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• SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping 2026-02-21
  'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants' SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google's claim that that it bypassed digital locks to gather copyrighted content in Google Search results.…
  Thomas Claburn
• The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense 2026-02-20
  The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand opinion  Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week. It's settled since, but it’s still […]
  Tobias Mann
• PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions 2026-02-20
  About 100 customers affected PayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs 2026-02-20
  Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear Anthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.…
  Thomas Claburn
• AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos 2026-02-20
  4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge. …
  Jessica Lyons
• SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists 2026-02-20
  Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come […]
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE 2026-02-20
  Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.…
  Tobias Mann
• ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data 2026-02-20
  What happens in Vegas… Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS 2026-02-20
  Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls' In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.…
  Dan Robinson
• Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed 2026-02-20
  Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption A judge-led commission in Quebec has found that the state agency responsible for driver's licenses and license plates misled the Canadian government about a troubled SAP ERP project that ran more than C$245 million ($179 million/£132.6 million) over budget.…
  Lindsay Clark
• Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs 2026-02-20
  Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…
  Connor Jones
• Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work 2026-02-20
  Consultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirations Accenture staff must demonstrate they have fully bought into the consultancy's AI vision if they want to get on.…
  Joe Fay
• Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play 2026-02-20
  Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a […]
  Carly Page
• Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame 2026-02-20
  Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs Hard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage.…
  Dan Robinson
• EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs 2026-02-20
  'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated comments and documentation.…
  Joe Fay
• CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug 2026-02-20
  Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024.…
  Carly Page
• From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding 2026-02-20
  Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later' 25 years after the Agile Manifesto, a group of experts hosted by one its signatories met to consider the impact of AI on software development, concluding among other things that test-driven development has never been more important.…
  Tim Anderson
• Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets 2026-02-20
  Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and security technology secrets and then trying to cover their tracks when the scheme began to unravel.…
  Carly Page
• Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine 2026-02-20
  Appeals judge overrules lower tribunal in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant The UK's data protection watchdog has scored a small win in a lengthy legal battle against a British retail group that lost millions of data records during a 2017 breach.…
  Connor Jones
• HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears 2026-02-20
  About half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in April The UK tax collector has exempted 661 people from moving to quarterly software-based reporting under its Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme, about half the number who have applied.…
  SA Mathieson