AI & RoboticsNews

AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: Faster, cheaper, lonelier

February 23, 2026
A Filipino man walks through the backyard of his childhood home in rural Hawai’i, his footsteps swooshing through the grass. Birds chirp, contributing to the tropical din, as he approaches a shrine at the base of a starfruit tree. He bends to inspect a framed black-and-white photograph of a woman, her hair in a 1950s side part. Suddenly, a gust of wind shakes the tree’s branches…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Kia is refreshing its new electric SUV with a major interior overhaul

February 23, 2026
The EV5, Kia’s new midsize electric SUV, is getting an overhaul. While the exterior already looks like an upgrade, the interior was spotted with an unexpected surprise. Kia EV5 SUV facelift spotted with new design and tech After launching the EV5 in China in 2023, Kia’s new electric SUV made its global debut in late 2025. Although it’s just rolling out across Europe, Korea, Canada…
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DefenseNews

How commercial drones make the Pentagon’s ‘Blue UAS Select’ list

February 23, 2026
The Defense Department this week began testing for the initial phase of its Drone Dominance Program, an effort to expand the use of commercial drones across the military. Dubbed “the Gauntlet,” military operators will fly and evaluate uncrewed aerial systems, or UASs, at Fort Benning, Georgia, to determine which of the 25 competing vendors will advance to the next phase of the…
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ComputersNews

Accio Lawyers! Microsoft manager trained AI on pirated Potter books

February 23, 2026
Oh, my. With “AI” systems causing a lot of problems pretty much everywhere, it’s a bad look for one of the world’s most important tech companies to actively promote piracy. But that appears to be just what happened, with a post hosted on Microsoft’s developer blog, actively using an apparently pirated set of Harry Potter novels to train an Azure-based “AI” system. “The Harry Potter…
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