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Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute

The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech.

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Discord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash

The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.

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Instagram head pressed on lengthy delay to launch teen safety features, like a nudity filter, court filing reveals

An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn't launch its unwanted nudity filter until 2024.

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Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from US defense contractor

The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sa

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Spotify and Liquid Death release a limited-edition speaker shaped like … an urn?

Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn.

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DJI sues the FCC for “carelessly” restricting its drones

DJI lawsuit says company has been "severely harmed by the FCC’s ruling."

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Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding

I've been begrudgingly working on autorouters for 2 years, looking for new techniques or modern methods that might allow AI to create circuit boards. One of the biggest problems in my view for training an AI to do autorouting is the traditional grid-

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Looks like it is happening

Article URL: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15500 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143211 Points: 75 # Comments: 39

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Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/apple-accelerates-us-manufacturing-with-mac-mini-production/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143152 Points: 120 # Comments: 75

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How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142156 Points: 120 # Comments: 17

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We Are Changing Our Developer Productivity Experiment Design

Article URL: https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142078 Points: 12 # Comments: 5

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Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate

Article URL: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20140 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141385 Points: 39 # Comments: 12

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Hugging Face Skills

Article URL: https://github.com/huggingface/skills Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139902 Points: 104 # Comments: 34

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More startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before

AI has brought the startup world the rise of startups that instantly hit multimillion ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.

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Instagram’s TV app is launching on Google TV devices

By bringing Reels to TVs, Instagram looking to better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space.