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#wired.com. They Bet Against Trump’s Tariffs. Now They Stand to Make Millions. After the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, investment firms are in line for a whopping return on a niche trade.

#Feb.20.2026

#wired.com. The CDC Has a Leadership Crisis. A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it's had only acting directors—and the White House won't say when that will change.

#Feb.20.2026

#wired.com. Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans. Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

#Feb.20.2026

#wired.com. AI Safety Meets the War Machine. Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.

#Feb.20.2026

#wired.com. Supreme Court Rules Most of Donald Trump’s Tariffs Are Illegal. In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration’s signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds.

#Feb.20.2026

#bbc.com. Nasa targets March 6 date to send humans back around the Moon. Nasa sets the launch date following a successful "wet dress rehearsal" of the Artemis II mission.

#Feb.20.2026

#bbc.com. Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss. But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: "We totally reject global governance of AI."

#Feb.20.2026

#wired.com. Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists. House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.

#Feb.20.2026

#wired.com. This Much-Hyped Wall Heater Might Save You Energy. But It Has a Fatal Flaw. The Boldr Kelvin heater looks cool and promises energy savings and far-infrared heat. Too bad it also heats backward.

#Feb.20.2026

#wired.com. Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to CBP Agents Sparked a DOJ Probe. Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried to cultivate allies.

#Feb.20.2026

#wired.com. A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon. The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

#Feb.20.2026

#bbc.com. What is Seedance? The Chinese AI app sending Hollywood into a panic. Clips of Deadpool and other film characters have sparked alarm within Hollywood over copyright infringement.

#Feb.19.2026

#wired.com. An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years. A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death.

#Feb.19.2026

#wired.com. Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block. Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

#Feb.19.2026

#wired.com. Our Favorite Budget Desktop Speaker Is an Even Better Buy Right Now. These compact Edifier speakers may not be the fanciest, but they’ll blow your monitor’s built-in speakers out of the water.

#Feb.19.2026

#wired.com. Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI. The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

#Feb.19.2026

#theguardian.com. US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content. Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland Security

#Feb.19.2026

#wired.com. DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir. “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

#Feb.19.2026

#theguardian.com. Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’. From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at risk

#Feb.19.2026

#computerweekly.com. European politicians amplify disinformation about UN rapporteur | Computer Weekly. Government officials form the US and Europe have condemned UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for remarks about Isreal she never made, based on a truncated clip circulating online that takes her

#Feb.19.2026