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16 Feb 2026 11:40pm GMT

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16 Feb 2026 10:53pm GMT

Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second-quarter earnings call, a stark sign of how aggressively hyperscalers are locking down storage supply to feed their AI infrastructure buildouts. The company has firm purchase orders from its top seven customers and has signed long-term agreements stretching into 2027 and 2028 that cover both exabyte volumes and pricing. Cloud revenue now accounts for 89% of Western Digital's total, according to the company's VP of Investor Relations, while consumer revenue has shrunk to just 5%.

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16 Feb 2026 10:01pm GMT

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16 Feb 2026 9:48pm GMT

Human software engineers and AI are currently in a "centaur phase" -- a reference to the mythical half-human, half-horse creature, where the combination outperforms either working alone -- but the window may be "very brief," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast. He drew on chess as precedent: 15 to 20 years ago, a human checking AI's moves could beat a standalone AI or human, but machines have since surpassed that arrangement entirely. Amodei said the same transition would play out in software engineering, and warned that entry-level white-collar disruption is "happening over low single-digit numbers of years."

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16 Feb 2026 9:00pm GMT

Apple has not confirmed whether you'll be able to watch live, but Ars will bring you the news.

16 Feb 2026 8:30pm GMT

Employee allegedly exploited Best Buy's discount system for months.

16 Feb 2026 8:10pm GMT

New Delhi's air quality index averaged 349 in December and 307 in January -- levels the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies as hazardous -- and the months-long smog season that forces more than 30 million residents to endure respiratory illness has this year sparked something new: public protest. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at India Gate on November 9 to demand government action; police detained more than a dozen people, and a follow-up protest later that month turned violent. The government's response has been largely cosmetic. Authorities deployed truck-mounted "smog guns" and "smog towers" that scientists widely regard as ineffective, and a cloud seeding trial in October failed outright. A senior environment minister told Parliament in December that no conclusive data linked pollution to lung disease -- a claim doctors sharply disputed. The government cut pollution control spending by 16% in the latest federal budget. Almost 1.7 million deaths were attributable to air pollution in India in 2019, according to the Lancet. A 2023 World Bank report estimated the crisis shaves 0.56 percentage point off annual GDP growth.

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16 Feb 2026 8:00pm GMT

Bottles 62.0, a Wine prefix manager for running Windows apps on Linux, introduces Dynamic Launcher portal support and adds detailed progress reporting for backups and restore operations.

16 Feb 2026 7:53pm GMT

Hollywood backlash puts spotlight on ByteDance's sketchy launch of Seedance 2.0.

16 Feb 2026 5:42pm GMT

KDE addresses misinformation about systemd requirements, stating Plasma remains usable on non-systemd systems.

16 Feb 2026 3:35pm GMT

Sparky Linux 8.2 brings KDE Plasma 6.3.6, Openbox 3.6.1, Xfce 4.20, and the newest packages from the Debian 13 repositories.

16 Feb 2026 2:14pm GMT