🔬 Scientists have found a way to turn cancer’s own immune bodyguards into weapons against its

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine have developed an experimental immunotherapy that tackles metastatic cancer. Rather than attacking cancer cells themselves, the treatment focuses on the cells that surround and shield them. By disabling these protectors, the treatment opens tumors to an immune attack, allowing the body’s defenses to enter and destroy the cancer.

The therapy was tested in aggressive preclinical models of metastatic ovarian and lung cancer, and the results point to a potential new strategy for treating advanced solid tumors. The researchers caution that studies in humans are still needed to determine whether the therapy will be safe and effective for patients. This establishes a new way to treat cancer and could form the basis of future CAR-T therapies.

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🤖 Chip startup Taalas raises $169 million to help build AI chips to take on Nvidia

Toronto-based chip startup Taalas said it had raised $169 million and has developed a chip capable of running AI applications faster and more cheaply than conventional approaches. Taalas has raised a total of $219 million from investors such as Quiet Capital, Fidelity and Pierre Lamond, a chip industry venture capitalist. Taalas' announcement arrives weeks after Nvidia's, opens new tab deal to license intellectual property from chip startup Groq for $20 billion.

Taalas' approach to chip design involves printing portions of an AI model onto a piece of silicon, effectively producing a custom chip suited for specific models such as a small version of Meta's Llama model. The customized silicon is paired with large amounts of speedy but costly on-chip memory called static random-access memory (SRAM), which is similar to Groq's design.

It takes roughly 6 months to fabricate an AI processor such as Nvidia's Blackwell. Taalas said it can produce chips capable of running less sophisticated models now and has plans to build a processor capable of deploying a cutting-edge model, such as GPT-5.2, by the end of this year.

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🇨🇳 China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine — it generated enough energy to power a house for 2 weeks

A Chinese energy firm has successfully tested an experimental blimp-like wind turbine capable of generating energy in the skies above cities and inland communities.

Developed by Beijing Linyi Yunchuan Energy Technology, the S2000 airborne wind energy system (AWES) is a large, helium-filled airship containing 12 wind turbines. The craft ascends thousands of feet into the air to harness the stable wind speeds at higher altitudes, which spin the turbines and generate electricity. This is then sent down the tethering cable to the ground below, where it can enter the grid.

In its test flight, the manufacturers flew the S2000 at an altitude of 6,560 feet (2,000 meters) above Sichuan Province, generating 385 kilowatt-hours of electricity. This is enough to power the average U.S. household for approximately 13.3 days, per usage figures provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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🇮🇳🇧🇷India, Brazil sign mining pact as Modi targets $20 billion trade in five years

India signed a pact with Brazil to strengthen trade ties, focusing on mining and minerals. The agreement was signed in the presence of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in New Delhi. Modi expressed a goal to boost bilateral trade from $15 billion to over $20 billion in 5 years.

Brazil is among the world's top producers of iron ore and holds large reserves of minerals critical to steelmaking. The cooperation will focus on attracting investment in exploration, mining and steel sector infrastructure. Both countries will also work closely in areas such as technology, innovation, digital public infrastructure, AI, semiconductors.

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💸 Google spending $15 billion to build AI in India, plans a US-India sea cable link

At India AI Impact Summit, Google has announced the America-India Connect initiative which will deliver new strategic fiber-optic routes to increase the reach, reliability and resilience of digital connectivity between the U.S., India and multiple locations across the Southern Hemisphere.

The initiative involves a five-year, $15 billion investment in India’s digital infrastructure. As part of this project, Google will establish a new international subsea landing station in Visakhapatnam on India’s east coast, creating an additional entry point into its global network. From there, 3 new subsea routes are planned to link India with Singapore, South Africa and Australia. The company will also add 4 terrestrial fibre routes designed to improve connectivity between India, the US and locations across the Southern Hemisphere.

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💻 Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) develops real-time qubit monitoring system, accelerating path to stable quantum computers

Researchers at the NBI t the University of Copenhagen have developed a real-time monitoring system that tracks the state of quantum bits (qubits) approximately 100 times faster than previous methods. Earlier it took up to a minute to characterize a qubit’s performance.

The NBI system overcomes this hurdle with an adaptive measurement technology built on a high-speed Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) controller. The technology uses a commercially available OPX1000 controller from Quantum Machines, which is programmed in a Python-like language, making it accessible to research groups worldwide. The system employs a Bayesian model, which updates its estimate of the qubit’s relaxation rate after each measurement.

The new technique can identify when a qubit’s performance degrades in milliseconds, a crucial insight for building fault-tolerant quantum machines.

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⚡ Trump to hike global tariffs to 15% from 10%, ‘effective immediately’

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🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California carrying 25 Starlink satellites

SpaceX has once again demonstrated its relentless launch cadence, sending 25 new Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit this morning from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off in the early hours of February 21, 2026, continuing the steady drumbeat of missions that have built Starlink into the world's largest satellite internet constellation.

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🇮🇳 India joins America-led Pax Silica supply chain effort to build semiconductor talent

India has officially become a member of Pax Silica, a large-scale international initiative led by the U.S. aimed at securing supply chains for critical technologies. The agreement was signed in Delhi during the AI Impact Summit, marking a pivotal moment in India’s technology ambitions. India is now the 12th country in the alliance, which already includes the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Australia, and several other nations.

India’s IT Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, stated that several semiconductor plants are already under construction in the country. The government is backing this push with ambitious programs like the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0. Furthermore, India plans to train approximately one million specialists for the industry to build a sustainable talent pipeline.

By joining Pax Silica, India gains access to critical technology, capital, and secure markets, which will accelerate its ambition to become a global semiconductor hub.

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🤖 OpenAI developing AI devices including smart speaker

OpenAI has assembled a team of more than 200 people to develop a family of AI-powered devices, including a smart speaker, smart glasses, and a smart lamp. The ChatGPT-powered smart speaker will be the first device OpenAI launches, with an expected price range of $200 to $300. The device will feature a camera that allows it to gather information about users and their surroundings. The speaker would not ship until February 2027 at the earliest. The smart glasses likely would not be ready for mass production until 2028.

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🇺🇸 Trump approves DC emergency declaration over Potomac sewage spill

President Trump on Saturday approved Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) request for federal disaster assistance as the nation’s capital works to clean-up the Potomac River following a sewer line collapse. Bowser also reached out to Trump directly asking him to declare a major disaster and to issue 100% reimbursement from the federal government for costs incurred by the district and the involved utility company DC Water.

A wastewater spill into the Potomac River that began last month now appears to be one of the largest in American history. DC Water, a local water utility, said that part of a sewer system known as the Potomac Interceptor collapsed along the Clara Barton Parkway on Jan. 19.

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💻 New chip-fabrication method creates 'twin' fingerprints for direct authentication

Just like each person has unique fingerprints, every CMOS chip has a distinctive "fingerprint" caused by tiny, random manufacturing variations. These differences form a physical unclonable function (PUF), which is used to authenticate devices. However, traditional schemes require storage on external servers, which creates vulnerabilities and complicates security.

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a manufacturing method that enables secure, fingerprint-based authentication, without the need to store secret information outside the chip. To enable a twin PUF, the MIT researchers fabricate 2 pairs of transistors along the edge of two chips before they are diced to separate them. By connecting the transistors with metal layers, they create paired structures that have correlated breakdown states. In this way, they enable a unique PUF to be shared by each pair of transistors.

The main advantage is that sensitive data never leaves the chip. Two devices can directly authenticate each other without accessing a server or transmitting keys over the network. The method is compatible with standard CMOS fabrication, does not require expensive materials and is suitable for mass adoption.

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🇬🇱 Trump says he is sending a hospital ship to Greenland

Trump sent a floating hospital to Greenland, which he announced on Truth Social. According to the American leader, the ship is already heading to the island. He described the purpose of the mission as providing medical assistance to the local population.

Trump's post came hours after Denmark's Joint Arctic Command said it had evacuated a crew member who required urgent medical treatment from a U.S. submarine in Greenland's waters, seven nautical miles outside of Greenland's capital, Nuuk.

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🌍 Omlet in space: Europe has a bold plan to save Earth from raining debris

The European Space Agency (ESA) is designing a ground-based laser system called Omlet to nudge space debris away from satellites. This project aims to prevent orbital collisions without requiring satellites to perform fuel-heavy manoeuvres.

The system relies on a high-power laser platform integrated with precision pointing systems and adaptive optics. These optics are crucial for correcting the blurring effect of Earth’s atmosphere, ensuring the laser beam stays concentrated on its target hundreds of kilometres away. ESA is already using its Izana laser ranging station in Tenerife, Spain to detect and track objects with millimetre precision.

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💻 Linux Kernel 7.0 breathes new life into decade-old AMD GPUs

As the development of Linux Kernel 7.0 moves into its final bug-fixing stage, a significant portion of the latest patches focuses on the AMDGPU driver. The update introduces robust support for “veteran” graphics cards based on the GCN 1.0 and 1.1 architectures, some of which are more than a decade old.

Valve’s engineer Timur Krisztóf made a contribution in improving the AMDGPU driver to a point where it could replace the legacy Radeon DRM driver for older GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs. The engineer resolved a persistent “black screen” bug that occurred when using analog outputs like D-Sub (VGA) on cards such as the Radeon HD 7790.

Also AMD engineer Alex Deucher contributed crucial patches for graphics cards like the Radeon Pro 560 found in older MacBook Pro models. These fixes address persistent issues such as cursor flickering and driver errors when operating in the GNOME desktop environment on the Wayland protocol.

By ensuring a wider range of GPUs are well-supported, Valve expands the potential user base for Steam on Linux and its SteamOS. The continued development for GCN 1.0/1.1 hardware in Linux Kernel 7.0 demonstrates the power of the open-source model to extend the lifespan of technology. It ensures that users are not forced into unnecessary hardware upgrades.

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⚡ Armed man shot, killed after entering perimeter at Trump's Mar-a-Lago

Authorities fatally shot a man who was carrying a shotgun and a gas cannister as he tried to enter President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida early Sunday morning, the Secret Service said. Trump was at the White House at the time of the incident.

“Two Secret Service agents confronted a white male who was carrying a gas can and a shotgun,” Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw said. “He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with him, at which time he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position.”

Officials are withholding the man’s name pending identification of his family. The FBI is investigating the incident.

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🔥 XRP supporters say Elon Musk is making a big statement about XRP and XLM

Crypto commentator Wilberforce Theophilus recently noted that members of the XRP community see visual parallels between the logos of XRP and XLM and the branding of X and xAI. Some supporters interpret these similarities as a subtle signal from Elon Musk, although no official statements support that conclusion.

Supporters highlight the curved “X” in XRP’s logo and compare it to the bold, angular “X” that Musk introduced after rebranding Twitter to X. Others point to Stellar’s circular emblem with a diagonal slash and note its resemblance to Grok’s orbital-style mark under xAI. These comparisons circulate widely, often paired with emojis that imply secrecy or undisclosed collaboration.

Musk continues building financial capabilities within X, and blockchain-based rails remain technically plausible for global payments. XRP and XLM both specialize in cross-border value transfer and institutional liquidity solutions. Those characteristics make them logical candidates in theory. 🤔

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