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Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised(2026-02-22 20:00:09)

Russia's domestic intelligence agency claimed Saturday that Ukraine can obtain sensitive information from troops using the Telegram app on the front line, reports Bloomberg. The fact that the claims were made through Russia's state-operated news outlet RIA Novosti signals "tightening scrutiny over a...
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Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand(2026-02-22 15:00:04)

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or more objects at a time. This article in Science ...
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Has the AI Disruption Arrived - and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?(2026-02-22 10:00:10)

Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled "The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun," arguing that Anthropic's Claude Code "was always a helpful coding assistant, but in ...
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After 16 Years, 'Interim' CTO Finally Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon From the UK's Post Office(2026-02-22 05:00:09)

Besides running tech operations at the UK's Post Office, their interim CTO is also removing and replacing Fujitsu's Horizon system, which Computer Weekly describes as "the error-ridden software that a public inquiry linked to 13 people taking their own lives." After over 16 years of covering the s...
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DNA Technology Convicts a 64-Year-Old for Murdering a Teenager in 1982(2026-02-22 00:00:24)

"More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer," reports CNN: Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend's houseï in Cloverdale, California, on the evening of May 23, 1982. The next morning, ...
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