The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verificationI built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
https://hawksley.org/2026/02/17/timeframe.htmlLadybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/account-restricted-without-warning-google-ai-ultra-oauth-via-openclaw/122778Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/americans-are-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
https://joinloops.org/Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-leo-xiv-tells-priests-to-use-their-brains-not-ai-to-write-homiliesElsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/elsevier-shuts-down-its-finance-journalBinance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employees-iran-firings.htmlShow HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable
https://cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev/Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%
https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1rce0lf/hetzner_european_hosting_provider_to_increase/FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdfFirefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
https://serverhost.com/blog/firefox-148-launches-with-exciting-ai-kill-switch-feature-and-more-enhancements/Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
https://magicalmushroom.com/indexHetzner Prices increase 30-40%
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-blood-boosts-alzheimer-diagnosis-accuracy.htmlASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/asml-unveils-euv-light-source-advance-that-could-yield-50-more-chips-by-2030-2026-02-23/“Car Wash” test with 53 models
https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-testSix Math Essentials
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/six-math-essentials/Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdogWriting code is cheap now
https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/code-is-cheap/A simple web we own
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02/21/a_simple_web_we_own.htmlFix your tools
https://ochagavia.nl/blog/fix-your-tools/Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates
https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/steerling-8b-base-model-release/AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet
https://fmhy.net/Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/vegas-police-are-big-users-of-license-plate-readers-public-has-little-input-because-its-a-giftMaking Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/making-wolfram-tech-available-as-a-foundation-tool-for-llm-systems/I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
https://dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20-ported-coreboot/
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