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Archive: February 20th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Sibasis Padhi

Sibasis Padhi@sibasispadhi

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Meet the Contest Winner: Fintech Architect Sibasis Padhi on Building Resilient Financial Systems

Min Read2 hours Ago

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories@astoundingstories

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When Family Wealth Becomes a Prison

Min Read2 hours Ago

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories@astoundingstories

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A Life of Luxury Cannot Heal a Yearning Soul

Min Read4 hours Ago

CyberNewswire

CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

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AI Under Control: Link11 Launches AI Management Dashboard for Clean Traffic

Min Read8 hours Ago

Leon Acosta

Leon Acosta@leonacosta

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Why I Built a Web of Trust Browser Extension for Nostr

Min Read12 hours Ago

ZEX MEDIA

ZEX MEDIA@zexprwire

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How Inframarkets Is Redefining Energy Hedging for Institutional Participants

Min Read12 hours Ago

Varun Gajjala

Varun Gajjala@varunmusings

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A Practical Guide to Temporal: What It Does, How It Compares, and When to Use It

Min Read12 hours Ago

Bohdan Snisar

Bohdan Snisar@b128s

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The AI Seduction That Breaks Engineering Instincts

Min Read12 hours Ago

Rie | DriftLens team!

Rie | DriftLens team!@riedriftlens

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A Build Post-Mortem: Where “Ethical AI” Breaks in Practice

Min Read12 hours Ago

Swagat Behera

Swagat Behera@swagatwrites

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Can Technology Really Save the Environment—or Is It Making Us Feel Less Responsible?

Min Read12 hours Ago

Oleg Danyliuk

Oleg Danyliuk@olegdanyliuk

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How to Integrate AI Agents into Your Business Without Disrupting Operations

Min Read12 hours Ago

Tyler McKnight

Tyler McKnight@tylermcknight

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How $10/Day Quietly Becomes $21,750 While You Scroll Through “Signals”

Min Read12 hours Ago

Omotayo

Omotayo@omotayojude

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The Sound of Data: Why Your Voice is the Hardest Problem in AI

Min Read13 hours Ago

Christopher Ariza

Christopher Ariza@flexatone

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CrowdStrike Can Manipulate Your Clock, And Other Ways Cybersecurity Vendors Ignore Least Privilege

Min Read13 hours Ago

Paolo Perrone

Paolo Perrone@paoloap

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7 Essential AI Engineering Libraries to Replace Boilerplate

Min Read13 hours Ago

Valery Meshkov

Valery Meshkov@meshkov

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How I Productized Legal Advice Into a Scalable Marketplace

Min Read13 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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A 196B Model That Runs Like 11B: The Step 3.5 Flash Bet

Min Read13 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Refocus Any Photo After the Shot With genfocus/all-in-focus

Min Read13 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Why RL Feedback Fails Language Models (And What ERL Fixes)

Min Read13 hours Ago

Tech Roasts

Tech Roasts@techroasts

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Smart Trading Under Fire: Portfolio Defense Against Market Crashes

Min Read13 hours Ago

Krishna dutt panchagnula

Krishna dutt panchagnula@krishnaduttpanchagnula

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Stop Throwing AI at Broken Systems: Fix Your Engineering Culture First

Min Read13 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Stop Predicting Pixels: This AI “World Model” Predicts Your UI as Code

Min Read13 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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MiniMax-M2.5 Is an “Agentic” Monster—and It’s Gunning for Your Workflow

Min Read13 hours Ago

Mikhail Fedorov

Mikhail Fedorov@teopa

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The Iron Wall of Robotics: Why Physics Will Defeat AI Hype

Min Read14 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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AIRS-Bench vs. AI Hype: Can Agents Actually Do Science?

Min Read14 hours Ago

Melissa

Melissa@melissaindia

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Selling Master Data Management to Leadership: 6 Proven Strategies

Min Read14 hours Ago

Ilya Podoynitsyn

Ilya Podoynitsyn@ilyapodoynitsyn

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Modular Financial Infrastructure: The End of Monolithic Solutions and Vendor Lock-In

Min Read14 hours Ago

Himant Goyal

Himant Goyal@himantgoyal

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How Consumption Economy Works in a SaaS Business

Min Read14 hours Ago

Nica Furs

Nica Furs@nicafurs

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The Great Cognitive Atrophy: Is AI Making You Stupid?

Min Read14 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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The Fix for Reasoning RL’s Data Problem: Recombine It

Min Read14 hours Ago

Nica Furs

Nica Furs@nicafurs

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Trafficmind’s Architecture Explained: Everything You Need to Know

Min Read14 hours Ago

Dan Layfield

Dan Layfield@dlayf

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Single-Click Checkout Is a Moat

Min Read15 hours Ago

Dan Layfield

Dan Layfield@dlayf

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Annual Plans as a Churn-reduction Lever

Min Read15 hours Ago