20 Feb 2026

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It's outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser

"The king has abdicated his throne. A new line is coming. A new line of unsullied kings."

20 Feb 2026 4:40pm GMT

Pokémon Red and Green's GBA remakes are getting re-released on Switch for $20 a pop

Games appear to be mostly unmodified ports of the well-regarded remakes.

20 Feb 2026 4:30pm GMT

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ProtonUp-Qt v2.15 Adds dwproton and Fixes Lutris Wine-GE Directory

ProtonUp-Qt v2.15 Adds dwproton and Fixes Lutris Wine-GE Directory

ProtonUp-Qt 2.15 introduces dwproton support, fixes Kron4ek amd64/wow64 selection, and corrects the GE-Proton install path for Lutris users.

20 Feb 2026 4:21pm GMT

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20 Feb 2026 4:13pm GMT

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Email Blunder Exposes $90 Billion Russian Oil Smuggling Ring

schwit1 writes: An IT blunder has revealed an apparent smuggling ring that has moved at least $90bn of Russian oil and is playing a central role in funding the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. Financial Times has identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. The network was discovered because they all share a single private email server. The report adds: The FT was able to identify 442 web domains whose public registrations show they all use a single private server for their email, "mx.phoenixtrading.ltd," showing that they share back-office functions. The FT was then able to identify companies by comparing the names in the domain to those of entities that appear in Russian and Indian customs records as involved in carrying Russian oil.

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20 Feb 2026 4:05pm GMT

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20 Feb 2026 3:44pm GMT

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Supreme Court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed

Economists estimated more than $175 billion may need to be refunded.

20 Feb 2026 3:37pm GMT

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US Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Global Tariffs

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, rejecting one of his most contentious assertions of his authority in a ruling with major implications for the global economy. From a report: The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld a lower court's decision that the Republican president's use of this 1977 law exceeded his authority. The court ruled that the Trump administration's interpretation that the law at issue - the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA - grants Trump the power he claims to impose tariffs would intrude on the powers of Congress and violate a legal principle called the "major questions" doctrine. The doctrine, embraced by the conservative justices, requires actions by the government's executive branch of "vast economic and political significance" to be clearly authorized by Congress. The court used the doctrine to stymie some of Democratic former President Joe Biden's key executive actions.

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20 Feb 2026 3:29pm GMT

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Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

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20 Feb 2026 3:27pm GMT

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Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assistants. Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter. The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to "delete and recreate the environment." Amazon posted an internal postmortem about the "outage" of the AWS system, which lets customers explore the costs of its services. Multiple Amazon employees told the FT that this was the second occasion in recent months in which one of the group's AI tools had been at the centre of a service disruption.

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20 Feb 2026 2:40pm GMT

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Transmission 4.1.1 BitTorrent Client Released With Performance Improvements

Transmission 4.1.1 BitTorrent Client Released With Performance Improvements

Transmission 4.1.1 fixes over 20 bugs from version 4.1 and brings performance improvements to all platforms.

20 Feb 2026 7:43am GMT

Calibre 9.3 E-Book Manager Released with KEPUB Improvements

Calibre 9.3 E-Book Manager Released with KEPUB Improvements

Calibre 9.3 improves KEPUB cover handling, fixes Windows issues, addresses two CVEs, and resolves multiple regressions.

20 Feb 2026 6:40am GMT