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Another casualty of streaming, yet Blu-ray PC drives, players, and discs are expected to remain niche but stable markets.

How's your Valentine's Day going?

PCs without the new certificates could eventually have trouble booting new OSes.

TikTok's new Local Feed will show you nearby shopping, dining, events, news, and more.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/tiktok-launches-an-opt-in-local-feed-in-the-u-s-leveraging-users-precise-location/

YouTube Music has started putting lyrics — a previously free feature introduced in 2020 — behind a paywall.

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260210192450/https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/

Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warn

Following the EU Council’s vote last week to extend the controversial “Chat Control 1.0” (Regulation (EU) 2021/1232), civil society resistance is forming. Activists are calling on citizens to take immediate action and contact Members of the European Parliament via the platform fightchatcontrol.eu. While EU governments are pushing to continue the mass screening of private messages by US tech companies, the European Parliament’s position remains undecided. The draft report by Rapporteur Birgit Sippel (S&D) is expected shortly.

Google on Tuesday expanded its "Results about you" tool to let users request the removal of Search results containing government-issued ID numbers -- including driver's licenses, passports and Social Security numbers -- adding to the tool's existing ability to flag results that surface phone numbers, email addresses, and home addresses.

Facebook's new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgrounds to text posts.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/facebook-adds-new-ai-features-animated-profile-photos-and-backgrounds-for-text-posts/

Not really.

But the military does, because further improvement allows stealthier micro-camera-transmitters and things like that.

So they don't let you buy a phone that lasts 10 years with a giant battery and a 6-square-inch SoC at a good price.

They make you buy overpriced short lived phones with tiny chips and batteries, to make you want the next newest most power-efficient chip, with 5G or 6G wireless. Thanks to your support, they can deploy a global network of this tech, and use it for things like MilliMobiles and NSO Group device access.

They don't let the prices go down at full speed on hard drives, RAM, graphics cards, etc. They can just print money to get as much as they need, while worker ants have to provide heavy support to the industry if we want table scraps. We even have to argue about what we do and don't "own" after buying it.

All for their surveillance state, to control you in service of eroding your constitutional rights (not to mention bombing kids and protecting sexual predator islands)

Age verification for all.

One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all

A Meta spokesperson said the EU had "no reason" to intervene over it changing the app in January.

The next system update for Windows 11 could break your printer. Here's what you need to know.

In the race for AI, tech firms are asking for their staff to work long hours. But there are risks, experts say.

Spotify is tightening the rules for developer access, setting a clear course for its platform in 2026.  The company is adjusting the terms and conditions

Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

The VPN provider said no user data will be compromised

I need an OS, not another hobby.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260207193448/https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake

Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.

The European Commission said today that TikTok is facing a fine because its addictive features, including infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and personalized recommendation systems, are breaching the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA).

Puebla students have built and launched a nano-satellite to monitor the volcano Popocatépetl and prevent disasters.