In 2026, the fastest way to launder an official talking point into “the internet is saying…” is not a press conference. It’s an anonymous meme account with a good GIF folder and a suspiciously fast trigger finger. That’s the uncomfortable premise of a new report from WIRED, which argues that a major pro-Trump X (formerly…
India’s AI Boom Is a User Land-Grab: Why Firms Are Sacrificing Near-Term Revenue (and What Happens Next)
India has become the world’s most enthusiastic downloader of generative AI apps—and the world’s most stubborn monetization puzzle. If you’re an AI company, the country looks like a dream: hundreds of millions of smartphone users, a young population, and a national ambition to become an AI powerhouse. If you’re a CFO, it looks like a…
AWS Expands Kiro’s Agentic AI: “Design-first” and “Bug Fix” Specs Aim for Higher-Quality Code (and Fewer 2 a.m. Incidents)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is doubling down on the idea that the best way to make AI-written code less chaotic is to give it fewer excuses to be chaotic. On February 24, 2026, DevOps.com reported that AWS extended its Kiro developer tool with two new capabilities designed to improve software quality: a Design-first specification and…
“Papers, Please” Goes Digital: How Age Verification Is Spreading Across the Internet (and What It Means for Privacy, Security, and the Open Web)
Somewhere between “Welcome back!” and “Accept all cookies,” the modern internet has found a new favorite prompt: “Prove you’re old enough to be here.” Age verification has been drifting around the edges of the web for years—mostly in the adult-content corners where pop-ups go to reproduce. But over the last couple of years, it’s started…
Antarctica’s Blood Falls: The Final Piece of the “Bleeding Glacier” Mystery—and Why the Answer Sounds Like Plumbing
On February 24, 2026, WIRED published a story with a wonderfully confident headline: “The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved.” The article, written by Simone Valesini (and credited by WIRED as translated from WIRED Italia), argues that scientists now have the missing physical mechanism that explains why the Taylor Glacier occasionally…
AWS Weekly Roundup (Feb 23, 2026): Claude Sonnet 4.6 Hits Bedrock, Kiro Lands in GovCloud, and Agent Plugins Start Shipping Your App for You
AWS has a particular talent for releasing enough updates in a single week to make even seasoned cloud architects briefly consider a career in artisanal breadmaking. The AWS Weekly Roundup for February 23, 2026 is one of those weeks: Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 arrives in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro expands into AWS GovCloud (US), AWS ships…
The Best Duffel Bags for 2026: What WIRED’s Road-Tested Picks Tell Us About Modern Travel Gear
There are two kinds of travelers in this world: those who pack with the calm precision of a mission control checklist, and those who stare at an open bag 20 minutes before leaving and whisper, “We can make this work.” For both camps, the humble duffel has become a minor miracle of modern travel: flexible…
Discord’s Persona Age-Verification Backpedal: What Really Happened, Why Users Revolted, and What Comes Next
Discord has a talent for turning a simple product change into a community-wide stress test. This month’s episode: a brief UK experiment with age-verification vendor Persona, a user backlash that escalated quickly, and Discord rapidly editing its own documentation to make it clear Persona is no longer involved. The story matters for a lot more…
The Future Is Modular: What a Decade of Running Kubernetes Teaches Us About Platform Engineering
Somewhere, right now, a platform team is doing what platform teams do best: opening a spreadsheet, listing “things developers need,” and then quietly realizing that the list contains everything from GPU scheduling and policy-as-code to “a button that makes Kafka happen.” That moment—equal parts ambition and mild dread—is exactly why modular platform thinking is having…
AI Testing Is “Priority #1”… Until You Ask Teams to Trust It: What Leapwork’s 2026 Survey Really Reveals
AI has officially reached the part of the hype cycle where every roadmap slide contains at least one of the following words: agentic, autonomous, or the ever-popular “end-to-end”. And yet, in software testing—where “end-to-end” has a habit of turning into “end-of-quarter panic”—teams are still hesitating. A new study from test automation vendor Leapwork, summarized in…