Lunar Energy raises $232M to deploy home batteries that prop up the grid
The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries.
Month: February 2026
Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches
The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website.
The Great Unwind
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Intel will start making GPUs
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Bitcoin price sets new 15-month low under $73K as crypto liquidates $800M
Bitcoin fell to its lowest levels since November 2024 after beating its previous bottom, with $70,000 BTC price support and under coming into focus.
Apple TV details its 2026 streaming lineup with big list of announcements
Keanu Reeves in Outcome. | Image: Apple For much of its existence, Apple’s streaming service has seemed intent to focus on quality over quantity, offering some great shows but often feeling barren in comparison to competitors like Netflix and Disney. But as Apple TV looks to expand its reach to hit a larger audience, it … Read more
I was detained by federal agents in Minneapolis
In late 2025, the Department of Homeland Security zeroed in on the Twin Cities in Minnesota, supposedly in response to fraud allegations made by a right-wing influencer. In the months since, thousands of immigrants have been swept up by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. In January alone, two American citizens were killed while documenting ICE operations … Read more
Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security
Microsoft has a new head of security. Hayete Gallot, who left Microsoft in October 2024 to become the president of Google Cloud’s customer experience, is returning to the software giant as the executive vice president of security, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella. The move means Charlie Bell, formerly Microsoft’s security chief, is taking on … Read more
Google’s Pixel 10A will be revealed on February 18th
Pixel 10A teaser | Image: Google Google has taken the wraps off the Pixel 10A, the latest in its line of budget-friendly smartphones. A teaser shared on Wednesday shows off the new device in a powdery blue color, which will be available for preorder on February 18th. Based on the teaser shared by Google, the … Read more
Fireblocks to integrate Stacks for institutional-grade Bitcoin DeFi
The Bitcoin network has an average block time of about 10 minutes, which creates a challenge for decentralized finance applications.
AI is killing B2B SaaS
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Europe’s role in the next wave of tokenisation
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad writes about how the EU’s regulatory clarity could allow tokenised markets to scale. Then, Andy Baehr tells BNB to “suit up.”
What Dubai’s ban on Monero and Zcash signals for regulated crypto
Dubai’s ban on privacy coins highlights how regulators are prioritizing transparency over anonymity in institutional crypto and regulated exchanges.
UBS CEO Details Crypto Plans Following Report of Bitcoin, Ethereum Trading for Wealthy Clients
Publicly traded Swiss bank UBS is working on plans to offer digital assets trading and tokenized service offerings for users, its CEO said.
Reinforcement Learning on Non-Euclidean Spaces: Swarms, Spheres, and Hyperbolic RL
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Some recent trends in theoretical ML 2.1 Deep Learning via continuous-time controlled dynamical system 2.2 Probabilistic modeling and inference in DL 2.3 Deep Learning in non-Euclidean spaces 2.4 Physics Informed ML Kuramoto model 3.1 Kuramoto models from the geometric point of view 3.2 Hyperbolic geometry of Kuramoto ensembles … Read more
A New Cyber-Insurance Model Uses Game Theory to Protect Smart Power Grids
:::info Authors: Pikkin Lau, Student Member, IEEE, Lingfeng Wang, Senior Member, IEEE, Wei Wei, Zhaoxi Liu, Member, IEEE, and Chee-Wooi Ten, Senior Member, IEEE ::: Table of Links ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION PROPOSED EPIDEMIC CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM MODEL PROPOSED INSURANCE PREMIUM PRINCIPLE SIMULATION RESULTS CONCLUDING REMARKS AND REFERENCES ABSTRACT In this paper, a novel cyber-insurance model design is … Read more
Roblox’s 4D creation feature is now available in open beta
Roblox’s highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.
Fallout’s season 2 finale left plenty unanswered as it expanded in scope
There’s been a clear shift over Fallout‘s second season. While the show started out as a relatively goofy introduction to the postapocalyptic wasteland, one that nailed the vibes of the games perfectly, season 2 has been intent on making the world even bigger. And nowhere was that more clear than in the season finale, in … Read more
Roblox calls its take on AI world models ‘real-time dreaming’
Less than a week after Google showed off Project Genie, a tool powered by an AI world model that lets users generate interactive 3D experiences from prompts, Roblox is sharing some early ideas about how it wants to use AI world models and prompts to let creators generate experiences and change them in real time … Read more
GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents
GitHub is making Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agents directly available inside GitHub today. A new public preview adds Claude and Codex to GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, for users with a Copilot Pro Plus or Copilot Enterprise subscription. The move is part of Agent HQ, GitHub’s vision to make … Read more
Newly unsealed DOJ files link Jeffrey Epstein to a 2014 investment in Coinbase
Emails show Brock Pierce introduced Jeffrey Epstein to the Coinbase round, while Blockchain Capital later said its fund investment was never completed as Epstein invested independently.
‘Incognito’ operator sentenced to 30 years for running a dark web drug market
On Tuesday, Rui-Siang Lin was sentenced to 30 years in prison for running “Incognito Market,” a dark web platform that prosecutors say “sold more than $105 million of narcotics-including more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine, over 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamines, hundreds of kilograms of other narcotics, and more than 4 kilograms of purported ‘oxycodone’,” between … Read more
From ‘Ethereum’s sidekick’ to standalone stars: How Vitalik Buterin’s latest pivot is forcing Layer 2s to grow up
Leaders across the layer-2 space don’t see this moment as an existential threat, but rather that Ethereum’s progress is forcing them to clarify their purpose.