Lockdown Mode is “not necessary” for most people and “tightly constrains how ChatGPT can interact with external systems to reduce the risk of prompt injection–based data exfiltration,”according to OpenAI.
I was impressed with foveated streamingon the Steam Frame, which, when you’re interacting with games streamed to the headset, renders what’s right in front of your eyes at the highest fidelity. I hope it’s just as good on the Vision Pro.
Apple announced visionOS’s foveated streaming as part of the first developer beta for visionOS 26.4.
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Despite developers being increasinglyskeptical of generative AI, “AI-driven authoring is our second major area of focus for 2026,” Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg said in earnings remarksreported on byGame Developer. The company plans to reveal more about the new prompting tools at the GDC Festival of Gaming in March.
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Should Anthropic get the designation, “anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company,”Axios says. The two sides have apparently been negotiating for months over how the military can use Anthropic’s AI tools.
Activisionremoved the game from app stores in May because it “did not meet our expectations.” If you’re still playing it, you’ll have a couple months until it’s offline for good.
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The triumphalist narrative of Minnesotans fighting back has taken hold nationally. But on the ground, the occupation is everywhere.
It’s a new feature showing up in the app as part of the first iOS 26.4 developer beta,as reported by9to5Mac.
The beta also includes anew “Playlist Playground” feature that uses Apple Intelligence to make a playlist from a text prompt.
Update: Added Playlist Playground details.
GameHub on Android let Sean Hollister playthe Steam version ofHollow Knight: Silksong on his phone, and GameSir says its new Mac app is“coming soon.” Gamesir claims the app will let you run Windows games natively, and it’s teasing a new controller, too.
St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican has partnered with Translated, an AI-assisted live-translation service, to make the liturgy available in 60 languages. Vatican visitors can use their smartphones to access audio and text translations via the web by scanning QR codes within the Basilica, no app or special equipment required.
It only took an on-camera F-bomb, accusations of cheating, and then video confirmation to get people to take interest. Is the Olympic sport that features frantic brooming having aHawk-Eye moment?
This project fromFlorida-based artist Gwak needs to make that horrid beep/buzzing noise when the phone rings for authenticity, but the yellowing and half-peeled sticker is -chef’s kiss-.
First cameJmail, thenJikipedia. The Epstein files have yielded a lot so far, but I didn’t expect a whole new tech ecosystem to be among them.
alectrem:
at this rate they’re going to make a whole platform of web services and IPO before all the files are even released
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A newSensor Tower report suggests the USDS takeover managed to retain most of its users despite abumpy start andconcerns with the new owners:
The average number of TikTok’s daily active users in the US remains around 95% of its usership compared to the week of Jan. 19-25.
In aletter sent to Congress Saturday, the Attorney General said that the DOJ hadreleased “all ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials in the possession of the Department’” in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. She also included a list of over300 people mentioned in the files.
The former host ofMorning Edition and current host ofLeft, Right & Center claims that Google illegally replicated his voice for its male podcast host in NotebookLM. Google denies this, but Greene (and many of his friends and colleagues) say the resemblance is “uncanny.” As theWashington Post reports:
To Greene, the resemblance of the AI voice to his own is uncanny — and the harm is deeper and more personal than just a missed chance to capitalize on his most recognizable asset.
“My voice is, like, the most important part of who I am,” Greene said.
Linuxgaming is getting better every day, but I’m not sure that anyone had this on their 2026 bingo card. Support forguitar controllers is being baked directly into theLinux 7.0 kernel, including some licensed models, such as the PDP RiffMaster and CRKD Gibson SG.
Enterprise customers, especially AI data centers, have alreadygobbled up the company’s capacity for 2026. At this point, consumer sales account for just 5 percent of the company’s revenue, so it’s no surprise WD is prioritizing high-capacity drives for data centers. What’s more, theyre alsodriving up prices. Tan told investors:
We’ve pretty much sold out for calendar year 26. We have firm POs with our top seven customers. And we’ve also established LTAs with two of them for calendar year 27 and one of them for calendar year 28.
What’s causing the issues or how widespread they are is unclear. We’ve been unable to reproduce the issue here, butDownDetector has seen a spike in reports over the past few hours. Users report that Gemini displays error messages orhangs after a prompt. We’ve reached out to Google for comment.
During the company’sQ4 earnings call, Gustav Söderström revealed that Spotify had fully embracedvibe coding. AI is coming for a lot of jobs, andsoftware developer is high on the list of those in danger. Still, it’s shocking that the top devs at Spotify haven’t written any code in 2026. PerBusiness Insider:
“When I speak to my most senior engineers — the best developers we have — they actually say that they haven’t written a single line of code since December… They actually only generate code and supervise it.” - Spotify CEO Gustav Söderström
On a frigid February evening, I went on four dates with AI companions at a pop-up dating café.
