware footprint,” survey finds
Migrations are ongoing Broadcom introduced changes to VMware that are especially unfriendly to small- and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and Gartner previously predicted that 35 percent of VMware workloads would migrate else...
What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under?
Connected car servers won’t be online indefinitely, and startups often go bust. Fisker managed to deliver some Oceans before it sank. But are those owners beached now? Credit: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg...
RAM shortage hits Valve’s four-year-old Steam Deck, now available “intermittently”
Earlier this month, Valve announced it was delaying the release of its new Steam Machine desktop and Steam Frame VR headset due to memory and storage shortages that have been...
Warner Bros. rejects Paramount again but asks for “best and final offer”
Warner Bros. seeks higher offer, new terms Paramount is offering $31 per share, but it wants to buy the entire Warner Bros. Discovery company, while Netflix’s deal is for just...
There’s a lot of big talk about sovereign launch—who is doing something about it?
As alliances fray, these are the nations investing in sovereign access to space. PLD Space shows off a model of its Miura 1 suborbital rocket during a 2021 presentation on...
