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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-02-23.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ Uber pivots from building robotaxis to managing everyone else's fleets
▸ Samsung's Galaxy S26 gets a dedicated 'Hey Plex' voice command
▸ One man accidentally gained control of 7,000 robot vacuums (the uprising begins)
After burning cash trying to build its own autonomous vehicles, Uber is officially pivoting to being the middleman. They're launching a support project to help *other* AV companies manage their fleets, proving once again that selling shovels is safer than digging for gold.
In a move that surely annoys Google, Samsung is integrating Perplexity directly into the Galaxy S26. You can now summon the answer engine with a voice command, further fragmenting the 'who is actually listening to me?' landscape.
The dictation app that claims to actually understand you has finally crossed the OS divide. After launching on Mac and iOS, Wispr Flow is now on Android, giving green bubble users a chance to stop typing with their thumbs.
Cupertino has sent out invites for a mysterious event next week. It's not a standard keynote, which means it's either a very expensive headset demo or they're finally explaining what Siri is supposed to do.
While Neuralink gets the flashy headlines, China's Brain-Computer Interface industry is rapidly moving from research to commercialization. With heavy state backing and fewer regulatory speed bumps, they're racing to make mind-controlled tech a consumer reality.
Quantonation Ventures just closed a $260M fund dedicated to quantum and physics-based startups. It's a massive bet that we're finally moving past the 'cool science experiment' phase and into the 'actually useful' phase of quantum computing.
The world's largest democracy is hosting a massive AI summit, drawing execs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA. It's a clear signal that India intends to be a major player, not just a market, in the global AI infrastructure race.
A new tool combines the reverse-engineering power of Ghidra with AI to sniff out backdoors in binary files. They tested it by hiding backdoors in 40MB binaries, and the results are promising for anyone paranoid about supply chain attacks.
An Alphabet spinoff is deploying 'invisible beams of light' to transmit data at 25Gbps across cities. It's like fiber optics without the digging, provided a bird doesn't fly directly through the beam.
The Volatility Foundation has updated its framework for extracting digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM). If you're doing incident response or malware analysis, this is likely already in your toolkit.
A security researcher accidentally gained control of 7,000 Ecovacs robot vacuums due to a vulnerability. He didn't order them to attack, but the fact that he *could* have created a dust-sucking botnet is terrifyingly hilarious.
Red Bull Media House created a magazine with a flexible display insert that lets you play Tetris. It's the most over-engineered piece of print media in history, and I want one immediately.