Month: February 2026
‘You are not scaling Ethereum’: Vitalik Buterin issues a blunt reality check to the biggest crypto networks
The roadmap in place doesn’t make as much sense because progress among layer-2s toward later stages of decentralization has been slower and more difficult, and Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on layer-1.
Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free
This AI doctor is licensed in all 50 states, the startup says. The deal was led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins.
Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf]
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French police raid X’s Paris office as UK investigation continues
A raid on X’s Paris office was carried out by the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit on Tuesday with Europol and French police as part of an ongoing investigation that expanded in July to include Grok. As previously reported by Reuters, Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were also summoned for hearings in April. … Read more
The Switch is Nintendo’s best-selling console — and its most transformative
Nintendo has had plenty of highs over its few decades in the video game industry. Popularizing home consoles with the NES, introducing new audiences to games through the Wii’s motion controls, and the touchscreen Trojan horse that was the Nintendo DS, to name a few. But often these successes were followed by missteps; the Wii … Read more
Bitcoin will ‘massively’ outperform gold over 10 years, says Pantera’s Dan Morehead
“I think crypto starts to become invisibly more part of everyone’s lives,” said Tom Lee — the two appeared on a panel together Tuesday morning at the Ondo Summit in New York.
221 Cannon is Not For Sale
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French police search X office in Paris, summons Elon Musk for questioning
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it is expanding a criminal investigation into X for alleged crimes, including the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.
1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
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Galaxy Digital Shares Dive Following $482 Million Q4 Loss
Galaxy Digital shares fell after the institutional crypto firm disclosed a 22% hit to the value of its investments and digital assets in Q4.
Spain to follow UK with plans to ban social media for children under 16
Pedro Sánchez announced that Spain would implement several changes to laws impacting social media platforms starting next week, with potential criminal liability for executives.
Bitcoin, crypto ‘winter’ soon over, says BitWise exec as gold retargets $5K
Bitcoin failed to attack $80,000 resistance as gold sought a $5,000 reclaim, while analysis argued that “crypto winter” began in January 2025.
Agentic AI for healthcare data analysis with Amazon SageMaker Data Agent
Performing research and clinical analytics on vast amounts of clinical data can be difficult. Healthcare data scientists and epidemiologists possess deep domain expertise in patient care, disease patterns, and clinical outcomes, yet they often spend weeks navigating complex data infrastructures, writing boilerplate code, and wrestling with technical barriers before they can answer a single clinical … Read more
X offices raided in France
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What tech CEOs and executives have said about ICE’s actions in Minnesota
The Trump administration’s approach to immigration has reached a level of violence that the tech industry cannot ignore. Here’s how tech leaders are responding to the moment.
Claude Code was down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break
Anthropic’s Claude AI models experienced a major outage today, impacting products like Claude Code. Developers were seeing a 500 error when trying to use Claude Code, and Anthropic said that it was seeing elevated error rates on its APIs “across all Claude models.” Anthropic quickly identified the root cause and implemented a fix within around … Read more
This Humanoid Robot From CES 2026 is the Most Promising
Welcome back to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon’s Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and related polls around the web. Thanks for voting and helping us shape these important conversations! This week, we’re talking about the humanoid robots that stole the show at CES 2026. CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) can be described … Read more