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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-02-14.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ DJI's new robot vacuum gets hacked immediately, turning into a spy drone.
▸ GitHub launches Agentic Workflows to automate your repo's grunt work.
▸ Airbnb admits one-third of its support tickets are now handled by AI.
GitHub is rolling out agents to handle your repository chores—triage, documentation, and code quality checks. Finally, a bot to close all those 'wontfix' issues you've been ignoring.
Named after the process of shedding skin, this Rust library enables zero-downtime upgrades for network services. It's been protecting millions of connections internally, and now it's yours.
Carl Pei's transparent tech brand is planting a flag with a two-story retail space. Expect lots of LEDs, industrial design, and people asking if the phone glows when it rings.
The Zig devlog just dropped a juicy update for systems programmers. The standard library now has implementations for Linux's io_uring and Apple's Grand Central Dispatch.
DJI launched a robot vacuum that doubles as a security drone, but it turns out the security part was optional. A hacker managed to remote control thousands of them using a PS5 controller because the MQTT implementation was wide open. It cleans your floors and airs your dirty laundry.
CEO Brian Chesky says AI now handles a third of support tickets in North America. The plan is to bake LLMs into everything, moving from a search bar to an app that 'knows you.' Hopefully, it knows you better than their current search algorithm, which still thinks a tent in a backyard is a 'luxury stay.'
In a bizarre turn of events, Ars Technica had to pull a story after it included fabricated quotes from a Matplotlib maintainer. It's a messy reminder that even top-tier tech journalism isn't immune to hallucination—or just bad reporting.
A developer built a tool to embed binary data into video pixels, effectively using YouTube as unlimited cloud storage. Google engineers are undoubtedly screaming into their pillows right now.
A neat 'Show HN' project that generates procedural 3D planets from text descriptions. It's not going to replace Unreal Engine 6 yet, but it's a fun look at generative 3D assets.
Astronomers are finally filling in the blanks of our solar system's outer frontier. Next-gen telescopes are finding objects that challenge our understanding of how the solar system formed.
Even if you pay off your phone in full, Verizon is now enforcing a 35-day waiting period before unlocking it. Because nothing says 'we value you' like holding your device hostage for a month.
The city is deploying AI-powered cameras on buses to automatically ticket cars parked in bike lanes. It's the rise of the machines, but at least this time they're fighting for cyclists.