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WEDNESDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2026, 14:40

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ASML Unveils EUV Light Source Advance That Could Yield 50% More Chips By 2030

Monday at 23:57 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip making machine to turn out up to 50% more chips by decade’s end, to help retain the Dutch company’s edge over emerging U.S. and Chinese rivals. ASML is the world’s only maker of commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines, a...

IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization

Monday at 23:10 PM, via Slashdot

IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an estimated 95% of ATM transactions in the United States and runs on the kind of mainframe systems IBM has sold for generations. Anthropic said...

Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘More Competent Who Isn’t Afraid of Numbers Past the Teens’ Will Take Over Linux One Day

Monday at 21:36 PM, via Slashdot

Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel. From a report: “You all know the drill by now: two weeks have passed, and the kernel merge window is closed,” he wrote in the post announcing Linux 7.0 rc1. “We have a new major number purely because I’m easily confused and not...

Advanced Allocation Curriculum Introduced by Summit Valtorin Management Academy to Address Idiosyncratic Risks Amidst 2026 Macro Volatility

Monday at 21:22 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, USA — As the global financial landscape navigates the persistent divergence of central bank interest rate policies and heavily concentrated equity market valuations in early 2026, institutional investors face unprecedented challenges in isolating alpha from macro-driven beta. Against this backdrop of heightened structural uncertainty and shifting yield curves, Summit Valtorin...

Dr. Babatunde Bello Reveals 3 Vital Asset Allocation Strategies to Navigate Global Market Volatility and Inflation Shocks in 2026

Monday at 21:16 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, USA  — Based on recent market tracking from Reuters Markets and Yahoo Finance, global sovereign bond yields have surged over the past 48 hours, driven by stubbornly high core inflation metrics and shifting expectations surrounding the Federal Reserve’s rate cut trajectory. Amidst this escalating macroeconomic turbulence, Dr. Babatunde Bello, B.A., M.Fin (Founder and […]

7 Strategic Imperatives: How Dr. Bamidele Alakija Navigates the 2026 Macro Risk Landscape

Monday at 21:09 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, USA — Recent data published across major financial portals, including Reuters Markets and Yahoo Finance, indicates a profound shift in global liquidity, driven by fluctuating inflation metrics and recalibrated central bank rate expectations. As emerging markets brace for the subsequent wave of capital reallocation, institutional frameworks are becoming the ultimate differentiator...

‘How Many AIs Does It Take To Read a PDF?’

Monday at 20:50 PM, via Slashdot

Despite AI’s progress in building complex software, the ubiquitous PDF remains something of a grand challenge — a format Adobe developed in the early 1990s to preserve the precise visual appearance of documents. PDFs consist of character codes, coordinates, and rendering instructions rather than logically ordered text, and even state-of-the-art models asked to extract information from them will...

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude

Monday at 20:10 PM, via Slashdot

U.S. artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic said three Chinese AI companies set up more than 24,000 fraudulent accounts with its Claude AI model to help their own systems catch up. From a report: The three companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — prompted Claude more than 16 million times, siphoning information from Anthropic’s system to train and improve their own products, Anthropic...

Spar rethinks SAP roll-out

Monday at 20:01 PM, via TechCentral

Spar is separating its SAP finance migration from warehouse operations amid a lawsuit from a major franchisee.

PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump

Monday at 18:48 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: PayPal, the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped out almost half of its value, according to people familiar with the matter. The San Jose, California-based company has fielded meetings with banks amid unsolicited interest from suitors, the people said. At least one large rival is looking at...

Study reveals whistling secret of horses’ whinny

Monday at 18:36 PM, via The Guardian

Scientists have discovered source of neigh’s unique combination of high- and low-pitched sounds

Horses whinny to find new friends, greet old ones and celebrate happy moments like feeding time.

How exactly horses produce that distinctive sound – also called a neigh – has long eluded scientists.

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