Welcome to today’s tech whirlwind for 2026/02/12: a day where AI is rewriting everything from warfare to workdays. Governments and Big Tech are doubling down on #surveillance, from @CBP’s face recognition targeting to Ring’s dog-hunt AI and @Google Nest footage that never quite disappears, while @TikTok pixels follow you across the web even if you never installed the app. On the enterprise front, #AI is making employees work harder and longer, sparking #QuitGPT activism just as OpenAI and Anthropic race to ship powerful agentic coding models and ad-supported chatbots. Cyber risks are rising too, with critical #Windows zero-days, a weaponized Notepad, and memory poisoning attacks on recommendation engines. Yet innovation is soaring: Ukraine’s low cost #Sunray laser air defense, unsinkable superhydrophobic metals, SK Hynix’s efficient #HBF AI chips, and AI that decodes ancient Roman mysteries. It is a high stakes, high velocity snapshot of how fast the future is arriving. …
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