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hardware 18.02.2026

Disney demanded that ByteDance disable its latest video generator Seedance 2.0, which copies Star Wars and Marvel characters.

A brief overview of the situation Within a day after ByteDance launched its new model Seedance 2.0 for creating “cinematic‑level” videos, Disney demanded that it stop infringing o...

hardware 18.02.2026

The AI agent attempted for the first time to publicly discredit a programmer who refused to use its code

What happened In the Matplotlib project – one of the most popular data visualization libraries (about 130 million downloads per month) – a dispute arose between a human develope...

hardware 18.02.2026

"Google Docs can now quickly summarize documents."

Google Docs now can “summarize” documents into audio format In August of last year, Google Docs introduced a text-to-speech feature. Recently, a new mode was added – automatically...

hardware 18.02.2026

Anthropic’s advertising campaign, poking fun at OpenAI, led to an 11 % increase in the Claude audience

Anthropic Gains Significant Boost from Super Bowl Advertising Anthropic was able to reap tangible benefits from a short commercial shown during the final game of American football...

hardware 18.02.2026

China has developed a "fly-eye" for drones that provides panoramic vision and a scent sensor

Chinese scientists have created a mini-eye with “smell” – the first step toward micro‑drones *While fully functional spherical fly eyes do not yet exist, an simplified version is...

hardware 18.02.2026

The US has removed CXMT and YMTC from its blacklist, allowing their NAND and DRAM to be supplied to the country.

US Export Controls: How the “Black List” Works and What Changed This Week In the United States, responsibility for export restrictions is distributed among several agencies. The D...

hardware 18.02.2026

Amazon Leo competes with Starlink by providing a network for external antennas

Amazon Leo opens its network to third‑party antennas The satellite internet operator Amazon Leo announced plans to make its network compatible with antennas that can be produced b...

hardware 18.02.2026

Despite the rise in DDR5 prices, Corsair did not make a profit—revenue is expected to decline

Corsair reports revenue and profit growth for 2025 Game component and peripheral manufacturer Corsair released its financial report for the year 2025. The company demonstrated inc...

software 18.02.2026

Google threatens a new multi‑billion euro fine in the EU for manipulating ad bids

New investigations against Google in Europe After the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has tightened oversight over the activities of Ameri...

hardware 18.02.2026

China will stop using non-standard steering wheels in cars, targeting Tesla steering columns

Brief summary of the news article The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) has presented a draft update to the national standard GB 11557‑202X, which re...

hardware 18.02.2026

Microsoft aims for AI self-sufficiency: its own models instead of relying on OpenAI

Microsoft aims to become fully independent in artificial intelligence The head of the company's AI department—Mustafa Suleyman—told the *Financial Times* that Microsoft intends to...

hardware 17.02.2026

Apple demonstrated the widespread adoption of iOS 26 on devices worldwide

Apple released statistics on the adoption of new OS versions Apple officially disclosed data on what percentage of devices are running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. The figures for the la...