Feb. 17, 2026

The raids allegedly began in response to a recent ProPublica article featuring letters and drawings from children inside the San Antonio-area immigrant detention site.

https://apnews.com/article/meta-tiktok-snap-discord-zuckerberg-testify-senate-00754a6bea92aaad62585ed55f219932

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night called CBS’s denial of his claim that it blocked the broadcast of his interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico “crap” — and urged the network and its parent, Paramount Skydance, to stand up to the “bullies” in the Trump administration.

Documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft’s cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images.

More than a year after a 33-year-old woman froze to death on Austria’s highest mountain, her boyfriend goes on trial on Thursday accused of gross negligent manslaughter.

“They lied to my dad that they needed help with their car,” his son said. “My dad’s a generous guy, he’s willing to help anybody.”

Edit note: Image source changed to fix a typo.

The Privacy Illusion: How Brave Browser Built Its Own Surveillance Machine.

AT THE MILAN CORTINA 2026 Winter Olympics, competing under the American banner has put some athletes at odds with their own government, transforming them — in a handful of candid remarks — from cereal-box patriots into political liabilities swiftly pilloried by the conservative establishment.

A parent named Nancy said that she was concerned that teenagers could be ‘susceptible to influence’ at the TPUSA event

*totally chill person, sorry autocorrect

https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116087347827023923

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/scientist-jack-horner-linked-to-jeffrey-epstein-in-newly-released-doj-files

Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to always be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media.

Made this for an RPG project I’ve been working on.

From what I’ve been able to gather, I think they just have the writer wrong, it’s Isaac Asimov, and the book those two did together is The Space Merchants, which doesn’t appear to have to do with crime at all.

A lot of people are going to die, including US service members, this is a solemn moment to reflect on how this will be a choice we could have avoided. We must never forget in the aftermath of trauma that this will not be a random act of nature but a targeted, willing dismantling of geopolitical global stability that was undertaken precisely because it could not be revoked.

War is coming

Moderna said it had held further discussions with regulators and announced that the agency would accept the company’s application for approval of its flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology.

Notepad++ has adopted a “double-lock” design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that resulted in a supply-chain compromise.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-87755-BD-Au-Chant-des-Grenouilles.html

Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, has decided to leave her position as the EU’s top central banker before the end of her mandate in October 2027, according to a report in the Financial Times. The move could allow for her successor to be named ahead of presidential elections in France. Also in this edition, Venezuela’s interim government issues its first statement on the disputed oil-rich territory of Essequibo.

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[a green flag with a leaf stands above an utopian green city with vegetation and clean energy] Greenists believe that the world should be a better place for green people, and everyone else too [an orange fascist-looking star in a gear logo stands above a bleak concrete city] Orangites believe that the world should only have orange people, and that all greens should be hung [an orange character speaks smugly, in a bedroom that contains an orangite logo and a greenist/orangite flag] Me? I’m a greenist-orangite, why do you ask?

Feb. 17, 2026

Sage ich selten aber das ergibt Sinn was Von der Leyrn da vorschlägt. Wenn nicht alle EU Mitglieder engere Zusammenarbeit wollen muss man halt innerhalb der EU eine zweite Stufe einführen anstatt immer auf einen allgemeinen Konsens zu warten