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Rising payment fraud has pushed security specialists to propose a surprisingly simple countermeasure: a discreet sticker on your bank card. The tactic is low-cost yet potent, and it adds friction where criminals prefer ease. By obscuring what thieves need to see, this small addition creates a barrier that most opportunists simply won’t cross. Why a…

Airline staff in Las Vegas say a woman who couldn’t get her dog cleared as a service animal simply left him tied to a metal baggage sizer at an airport ticket counter and walked off to her gate. Police say 26-year-old Germiran Bryson was denied a boarding pass at the JetBlue counter at Harry Reid…

Costco’s decision to buck President Donald Trump appears to have paid off now that a majority od Supreme Court Justices have destroyed his self-appointed power to impose arbitrary international tariffs at the whim of a social media post “Back in December, I wrote about how Costco became the first major retailer — and the largest…

“Today’s GDP report showed that President Trump continues to deliver robust private sector-led economic growth with strong consumption and investment. Even with the Democrat Government Shutdown dragging the country down last fall, GDP growth for 2025 smashed the Federal Reserve, Congressional Budget Office, and International Monetary Fund’s ‘expert’ predictions. As President Trump’s proven agenda of…

Broker-dealers regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can treat their stablecoin holdings as regulatory capital, according to a tweak this week to a frequently-asked-questions document maintained by the agency. STORY CONTINUES BELOW That’s a seismic shift offered in the form of a minor addition to the SEC’s “Broker Dealer Financial Responsibilities” FAQ….

Shares of several major cybersecurity providers dropped today after Anthropic PBC introduced a tool for finding software vulnerabilities. The offering is called Claude Code Security. It’s available as a limited research preview in the Enterprise and Teams editions of Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence service. Additionally, the company plans to provide “expedited access” for open-source project…

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to conduct a wide range of malicious actions, including deploying VShell and  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), allows attackers to execute operating system commands in the context of the…

OpenAI seems to have found product-market fit with young Indians. The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age accounted for nearly 50% of messages sent to ChatGPT in the country, and users under 30 accounted for 80%. The AI lab said Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work, with 35%…

An unexpected product placement briefly took the focus off Mark Zuckerberg’s highly anticipated testimony at a landmark social media addiction trial against Meta and YouTube on Wednesday. Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl threatened to hold members of Zuckerberg’s entourage in contempt of court for wearing Meta AI glasses, which have the ability to record, CNBC reported….

Amazon just knocked Walmart out of the top spot it has held for 16 years straight. The tech giant has edged past the Arkansas retailer to become the largest company in the US—and the world—by annual revenue, pulling in $716.9 billion over its most recent fiscal year versus Walmart’s $713.2 billion, the Wall Street Journal…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by the six-week shutdown of the federal government and a pullback in consumer spending. The nation’s gross domestic product — the total output of goods and services — increased at a 1.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter,…

Written by Amazon Staff 1 min read We want to address the inaccuracies in the Financial Times’ reporting yesterday. The brief service interruption they reported on was the result of user error—specifically misconfigured access controls—not AI as the story claims. The disruption was an extremely limited event last December affecting a single service (AWS Cost Explorer—which helps…

US courts have charged three individuals, including two ex-Google employees, regarding the theft of trade secrets in regards to Google’s efforts with Tensor chips in Pixel phones. In a US court case (USA v. Ghandali, 26-cr-00071), three individuals have been charged with 14 felony counts of conspiracy and theft of trade secrets, as well as…

Ted Sarandos is not amused and he’s not sitting quietly. The Netflix co-CEO is vigorously making his case for why Netflix should be the ultimate owner of Warner Bros. Discovery. Sarandos has been speaking out forcefully even as the board of WBD went back into negotiations with Paramount Skydance this week. In Sarandos’ view, the…

A federal judge has rejected Tesla’s bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida, dealing a significant blow to the automaker’s legal strategy as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits tied to its driver-assistance technology. U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami ruled that the evidence…

Lucid Motors is laying off 12% of its workforce in a bid to “improve operational effectiveness and optimize our resources as we continue on our path toward profitability,” according to an internal memo that was obtained by TechCrunch. Hourly workers on the manufacturing, logistics, and quality teams are not affected by the cuts, according to…

A Portland company is recalling a beloved frozen Trader Joe’s product after some consumers reported finding glass in their dinner. Ajinomoto Foods North America — a supplier based in Southeast Portland — just pulled more than 3 million pounds of frozen chicken fried rice due to potential glass contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food…

Nevada’s effort to block the prediction market platform Kalshi is moving through multiple courts, and that could have major ramifications for the brewing battle over sports betting. A judge on Tuesday denied the company’s request to block the state from taking civil action against it. Nevada regulators claim that Kalshi, through its prediction market contracts,…

In case you were thinking about getting a job at Google as a means of stealing CPU technology, we wouldn’t recommend it. Two ex-Googlers and one of their husbands have been indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets with relation to Google’s Tensor processor for Pixel phones. If found guilty of the charges, they face 20+…

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is firing back at James Cameron‘s endorsement of Paramount in the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery. In an interview on Fox Business Network’s The Claman Countdown, Sarandos challenged remarks from Cameron to lawmakers undermining Netflix’s pledge to keep Warner Bros. movies in theaters. “I’m particularly surprised and disappointed that James…

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Why the biggest risk in AI might not be the technology, but the trillion-dollar race to build it See where data centers are across the US on our interactive map How data centers are deepening the water crisis Big Tech promised jobs. Cities gave millions. Where are the workers? The True Cost of Data Centers…

A limited U.S. strike on Iranian military or nuclear targets is the likeliest outcome. That’s what Morningstar thinks, according to the company’s equity director Joshua Aguilar, who outlined in a note sent to Rigzone late Thursday that this scenario “would mean no impact on global physical flows, so the global surplus would remain intact”. “Any…

Last night, Tesla made some hefty cuts to Cybertruck pricing in an effort to stimulate some sales. The bombastic tri-motor “Cyberbeast” is $15,000 cheaper at $99,990, albeit by dropping some previously free features like supercharging and FSD. And there’s now a new $59,990 entry-level model, a dual-motor configuration with a range of 325 miles (523…

Paramount Skydance said its potential deal to snap up Warner Bros. Discovery in its entirety has cleared antitrust review at the U.S. Justice Department — despite the fact that David Ellison’s Paramount has repeatedly failed to secure an agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD for now remains committed to its deal with Netflix. On…

Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools. Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools. Feb 20, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow….

A judge has denied Tesla’s request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict that held the automaker partially responsible for a fatal crash involving its Autopilot driver assistance system. “The grounds for relief that Tesla relies upon are virtually the same as those Tesla put forth previously during the course of trial and in their…

For years, social media companies have disputed allegations that they harm children’s mental health through deliberate design choices that addict kids to their platforms and fail to protect them from sexual predators and dangerous content. Now, these tech giants are getting a chance to make their case in courtrooms around the country, including before a…

For the first time, after years of public questions and congressional hearings, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to take the stand in front of a jury and a group of bereaved parents to defend the alleged effects of the company’s products on teenagers. Faced with accusations that Facebook and Instagram sought to push teens…

About a decade after concluding her 10 years of service in the U.S. Army, Beth Benike of Oronoco, Minnesota, became a mother for the first time—and came up with her first idea for a small business.  “I had the idea for an invention that would stop babies from dropping and throwing everything on the ground…

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Transportation Electric Cars The price is lower, but the stigma remains the same. The price is lower, but the stigma remains the same. Feb 20, 2026, 12:47 PM UTC Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Tesla has announced a…