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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-02-22.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ NASA's Artemis II moon mission gets rolled back to the garage (literally)
▸ Microsoft's new gaming chief promises a future without 'endless AI slop'
▸ Sam Altman argues that humans are basically just inefficient GPUs
Google's budget-friendly option arrives with a $100 gift card for early adopters. It's the phone for people who want AI features without selling a kidney.
The audio plugin giant adds 'EFX Ambient' and 'Pitch Shifter-910' to its arsenal. Perfect for making your bedroom pop demos sound like they were recorded in a cathedral.
TechCrunch lists the new marketplaces iPhone users in Europe can finally access. Apple's walled garden is looking more like a picket fence these days.
The 'America PAC' gets slapped for election law violations. Irony is dead, long live irony.
A fascinating postmortem on how a single botnet accidentally nuked the I2P anonymity network. It turns out decentralized networks are only as strong as their weakest flood limit.
A developer breaks down how they use Claude Code by strictly separating 'planning' from 'execution'. If you're just pasting error logs into the chat window, you're doing it wrong.
Ars Technica dives into a new study on how rocket launches are turning the upper atmosphere into an industrial dumping ground. We might reach Mars, but we'll ruin the view on the way out.
A compelling argument for why developers are drifting back to the stability of FreeBSD. Sometimes the bleeding edge cuts a little too deep.
OpenAI's CEO defends AI's massive power consumption by pointing out that biological intelligence isn't exactly carbon neutral. A bold pivot to 'whataboutism' on a planetary scale.
A beautiful engineering project dedicated to finding Japanese woodblock prints. A reminder that search can be used for art, not just SEO spam.
TechCrunch reviews a monster SUV that weighs as much as two rhinos. It's the perfect vehicle for grocery runs, assuming your grocery store is in a war zone.
After a 'successful' fueling test, Artemis II is heading back to the hangar for repairs. Space is hard, but parking is harder.