• FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
• Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind
• Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up
• Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
• Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its "lead platform"
• "Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
• It's outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser
• Nintendo brings GBA-era Pokémon to the Switch, but not Switch Online subscribers

• Xbox head Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft
• Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: The Galaxy S26 and other devices that might launch on February 25
• Tunic publisher claims TikTok ran 'racist, sexist' AI ads for one of its games without its knowledge
• OpenAI will reportedly release an AI-powered smart speaker in 2027
• 13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools
• NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch to take astronauts around the Moon
• Ubisoft lays off 40 staff working on Splinter Cell remake, says game remains in development
• Engadget Podcast: Instagram on trial and the RAMaggedon rages on

• Northrop Grumman Solid Rocket Failure Grounds ULA Vulcan Delays Amazon LEO
• Supreme Court Tariffs
• KPop Clone Wars in South Korea, 6+ Million Copied Faces
• Grokipedia Has 1050 to 1450 Entries With Citations to Nextbigfuture
• NASA Declared the Butch and Suni Starliner Mission a $200+ Million Type A Mishap
• Anthropic Could Pass OpenAI in Revenue Runrate within 5 Months
• SLS Second Wet Rehearsal Going Well
• Making Clavius MoonBase for Real

• AI craze leaves only one Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU at MSRP — RTX 5060 Ti 8GB makes the final stand, as even the RTX 5050 falls
• The great Bench GPU retest begins — how we're testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still out
• U.S. Supreme Court shoots down President Trump’s tariffs — Consumer Technology Association hails 'victory for all Americans,' calls for swift refunds to retailers (update)
• Microsoft's Project Silica write-once storage could store terabytes of data for over 10,000 years — company explores two physical glass storage methods, so the glass-clad future of storage isn't
• Acer and Asus shut down support for PC and laptops in wake of patent dispute ruling, drivers and updates inaccessible to existing customers — German website finds a workaround (Update)
• Thermal Grizzly pops the top on Ryzen 7 9850X3Ds for you, charges eyewatering premium for delidded chips — almost double the cost of a regular model, comes with its own warranty
• AWS outages caused by AI coding bot blunder, report claims
• OpenAI's Sam Altman warns that firms are using 'AI washing' to mask layoffs across the globe — AI boss calls out corporate excuses while warning of 'palpable' job disruption ahead