In its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Palantir says that increased regulation of immigration may impact the company’s ability to hire the talent it needs. At the same time, Palantir provides the technological infrastructure for the Trump administration’s mass deportation mission.

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Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal company documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good,” and scraping data from a variety of other online courses without permission to train its own AI, according to former Alpha School employees and internal company documents.

Notable because it’s the Wall Street Journal saying this, not some left-of-center publication.

Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to always be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media.

Moderna said it had held further discussions with regulators and announced that the agency would accept the company’s application for approval of its flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology.

Feb. 17, 2026

[a green flag with a leaf stands above an utopian green city with vegetation and clean energy] Greenists believe that the world should be a better place for green people, and everyone else too [an orange fascist-looking star in a gear logo stands above a bleak concrete city] Orangites believe that the world should only have orange people, and that all greens should be hung [an orange character speaks smugly, in a bedroom that contains an orangite logo and a greenist/orangite flag] Me? I’m a greenist-orangite, why do you ask?

The raids allegedly began in response to a recent ProPublica article featuring letters and drawings from children inside the San Antonio-area immigrant detention site.

https://apnews.com/article/meta-tiktok-snap-discord-zuckerberg-testify-senate-00754a6bea92aaad62585ed55f219932

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night called CBS’s denial of his claim that it blocked the broadcast of his interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico “crap” — and urged the network and its parent, Paramount Skydance, to stand up to the “bullies” in the Trump administration.

Documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft’s cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images.

More than a year after a 33-year-old woman froze to death on Austria’s highest mountain, her boyfriend goes on trial on Thursday accused of gross negligent manslaughter.

“They lied to my dad that they needed help with their car,” his son said. “My dad’s a generous guy, he’s willing to help anybody.”

AT THE MILAN CORTINA 2026 Winter Olympics, competing under the American banner has put some athletes at odds with their own government, transforming them — in a handful of candid remarks — from cereal-box patriots into political liabilities swiftly pilloried by the conservative establishment.

A parent named Nancy said that she was concerned that teenagers could be ‘susceptible to influence’ at the TPUSA event

https://namtao.com/@noboilerplate/116085772162424749

I checked, this is legit: https://jmail.world/?batches=all&after=2001-09-01&before=2001-09-30

This time in Poland. The USA is firmly on the path of Fascism on so many levels, and it’s all to feed USA MAGA with false information. The winner of all bottom-of-the-barrel ambassadors is, of course, Pete Hoekstra, who has managed to insult both his Canadian ánd Dutch guest countries. https://www.thedailyscrumnews.com/recall-u-s-ambassador-pete-hoekstra-its-time-for-him-to-leave-canada/

Well, well, well … if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada is set to be tried starting Tuesday on charges of corruptly concealing a document or record and conspiracy to conceal documents. He’s been in custody since July and in federal prison since October (save for a brief accidental release before Thanksgiving, during which he spoke to The Intercept). He and his codefendants were recently transferred to county jail to await trial. Supporters report that they’ve been placed in solitary confinement and are dealing with other horrid conditions.

Canada will step up support to Ukraine’s energy sector, working with industry to supply oil and gas equipment on favourable terms and boost renewable energy investments, the two governments said on Wednesday.

spoilerOl’ Yellow Eyes Is Back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%27_Yellow_Eyes_Is_Back https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1T3N4t2kUgR_QdYwh8LurqZa9kNtfucp The song “It’s a Sin (to Tell a Lie)” uses LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, and Patrick Stewart as backup singers, called the “Sunspots"

Notable because this is a right-wing news outlet suddenly saying what was considered so far left that mainstream news would not say it.

ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.

On Tuesday afternoon, as public interest in the story grew, CBS issued a written statement insisting that Colbert was not prohibited from airing the Talarico interview. Rather, the network said the CBS lawyers “provided legal guidance,” which included “options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled.”

GREECE is working with four other European countries to set up deportation centres beyond their borders, “preferably in Africa,” Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said today.

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The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its shocking refusal to consider Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine for approval.

A New Jersey Catholic diocese this week agreed to a $180 million settlement to resolve allegations of clergy sexual abuse, a figure far exceeding agreements in some large dioceses but still dwarfed by other massive settlements.

There were once so many children at Frisha Moore’s Elk Grove preschool that families filled up the waitlist. Now, one of her playgrounds and two classrooms sit empty because one key group of kids has stopped coming.

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Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes was a 6 issue miniseries from 2011-2012.

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Denver Health said the information applied only to people who are not lawfully residing in the U.S and are enrolled in a program called Emergency Medicaid or pregnant and enrolled in Medicaid through Cover All Coloradans.

[This is an op-ed by Lihsin Liu, Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vancouver, Taiwan’s de facto consul general in Vancouver, Canada.]

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Environmental and health groups sued the E.P.A. over its elimination of the endangerment finding. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court.