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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-02-11.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ Elon Musk pitches a lunar factory to 'catapult' satellites while half of xAI's founders quit.
▸ Windows Notepad gets a critical RCE vulnerability because apparently nothing is simple anymore.
▸ T-Mobile brings real-time translation to phone calls without needing an app.
The S26 lineup is arriving just before Mobile World Congress. Leaks suggest modest hardware upgrades, so prepare to hear the words 'AI integration' about 400 times in one hour.
You can now prompt an AI to build your grocery list or upload photos of your fridge to see what you're missing. Finally, a robot to judge my lack of vegetables.
The 2027 Highlander is a three-row electric SUV with 320 miles of range. It's the first Toyota EV assembled in America, proving the legacy giant is finally taking the plug seriously.
Google's parent company is selling bonds that mature in 2126 to fund AI investments. If Skynet takes over by then, do we still have to pay the interest?
In a classic Musk dichotomy, Elon is pitching a lunar factory to 'catapult' satellites into orbit to avoid Earth's gravity well. Meanwhile, back on Earth, half of xAI's founding team has resigned just as the company faces IPO scrutiny. Rocket science might actually be easier than retention.
GreyNoise reports a massive drop in Telnet traffic, marking the silent end of an era for the insecure protocol. It’s been a long time coming, but seeing the graphs flatline is like watching a digital dinosaur finally go extinct.
Amazon is reportedly building a pipeline for media publishers to license their content directly to AI companies. It's essentially a farmer's market, but instead of organic kale, they're selling the sum of human knowledge to LLMs.
CVE-2026-20841 reveals a Remote Code Execution flaw in... Notepad. Yes, the text editor. If you needed another reason to switch to Vim or VS Code, 'opening a text file might hack my PC' is a pretty good one.
A new analysis found 287 Chrome extensions tracking browsing data for millions of users. It's a grim reminder that if an extension is free, you (and your history) are definitely the product.
A developer taught GPT-OSS-120B to 'see' by using OpenCV to crop objects and send them to Google Lens. It's a clever, API-key-free way to add vision capabilities to local text-only models.
A Czech ice dancing duo skated to AI-generated music, only to find out the model had plagiarized existing work. The judges gave them points for style, but zero for copyright compliance.
Ring aired an ad about a 'Search Party' feature that looked a little too much like a neighborhood surveillance state. The internet, predictably, was not amused.