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Inside the meeting: White House favors some stablecoin rewards, tells banks it's time to move

Jesse Hamilton / coindesk - Sources familiar with the talks on stablecoin yields say the White House urged bankers to get on board with a deal that lets the market structure bill advance.

#fintech #crypto #techpolicy #banking #government #finance #treasury #payments #regulation #crypto

Banks, Crypto Firms Resume CLARITY Act Talks as White House Backs Select Stablecoin Yields - Eudaimonia and Co

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Custodia CEO Says Trump Family Crypto Ties Are Part of Clarity Act Problem - Yahoo Finance

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Risk-Off Capital Shifts Toward Tokenized Assets as DeFi Pulls Back - Decrypt

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Risk-Off Capital Shifts Toward Tokenized Assets as DeFi Pulls Back

15 days / decrypt / Akash Girimath

Stablecoin Yield Talks Resume at Third White House Meeting - CoinMarketCap

15 days / coinmarketcap

Anchorage Digital Links Global Banks to Stablecoin Rails

15 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

White House, Banks and Crypto Groups Resume Talks on Stablecoin Rewards

15 days / decrypt / Sebastian Sinclair

Inside the meeting: White House favors some stablecoin rewards, tells banks it's time to move

15 days / coindesk / Jesse Hamilton

‘More to come,’ crypto leaders say after third White House stablecoin meeting

15 days / theblock / Sarah Wynn

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US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

BeauHD / slashdot - The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local laws, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," reports Reuters. Washington vie…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #government #internet #us #globalism #dos #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

14 days / theregister / Carly Page

US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content

14 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Metadata, cloud sovereignty’s weak spot

14 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content | Internet

15 days / reddit / /u/YesNo_Maybe_

A new US government site could help users worldwide access blocked content

15 days / techspot

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 9:21 pm / permalink 19446 / 6 stories in 15 days


NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes

Eric Berger / arstechnica - "The most troubling failure revealed by this investigation is not hardware."

#techpolicy #nasa #astronauts #government #aviation #aerospace #culture #engineering #safety #regulation

NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

NASA’s report into troubled Starliner flight makes for uncomfortable reading

15 days / digitaltrends

Nasa boss says Boeing Starliner failure one of worst in its history

15 days / bbc

NASA chief blasts Boeing, space agency for failed Starliner astronaut mission

15 days / npr / Brendan Byrne

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15 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

New NASA Chief Blames Prior Leadership for Botched Starliner Mission

15 days / gizmodo / Ellyn Lapointe

NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes

15 days / reddit / /u/xpda

NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes

15 days / arstechnica / Eric Berger

NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle

15 days / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 19439 / 9 stories in 15 days


After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / theverge - Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has been on an "explanation tour," as The New York Times puts it, following the fallout from its Super Bowl ad and the introduction of its Search Party feature. In an interview with The Times this week, Siminoff explained that …

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #amazon #camera #security #privacy #media #superbowl #ring #advertising

Your Ring doorbell’s next job might not be finding lost pets

14 days / digitaltrends

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. www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Want to make a quick $10K? Just hack a Ring camera www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @boone.bsky.social / boone.bsky.social

“There’s now a group offering to dole out a $10,000 bounty to wrest back control of the user data Ring controls.” Great piece from @boone.bsky.social for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @thiccreese.bsky.social / thiccreese.bsky.social

"A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon" www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @socialmedialab.ca / socialmedialab.ca

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon

15 days / wired / Boone Ashworth

Talk about bringing back hackathons! Watch someone quit working at Amazon, solve it using insider info and then take a job at Microsoft, lol

15 days / bsky / @jacky.wtf / jacky.wtf

A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud

15 days / theverge / Emma Roth

After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions

15 days / theverge / Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Ring could be planning to expand Search Party feature beyond dogs

15 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

A leaked internal email shows Ring's plan targets more than pets

15 days / appleinsider

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 2:21 pm / permalink 19434 / 11 stories in 15 days


New York drops plan to legalize robotaxis in setback for Waymo

Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) dropped her proposal to allow robotaxi companies to launch commercially in cities other than New York City, citing a lack of support among state legislators, Bloomberg reports today. The move is a blow to Waymo and other…

#robotics #automation #techpolicy #selfdriving #robotaxis #politics #government #alphabet #unions #automotive

New York Drops Plan To Legalize Robotaxis Outside NYC

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

New York reverses on plans to allow robottaxis in major blow to Waymo

15 days / siliconangle / James Farrell

New York Gov. Hochul drops robotaxi service proposal for outside NYC in blow to Waymo

15 days / cnbc

New York drops plan to legalize robotaxis in setback for Waymo

15 days / theverge / Andrew J. Hawkins

New York hits the brakes on robotaxi expansion plan

15 days / techcrunch / Kirsten Korosec

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OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

Paresh Dave, wired.com / arstechnica - The viral agentic AI tool is known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.


Companies lock down OpenClaw amid security, privacy, and insider fears

OpenClaw and the privacy problem of agentic AI

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Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot

15 days / ft

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

15 days / ycombinator

Theft of Trade Secrets Is on the Rise—and AI Is Making It Worse

15 days / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar

OpenClaw Security Fears Lead Meta, Other AI Firms To Restrict Its Use

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster

15 days / theverge / Robert Hart

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

15 days / arstechnica / Paresh Dave, wired.com


NVIDIA enables faster local OpenClaw runs on RTX and DGX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU & DGX Spark Owners Can Run OpenClaw With Boosted AI Performance

15 days / wccftech / Hassan Mujtaba


Researchers and NIST push standards as agentic AI runs wild

AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures

15 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

New Research Shows AI Agents Are Running Wild Online, With Few Guardrails in Place

15 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Most AI bots lack basic safety disclosures, study finds

15 days / techxplore

AI Agents Are Getting Better. Their Safety Disclosures Aren't

15 days / cnet / Macy Meyer

NIST launches AI Agent Standards Initiative as autonomous AI moves into production

15 days / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

AI vs AI: Defense Without Humans in the Loop

15 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Open-source benchmark EVMbench tests how well AI agents handle smart contract exploits

15 days / reddit / /u/tekz


Startups clone OpenClaw, selling agentic automation to businesses

Ecosystem Roundup: Sea doubles down on AI; SBI backs Singapore as Asia’s digital asset hub; Fraud teams shift from back office to revenue drivers

15 days / e27 / Sainul

What Businesses Can Learn From the OpenClaw Story

15 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Agentic finance automation startup Stacks raises $23M in funding

15 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Intel’s Fix for PC Problems Is… “Agentic AI”; a Microsoft Copilot Bot That Promises Solutions While You Cross Your Fingers

15 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Interface.ai Debuts Agentic AI Collection Tool For Credit Unions

15 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Toyo raises seed funding to further develop “OpenClaw for founders” tool

15 days / betakit / Alex Riehl

Seedance 2.0 API Test: Integrated into My Agent in ~1 Minute

15 days / reddit / /u/Equivalent-Spend-415


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New Research Shows AI Agents Are Running Wild Online, With Few Guardrails in Place

15 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19425 / 23 stories in 15 days


Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

Shannon Carroll / qz - In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked

#techpolicy #meta #judiciary #zuckerberg #mentalhealth #law #contentmoderation #instagram #litigation #safety

The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it

15 days / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled On Usage Goals and Underage Users At California Trial

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Zuckerberg's Trial Testimony Pushes Back on Social Media Addiction Claims

15 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/zuckerberg-grilled-in-court-over-social-media-harms-on-teens/

15 days / bsky / @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Mark Zuckerberg Testifies in Social Media Addiction Trial

15 days / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens

15 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Mark Zuckerberg said very little on his first day of testimony—but the fact he’s here at all is a major moment

15 days / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

15 days / qz / Shannon Carroll

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 19417 / 8 stories in 15 days


West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting

appleinsider - West Virginia's attorney general believes iCloud is the greatest platform ever made to distribute child porn, and is the first government to sue Apple after a previous class action failed.Apple is under fire over its handling of CSAM on iCloud serversThe …

#cloud #techpolicy #cloudsec #apple #government #us #law #contentmoderation #litigation #digitalprivacy

The legal fight that could force Apple to rethink iCloud design

15 days / fastcompany / Taylor Hatmaker

Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

15 days / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Sued Over Allegations of CSAM on iCloud

15 days / cnet / Corinne Reichert

Remember in 2022 when Apple killed its plan to detect CSAM stored in iCloud accounts? (There was a huge uproar from privacy advocates.) Now West Virginia is suing Apple over the decision. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/a...

15 days / bsky / @stevekovach.bsky.social / stevekovach.bsky.social

Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

15 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

West Virginia sues Apple for allegedly letting child abuse spread in iCloud

15 days / theverge / Emma Roth

West Virginia is suing Apple alleging negligence over CSAM materials

15 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting

15 days / appleinsider

Apple sued by West Virginia for alleged failure to stop child sexual abuse material on iCloud, iOS devices

15 days / cnbc

West Virginia Claims That Apple Allows Child Sexual Abuse Material

15 days / nytimes / Kalley Huang

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New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - News laws requiring tech platforms to take down intimate images shared without the consent of the subject within 48 hours are set to come into effect. Through an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, online platforms could face fines of up to 10% of t…

#techpolicy #government #uk #internet #law #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

A new UK law would give platforms 48 hours to act on abusive content.

15 days / bsky / @siliconrepublic.bsky.social / siliconrepublic.bsky.social

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

15 days / theregister / Joe Fay

New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours

15 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Platforms must take down abusive content under proposed UK law

15 days / siliconrepublic / Tim Barnwell

Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law

16 days / reddit / /u/plain_handle

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 4:20 am / permalink 19402 / 5 stories in 15 days


Modi pitches India as global artificial intelligence hub at AI summit

abcnews - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pitched India as a major hub for artificial intelligence, built at home and used worldwide


Banking and payments: NPCI’s FiMI and AI fraud defenses

AI Must Evolve as an Infrastructure to Combat Real-Time Financial Fraud, Experts Say

15 days / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

FiMI Explained: NPCI’s In-House AI Model for Disputes, Mandates and Regulatory Queries

15 days / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das


Industrial AI arms race: Tata, Reliance, NVIDIA build compute backbone

Reliance unveils $110B AI investment plan as India ramps up tech ambitions

15 days / techcrunch / Jagmeet Singh

NVIDIA Deploys 20,000+ Blackwell GPUs Across India for Sovereign AI

15 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

India’s Reliance Industries to Invest $110 Billion in AI

15 days / wsj / Kosaku Narioka

OpenAI’s Tata Tie-Up Puts 100 MW of AI Compute on the Table in India

15 days / eweek / eWEEK Staff

OpenAI To Expand India Presence With Mumbai, Bengaluru Offices

15 days / inc42 / Lokesh Choudhary

Jio, Reliance To Invest ₹10 Lakh Cr In AI: Mukesh Ambani

15 days / inc42 / Anjali Jain

Tata Group, OpenAI To Build AI Infrastructure In India

16 days / inc42 / Lokesh Choudhary


Modi's MANAV: India’s sovereign AI strategy and policy push

$200B AI bet: India sweetens deeptech startup rules to 20 years

15 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Modi pitches India as global artificial intelligence hub at AI summit

16 days / abcnews

PM Modi Outlines India’s ‘MANAV’ Vision For Inclusive, Sovereign AI

16 days / inc42 / Anjali Jain


Summit drama: Gates exit and cold CEOs signal tensions

Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit

15 days / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Amid Epstein fallout, Bill Gates becomes point of controversy at India AI summit

15 days / cnbc

OpenAI and Anthropic’s rivalry on display as CEOs don't hold hands at India AI summit

15 days / cnbc

Chinese tech companies progress 'remarkable,' OpenAI's Altman tells CNBC

15 days / cnbc

Bill Gates pulls out of India's AI summit amid Epstein files controversy

15 days / bbc

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