The embattled xAI Grok chatbot is coming to Tesla EVs in the U.K. and Europe.

NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - AT&T; was sued on Tuesday by four New York City public pension funds, which accused it of wrongly refusing to let shareholders vote on their proposal to require the telecommunications company to disclose the breakdown of its 133,000-person workforce by race, ethnicity and gender. Read full story

Asus quietly ships ExpertBook B5 G2 with an unadvertised Windows 11 Pure OS option that appears tailored for enterprise customers.

The tool will get a full reveal at Galaxy Unpacked.

Samsung just teased a huge camera system upgrade that could be an AI game- changer for the Galaxy S26.

Anyone who's been paying even a little bit of attention to tech news lately could have made a reasonable guess that AI will be a big topic at Samsung's Unpacked next week. Ahead of the event, Samsung teased some of what's to come for AI in terms of the Galaxy S26 smartphone lineup's photography tools. The S26 phones will feature a new camera system using Galaxy AI that combines capturing, editing and sharing of photos and videos. "Users will be able to turn a photo from day to night in seconds, ..

Samsung is hinting that the next Galaxy phones will have some exciting new AI photo editing tools. New videos show exactly what users can do with photos.

WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it has adopted new software to assist in identifying whether a case poses a potential conflict of interest for the justices, who decide for themselves whether to step aside from participation in cases. Read full story

The Samsung Galaxy S26 lineup may or may not include Qi2 magnets, but these dbrand cases certainly do.

A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel's DRM Panic screen to a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience. Phoronix reports: Open-source developer Jose Exposito proposed today a nicer experience for DRM Panic integration on Fedora. Rather than using DRM Panic with just the kernel log contents being encoded in the QR code displayed when a kernel panic occurs, the proposal is to have a customized Fedora web-page with the encoded QR contents to be shown on that ..

WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Mississippi regulators will host a public hearing on Tuesday over plans by Elon Musk's xAI to build a gas-fired power plant to power its Colossus II data center, as the company faces a lawsuit threat by the NAACP, accusing it of violating federal law by installing and operating gas turbines without air permits. Read full story

Google announces dates for I/O 2026.

Google is rumored to be developing better face unlocking tech for both the Pixel 11 family and upcoming Chromebooks. This endeavor is internally codenamed Project Toscana. According to someone who allegedly tested it, it will work without any additional visible sensors on the Pixel phones. It's unclear if it's using infrared like iPhones do, but if it is, then the IR bits are hidden under the display (and Apple is rumored to be going the same route for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max). So ..

Save on the KeySmart SmartCard three-pack that works with Apple Find My, supports wireless charging, and lasts up to eight months per charge, on sale for $69.97.

Chorde voice email for Gmail and Outlook is offering its lifetime Pro Plan for $39.99, an 80 percent discount on a tool that lets users send voice messages directly from their inbox.

Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up Imagine using an AI to sort through your prescriptions and medical information, asking it if it saved that data for future conversations, and then watching it claim it had even if it couldn't. Joe D., a retired software quality assurance (SQA) engineer, says that Google Gemini lied to him and later admitted it was doing so to try and placate him.

GameHub's existing Windows emulator on Android has its fair share of issues.

CPU adoption is part of deeper partnership between the Social Network and Nvidia which will see millions of GPUs deployed over next few years Move over Intel and AMD Meta is among the first hyperscalers to deploy Nvidia's standalone CPUs, the two companies revealed on Tuesday. Meta has already deployed Nvidia's Grace processors in CPU-only systems at scale and is working with the GPU slinger to field its upcoming Vera CPUs beginning next year.

Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin writes: KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.6. In this new major release, Spectacle can recognize texts from screenshots, a new on-screen keyboard and new login manager are available for testing, and a first-time wizard Plasma Setup was ..

A look at our 2026 Responsible AI Progress Report.

It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much In their recent earnings call, Amazon kinda blew the doors off of industry analyst (motto: "we'll be wrong, then take it out on your stock") projections for their capex spend.

The cybersecurity company also said on Tuesday that it's buying Israeli startup Koi

After a selloff fueled by fears AI could upend the outsourcing model Indian IT professionals worried about 72-hour workweeks might soon face the opposite concern, as Bengaluru-based outsourcing giant Infosys has partnered with Anthropic to bring agentic AI to telecommunications companies and other regulated industries.

Backblaze analyzes 344,196 drives that collectively operated for over 115 million days, reporting improved reliability overall while exposing aging hardware risks and price volatility.

Google announced Tuesday that its annual developer conference will be held on May 19 and 20 at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: More than two years after Broadcom took over VMware, the virtualization company's customers are still grappling with higher prices, uncertainty, and the challenges of reducing vendor lock-in. Today, CloudBolt Software released a report, "The Mass Exodus That Never Was: The Squeeze Is Just Beginning," that provides insight into those struggles. CloudBolt is a hybrid cloud management platform provider that aims to identify VMware customers' ..

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Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year Three new threat groups began targeting critical infrastructure last year, while a well- known Beijing-backed crew - Volt Typhoon - continued to compromise cellular gateways and routers, and then break into US electric, oil, and gas companies in 2025, according to Dragos' annual threat report published on Tuesday.

According to a new rumor from China, Apples iPad Pro lineup may be left without an update for years to come. Leaker Instant Digital believes the current M5 generation iPad Pro 13 and iPad Pro 11 are not going to get significant updates anytime soon. This rumor makes sense as Apple tends to wait a hefty amount of time before bringing any drastic changes to its Pro tablets. The iPad Pro received its first major redesign in 2018 with the Pro 11 (2018) and Pro 12.9 (2018) and then in 2024 with the ..

The R36 Max 2 builds on Game Consoles cheap vertical handheld with a bigger 4:3 display and a new layout.

A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China. From a report: The case filed by Almeida Law Group on behalf of San Francisco-based "Spencer Christy, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated" centers on the Data Security Program regulations implemented by the DOJ last year. According to the suit, these were "implemented to prevent adversarial countries from acquiring large ..

Amazon expects to spend $200 billion this year on AI initiatives, the company said when it reported earnings.

The first beta for Android 17 sounds pretty modest, but if you have a recent Pixel phone, it's yours to peruse.

AMD's Helios rack-scale solution based on the MI455X accelerators, the company's major hope for AI market, may slip to 2027, whereas Nvidia may speed up roll out of the Vera Rubin platform if the latest market rumors are to be believed.

Residents of Potters Bar, a small town just north of London, are trying to block what would be one of Europe's largest data centers from being built on 85 acres of rolling farmland that separates their community from the neighboring village of South Mimms. Multinational operator Equinix acquired the land last October after the local council granted planning permission in January 2025, and the company intends to break ground this year on a development it estimates will cost more than $5 billion. ..

Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.

Google officially sets the date for I/O 2026.

Cybercriminals send physical letters with QR codes, tricking Trezor and Ledger users into revealing recovery phrases and losing cryptocurrency.

Meta recently won a patent for an LLM that would simulate users' accounts and post, like, and comment on their behalf, including for the accounts of people who have died.